@roosto

It was waaay back in Aprilish of the aught eight that I joined twitter. I found it odd, I thought it was silly, I was very skeptical. But this girl I was just starting to date used it and liked it, and I wanted to impress her, so it goes. My first few tweets were styled in the fashion of a facebook update "Roosto … [verb] [adjective/adverb] [verb/noun] [clever something]"—I got over this quickly.

Many things have been said about twitter. Some good, some bad. One of the main critiques is that it places too much import on the trivial, "I don't care what you had for breakfast!" I think that this can actually lead to a greater knowing of someone. The little mundane details of daily life are no replacement for the broadstrokes, but when coupled together you learn things about people you never knew before.

I try not to make my updates to twitter a "life cast". While they are most often inspired by events in my daily life I attempt to put a humorous angle on them, to use the words of the late, great @favrd, "[I] think of Twitter as a place to amuse, inspire and entertain."

Twitter Links

One of the best things about twitter is its widely, often cleverly used API—you know Web 2 point Oh Yeah is how they do. There are a ton of awesome sites that pool everyone's resources together to make things that are very cool and more than the sum of their parts.

@roosto (that's me!): This is "my Twitter". There are many like it, but this one is boring.
favrd: Alas, poor [@]Favrd—I knew him… (h/t: @shauninman & @stevewhitaker [I know not which is canonical, but both are excellent on their own merits])
When one opted in it tracked one's favorited tweets & your own tweets favorited by others. T'was sort of a best of twitter. It's been succeeded by favstar, most famously. The other successor is tweeteorites. Tweeteorites is sadly less heralded, but really more true to the original form of favrd.
twitterbelle (by @poeks): Tracks whom you favorite the most. This should, in theory, roughly indicate whom you might recomend others to follow.
n00bs (as tweeted by @tehawesome): I have never run this search query and not found recent results. Yes, Henry, it brings me curious joy too.