Do you use Twitter? How much do you use Twitter?

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To be honest, I didn't even know what Twitter was until reading the RSS feed (Geek & Poke cartoon) about @Oprah...

I'm weird...I dislike it when people know what I'm doing...so I don't ever intend to have a Twitter account

I was watching Larry King the other day and Jimmy Fallon, Ashton Kutcher and Puff Daddy (or whatever the hell he calls himself nowadays) was on and they were talking about Twitter I think...and then Larry King said he had a Twitter account as did Oprah and then there was talk that Barrack Obama would probably start using it too.

I first learned about Twitter from a computer geek friend last year, but for months, I didn't get it and thought nothing of it. I then followed him a while and saw that his posts were mostly about computers, so I started participating. Now I follow people who have mostly similar interests to mine and I also follow some news sources. I would say about 90% of the tweets I follow are professional and not personal. If people post too much about themselves or tweet too many times, say more than 10 times a day, I no longer follow them. It seems like just in the last few months the mainstream media is falling over themselves to talk about Twitter and that is annoying, but in my case, I use it as a tool to learn more about computers.

No one (except my wife) needs to know that much about my life. We're slowly letting technology invade our privacy under the guise of "social networking"

Twitter is NOT just for posting what you are doing.

I use it to keep track of News, Events and other items or people im interested in.

When there is Breaking News on CNN they send it out as a tweet and it goes directly to my Phone as a text message.

You can also make your "Tweets" private to only those people you allow to follow your tweets. So you can create an account for you your spouse and your kids. And you can send one text message from your phone and it can automatically goto all your family and/or friends.

I really cannot think of a use for it relevant to me.