There’s been quite a bit of talk about Twitter over the last few days and I must admit … I don’t get it.

Much like many of the internet phenomenons, I don’t see much of a future for this … which means that Google is going to buy it shortly and it will be worth some stupid amount of money (YouTube was not, or will ever be, worth $1.65 Billion USD).  This just seems like “too much information”.

Maybe I’m just looking at it from the wrong perspective.  I see this as a “where am I now?” statement.

“I’m grocery shopping”
“I’m stuck at work while another beautiful day passes without me”
“Number two in the loo”

Does this matter to anyone?

I would think that anyone who wanted to know what we were doing would either call, or stay in touch regularily enough to know when we would attend a concert, or get stuck at some desk job.

From what I’ve seen, nobody can comment on a Twitter entry.  You can’t post pictures, either.  Heck, as we speak, I can’t even load the site for all the traffic it’s receiving.

If I’m completely wrong here, please leave a comment.  Though I must admit that even if it were possible to post comments or images, this would just seem to be a “mini-blog” entry…  and we already have blog software that can accept information sent via SMS Text Messages and email.

Maybe, like YouTube, Twitter is just a better marketed version of existing technology aimed at people who want to have a running list of “where am I?” messages to look back on.  But no matter how I try to wrap my head around it, I just cannot see any real future for this service.

P.S.:  Happy 50th, Dad!