Planet Moron Now on Twitter, Just Like The Cool Kids...

When we first signed up for Twitter a few months ago we hadn’t exactly figured out how we were going to use it.  Promotion?  Announcements?  Drunken rants?  Promotional announcements in the form of drunken rants? 

Let’s just say we are to planning what Timothy Geithner is to, well, planning.

Twitter, while basically just a short-message service, was originally created as a means for telling people what you are doing at any given point in time.  This aspect didn’t particularly appeal to us, as we don’t much like telling people what we are doing.  First, it just opens them up to being subpoenaed, and second, no one really wants to know. (“I’m eating a Rice Krispies marshmallow treat I found under some magazines!”)

While we were pondering how to use Twitter, readers slowly started to discover the account we set up and so we’ve started issuing “tweets.” “Tweets” is the official term given to twitter posts.  Yes, they could have just called them “posts,” but then you wouldn’t feel like a complete idiot calling them “posts” would you? (This reminds us of college when you had to say out loud when ordering a certain favored late-night meal, “I’d like a super-double Wuvburger.” And yes, such a place existed. Others remember it, if few in number.)

While we still don’t know exactly how this will go, some of our tweets will likely be in the form of the aforementioned “drunken rants,” (it’s really just how the math works) but because Twitter limits tweets to 140 characters (including spaces) there is a chance that through truncation, these might go something like this:

i'm walking into this bar, right? and the bouncer says to me, hey is that a chicken under your arm? so i look him straight in the eye and sa

We also hope to be doing short observations, jokes, and, given the character limit, pretty much anything for those of you suffering from severe attention deficit disorder. 

If, for whatever reason (Lost a bet?  On a dare? Believe Instant messaging isn’t impersonal enough?) you would like to follow our tweets, just sign up at Twitter, search for “planetmoron,” and click on the “follow” link. (Or go straight to the Planet Moron Twitter page.)

Twitter: Wasting your time in shorter increments than ever thought possible!

J.