Nateweb

This is the fourth web 2.0 company I’m talking about. If you haven’t already, read the introduction post here, or about the other services: flickr (for pictures) or last.fm (for music), del.icio.us (for bookmarks).

Twitter is a virtually useless and odd site. It just is a place where people send and receive micro-updates. Seriously, thats it. You can just IM a bot, and it updates your current status to be whatever you just IMed. Also, you can get updates from your friends/contacts IMed back to you. The website extends into the cellphoneland because you can get / send messages from your cellphone, but I have never used this feature.

It actually is a pretty interesting site. I have subscribed to very few people (really only bots that give updates on woot.com), but it is kinda nifty. It is just like facebooks “current status” feature. The only difference is that this can be sent from IM / cellphones (and this came first). Honestly if facebook offered the same functionality I’d probably ditch this, but then I don’t really know if I want to broadcast the information to my entire social network on facebook. I’d much rather the random strangers who might happen to come across my website.

That is really the only reason I use the service. See that “Currently” thing in the top right corner of the webpage? Well, that is my “current” twitter message. I like it because it means that to put a message on my website, all I have to do is IM something. Again it contributes to the illusion of content and updates on my website.

Sure view my page on twitter. See if I care. Username = hypn0toad