I've recently become a Twitterer (in the sense of using Twitter, not the standard definition of "1. To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup. 2. a. To speak rapidly and in a tremulous manner: twittering over office gossip. b. To giggle nervously; titter. 3. To tremble with nervous agitation or excitement.).
I joined because I wanted to make sure no one else got my name: I can be plain old "andrewfarrow", as I am on Skype (andrew.farrow). No need to be andrewfarrow2345. I'd been reading a lot about Twitter in the papers, and I was curious about it as a communication tool. I do tend to jump on to bandwagons (Facebook, Skype). Not as they start rolling, but before they're careening along. I usually send out a tweet a day, usually on some deep thought to fit my 140 character limit.
Today I learnt from a BBC Ouch tweet that twittering might help, amongst others, people who have a high spinal cord injury: "The Brain-Twitter project...is based on the idea that paralysed people can send messages on Twitter by thinking about it, using electrical impulses. Read about it here. It's intriguing.
[Postscript. Does Johnathon Ross - @wossy - read my blog? He's just sent out a tweet thus: "I twit therefore I twam"]
