Is Twitter Basically Made So Ordinary People Can Creep Celebrities?

nah, i get free stuff from it too.

And so that the celebrities can creep you!

but no, not in my opinion

Nope- it is a network of meercats that pop up, say a sentance and pop back down.

Nah—but if you don’t know people on Twitter, I can see how you would get that impression. I bet this question has a sibling that has all of us talking about who we are on Twitter. Then you can follow us and we’ll follow you and you get a new set of friends.

No. I’d hazard to guess that most of the people on twitter are following people they know on some reciprocal level or another.

I don’t see the appeal in Twitter, really. I don’t really care what people are doing every second of the day. It’s an entire website dedicated to Facebook Status updates. Facebook Statuses are good enough for me…at least they aren’t updated all the time (not by most people I know, at least).

@Dansedescygnes I know what you mean – I use Facebook primarily, but I like Twitter too. Some of the people I follow there are really interesting, and really funny. And maybe you could say I’m creeping a few celebrities – Shaq is damn funny – but would you call David Allen a celebrity? Tim Ferriss? Deepak?

Here’s a great article in the NYT about what the social networking phenomenon is all about. Its message shifted how I see what I’m doing there. I hope someone reads it – it’s so good.