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http://twitter.com/thrillerverse

It’s not even that I joined Twitter because all my friends are doing it (barely anyone uses it), the unbelievable media hype (unbelievably lame and uncool), nor did I join because of the “Get Hired Because of Twitter” articles my mother keeps emailing me. I joined because it was raining and I was bored.

So I have heard and understand the personal benefits to myself: bite-broadcasting my creative and (other) output so that people interested can learn more about me and hire me, date me, or at least make me famous. But I still hated Twitter and its very premise. I even cursed Twitter’s treacherously cutesy web 2.0 name as I signed up….

OHHH but wow i’m a-d-d-i-c-t-e-d

Just looking at my “following” list and seeing the many famous faces that I almost, maybe could interact with a few individuals who have personally influenced me is very exciting. What delicious riff will Michael J. Nelson deliver next? Or what new project will Peter Serafinowicz share? Or Brent Spiner? I can see the appeal of Twitter now – it is the thin plastic glass separating us “regular people” from the “celebrities” or people we admire. We don’t interact, and there are way more of us on this side of the glass – but they’re in the same room as us, and if you keep tapping and holding funny things up to the glass, someone on the other side will have to notice one day.