(via aja)

Got to stage 1 in Dec 06 just before I left Tokyo. Succumbed to stage 2 in Jun 08 (@flowoflight) after seeing an exponential increase in users and thought that there must be something in it. There should be a stage 2A, where tweeting is just a means of logging personal things you find interesting or significant. Well that’s what I’m doing (for now).

Twitter can be many things, much more than I can list in 1 min: ultra-micro blogging; always-on open networking; a narcissistic ‘live-node’ feed; facebook status updates on steroids; pure info overload (would I read 100 tweets per hour or even more?).

Twitter is already ‘mainstream’ in my definition, it doesn’t feel like a mid-size community anymore. I tweet via sms and it feeds to my blog so it’s handy in that respect. Am I bored of it or have I just not explored its full potential yet? I suspect it’s the latter. There’s a lot more to the Twitterverse than meets the eye.

How do you even begin to harness its collective intellect? Need to spend a bit more time on this one.