cooking up the offense like he's cooking ravioli

In case you haven’t been following the internet this last week, twitter exploded at SXSW. As a result, I think it became blog-law that you had to make a post about how much you love/hate/don’t understand twitter. I don’t see the need to update the world with my every action, but I do see value in using twitter’s various distribution channels.

One area I see promise for twitter is in the micro-announcements from other web services. For example, I just created a Swap-bot twitter account that gets updated every time a new swap is created. Other twitter members can follow Swap-bot and choose how they want to be updated when Swap-bot updates. I can choose to get an IM, SMS or just a web update. Posting to twitter is just one more way I can hopefully get new people to Swap-bot or remind old members to come back.