jwdunn

Twitter: Cooler than Facebook Status

I guess I’m a sucker for simplicity, because I really do like Twitter. Unlike Facebook and MySpace which bombard you with content and means of communication, Twitter has only one feature: record what you’re doing. For example, see my twitter page.

You can keep track of what your buddies are up to by “following” their Twitter pages, and even carry on little conversations by preceding your “tweets” with their usernames.

I’ve never really used Facebook’s status field much, and AIM away messages aren’t really my thing, but for some reason Twitter seems like it could be really cool. The problem, of course, is that nobody I know uses it. So, if you’re reading this, go get a Twitter account and try it out.

Twitter is fairly popular amongst the web-savvy community at large, but I’d like to see its simple design and interface compete with other community-based sites that I feel are adding too many features too fast. Facebook applications are great, but, to be honest, a lot of them are just abominations that make finding anything on my friends’ pages unnecessarily difficult.

While I’m at it, I may as well mention Twitterriffic, a really slick little OS X app that will let you tweet and follow others’ tweets from your desktop.