Technomancy

[laliandra]

Recently several very different people have expressed Great Shock and something close to outrage at the fact that I do not have a twitter account.

Technically I do. I just wanted to make sure no one stole my name, and then ignored it.

SO. People of the internet. What is so good about this fancy 140 character phenomenon? Alternatively, is there any evidence that twitter is, in fact, the devil (oh ontd_ai , will I never tire of your in-jokes)?

I am ready to be swayed either way!

PS. Has anyone else noticed that the chorus of this

which is the theme from Andrew Lloyd Webber's catastrophe new musical Love Never Dies

is EXACTLY the as the chorus to this -

from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Beautiful Game.

I am annoyed and wish to share this with the internet.

Man, maybe I should get twitter.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I use Twitter to bookmark the fic that I have read and enjoyed (which people do insist on interpreting as fic recs), drop the kind of random bizarre link that I used to give IRC, make the sort of random bizarre statement that I used to make in IRC (the things that you would IM seven friends with and sort of hope someone wrote back, or announce one's presence to the Eternal Chat with), and carry out the sort of chatter one might have on IM but one might as well have in public.

Also sometimes what one had for lunch, and whether or not one has a sore throat, because this can be useful later.

I import mine (as you doubtless have seen) with a cut because I care. This is because I abhor the thought of my historical going undocumented.

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

I see, I see. You do make a compelling case. What if I wake up in 20 years and wish to know what I had for lunch...

[azurelunatic]

More along the lines of "oh fuck me, I really am lactose intolerant!" and "Oh right, the day withthe concert was the day after the lunch, not the same day."