I apparently now have over 100 followers on Twitter. I know that number isnt big compared to some folk out there but it still is very interesting to me. Let me explain…

Firstly I joined the twitterverse(cant believe thats a term now) well before the hay days of twitter (ie before it was mentioned on tv and newspapers). It was Sid who introduced me to the SMS style micro blogging interface. At first I simply did not care to try it well enough, I was(and am still) very happy with macro blogging in this space :P During that period when ever I heard the mention of Twitter I thought “Ok that thing, thank you but I will pass”.

When twitter did become big, I relogged in to check what the hoopla was about. There was some exitement to reading celebrity tweets but the realization that it wasnt as awesome as projected came all too fast. It even reached a point where I simply stopped following few ppl coz they just dont stop talking :P

Then came the phase where my friends were all on twitter for some reason. Twitter looked all set to replace IM and group mails… I thought ok lets give it another look. This time there seemed to be something happening, it was easier to stay in touch with my friends but I still wasnt comfortable with this way of communicating.

For a while I even used twitter as a pseudo link to my friend feed as it would automatically post into FF. But even that thrill went down considering that it seemed like too much spam :P

Given a choice I would any day prefer to write in my blog about an event/incident than tweet it. I guess I cant express myself in 140 characters :P

So eventually I never really became a twitter user, yet people continued following me (ok there are a decent no of spam bots but most are ppl I know) The only thing this has done is prevented me from trashing the account entirely. But that idea keeps visiting me… So if one of these days I aint around on twitter, check my blog :P