It’s official: I no longer find Twitter to be a waste of interweb-space.  I quote from one of my blog entries in April: “Twitter? What purpose does it serve? One-liners describing pointless moments of one’s mundane existence? Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of clarity via text?”

Now I can confidently say I disagree with myself.  My initial issue was this: what could I possibly tweet about that would warrant a textual communication for the world to see?  Typically, when I get a hankerin’ for spilling my pointless thoughts on the internet, I venture out to this blog. I think a total of three people read it anyway, so what do I care if my stories/entries are lame to the masses?  I write knowing my loyal readers will appreciate my decisive utterances no matter what.

(Note: I saw a shirt a few months back that simply said, “Nobody reads your blog” on the front.  I can relate … but, in the same breath, I don’t really give a damn. I write in this piece to get my writing fix. That is all.)

So back to Twitter. I don’t know when this transformation occurred, but suddenly I see, just like that nerdy KT Tunstall song.  I now think I understand this Twitter-hype, and why I find myself to be suddenly twitter-pated if you will. 

It all begins with news. International, US, local, entertainment, technology: you name it, I’m informed instantaneously via Blackberry device updates.  Additionally, although I’m not the FIRST to know, I jumped on this twitter-wagon before most of my friends, and have therefore suddenly become the news-barer of sorts.  I kind of feel like Baron Munchausen (in The Adventures of …): “Remarkable. Unbelievable. Impossible. And true.” I am the news junkie. The news guru. I’m all over it.  

Here’s an example of a typical every-day occurrence now that I tweet:

“Say, Kristi: What’s going on in Entertainment today?”

“Oh, hi extremely hot and intelligent man who came out of nowhere, let me check out my latest Tweets so I can brief you accurately.”

“Great. Wow, you’re so tech-savvy.  And informed.  Also, nice bangs. Can I take you out for some cotton candy some time?”

“Why yes, yes you can. I’m actually going to tweet about this right now, if you don’t mind.  Excuse me.”

And that’s that.