Twitterers in the garden
If you think I'm writing about birds again, you're mistaken. This one's actually about technology.
I've been keeping up with since it arrived online. Not enough to actually tweet myself, you understand.聽 I'm well aware that no one really cares that at the moment I'm editing a 2,000-word article that's supposed to be 1,000 words long. Or that currently I'm trying to track down photos of Parma violets.
When Twitter started, that's what it was all about -- people popping up on a map all over the world and giving pithy descriptions of their current activities. (Melbourne, Australia: "I just got up. It's sunny.")
It's really expanded since then. (And if you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, I'll let personal technology guru David Pogue explain in 聽and a follow-up column, .)
But I was fascinated to learn that there are numerous active garden Twitters. Kathy Purdy of easily found almost 40 .
I shouldn't have been surprised, of course. It's another way to communicate, which is good, and it's obvious that it can be fun. But I often wonder who has the time to do all that, both frequent tweeting and following favorite Twitterers.
Mostly, it makes me feel guilty. I think I must not manage my time well. These folks garden and blog and Twitter and make a living and still have a life. I guess I'm a little jealous, but probably I'm just not gregarious enough.
Do you Twitter? About what? And why?
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