I tweet too much. I know, it’s not a good use of my time. I should be reading “War and Peace” instead. In the original Russian.
But I like Twitter. It feeds my need for serendipity and I’ve met interesting people in real life that I would not have met without Twitter.
So let’s examine the idea that Twitter is a way of peering into someone’s brain and learn what they’re thinking about. I decided to sample the last 24 hours of my tweetstream. Last night and today, you would have read about (in alphabetical order):
- ADHD
- Allergies
- Alternative Minimum Tax
- Beaches
- Benghazi
- Bluetooth 4.0
- C.S. Lewis
- Citywide Wi-Fi
- Credit card fraud
- Dementia
- Dunbar’s number
- EU consumer protection
- Geography of innovation
- Georgia economic growth
- Global warming
- Google Glass
- Graf Zeppelin
- Health care policy
- Hemingway
- iPhone peripherals
- IRS
- Kindle books
- National Geographic
- Photography
- Politics
- Poverty
- Rocket engines
- Second Amendment
- Semiconductor manufacturing
- Skynet
- Solar flares
- South America
- Star Trek
- Street festivals
- Transit policy
- Watchmaking
Yeah, that sounds about right.
