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Now I’ll be the first one to admit. I didn’t get Twitter at first and in some ways I still don’t get it. I made fun of it constantly with Jeff and thought videos that made fun of it were hilarious. It just seemed ridiculously trivial to me.

So a brief history, I first started using Twitter wayyy back when only a few people were on it. It was like talking into an echo chamber and got really boring fast. No real friends used it, so the 5 people I followed didn’t matter that much. After about a week of giving it an honest go, I went back to using Facebook statuses like a normal human being. But, after about two nights of prodding by Jason a couple weeks ago, I decided to give it another go around.

One week later, I noticed that a good amount of my tech savvy friends were actually using it this time. Instantly, it became 10x the experience I had before. I cared about what people were posting because I had more of a connection with the group of friends. Finally, it had a meaning for me.

It especially became useful during this year’s SXSW. Instead of texting and trying to figure out what parties friends were going to, I ended up checking the feed to see what was going on. You could instantly observe things as a group instead of trying to piece together individual conversations.

So now I tweet (is that a word?) about 3 times a day and add my friend feed to my personal rss reader to know what’s going on. What has the world come to.

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