Good Times for Twitter

It doesn’t bother me in the least that I’m not an early adopter. I have friends that got the iPod way before it was cool and sold the very first model, upgraded a couple of times, before I even ordered mine.

So when the Twitter craze took hold, I snuck a peek but it never seemed ‘all of that’. The fact that I wrote ‘all of that’ is probably reflective of where I am on the trends bandwagon. However, I do have to take pause and say who would have thought tweeting that you just woke up and are making plans for lunch would be part and parcel of another social networking juggernaut.

Okay, there's cynicism there but on reading dozens of articles recently about Twitter I've found that amazing things do occur on that network. Namely, discussing strategy on tumor surgery, solving crimes, reporting on breaking news, relaying consumer opinion and providing useful and timely information besides what the lineup is like at the grocery store.

Even the Web hosting industry is actively participating. Hivelocity is sending tweets on server specials and UK's DediPower is hosting a popular Twitter aggregator site that is ahead of its time.

Am I too late to the party? Hardly. It was just reported by comScore that Twitter grew 131 percent in March 2009 to 9.3 million US visitors. That's a jump of 5 million from February. I guess pondering which variety of red wine to buy might make for some good tweets. Maybe not.