The roundup

Remember this? My Twitter experiment?

The roundup, friend, was that I quite enjoyed it. How nice to be able to rely on entertainment in my Twitter stream. How entertaining. It was a bit of a giveaway that I a) knew when to expect tweets and b) knew the plot and characters. But still, I enjoyed its execution as much as its composition.

On the downside, I felt the characterisation to be a bit thin, and timing of tweets to be a bit dubious. It was tough timing the tweets to work with the plot—and the likely schedules of human beings—in real time. But you know. Something to work on and all.

Why don't more people write little Twitter stories to entertain us? I know there are people out there who use the service simply to identify trends (yawn), but who cares? There are others out there -- people who long for a glimmer of fun and a few thrills, who would love to have a good story injected at unpredictable intervals into their everyday lives. These people would love to follow a Twitter story, wouldn't they?

Well? Wouldn't they?

Yeah, maybe it's just me.