Monday
Nov122007
Top 10 Reasons Why I'm Twittering Again
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 8:21AM 
10. I'm not hip enough for Pownce.
9. I've finally trained myself to write Twitter instead of TWiTter.
8. Alex King's Twitter Tools for Wordpress mean my Tweets become part of my blog and no longer evaporate.
7. I miss my San Francisco digerati A-list friends.
6. Jaiku is now Gooku and invite only.
5. How else am I going to find out what Merlin is up to?
4. It's not about functionality, it's about family.
3. iJustine said she would follow me.
2. All the cool kids are doing it.
and the number 1 reason why I'm Twittering again...
Scoble must be stopped!
Reader Comments (45)
Welcome back to Twitter Leo. You won't regret becoming a part of the great family of twitter.
It's great to see you back on Twitter, Leo. It's been far too long.
Okay, number 1 cracked me up :)
Scoble don't need to be stopped. Look at his stats:
Stats
* Following 6,932
* Followers 6,892
A geek celebrity who is following more people than follows him?
I'm not fluent in lamertalk but I think the appropriate term is luser?
I think Kev took reason #1 a little too much to heart. HE"S WEARING A TIE ON POWNCE.
Not enough time in the day for me to even think about using twitter. Going to stick to using this blog for updates on things and leave it at that.
So happy to see you back. :) I've missed your tweets!
Twitter? I don't see it's point at all unless you're a celeb and want everyone to know when you take a shower etc... Lately it's all micro blog overdose! It's too much info about things most people don't want to or need to know. I deleted pownce, jaiku and twitter as all it seemed to be was a lazy persons email and people always directing you to something on their blog or site. I think the internet is missing it's point lately, instead of refining and enhancing communication it's dumbing it down. I'm jumping off the bandwagon.
But...but...but...what about the legal issues with TWiT vs Twitter. What happened there? Wasn't that the reason you pulled the ejection cord on twitter in the first place?
-confused
I signed up for it six months ago and I think I've posted four messages.
After seeing Alex King's WP plugin, I think I might start using it for the tumblelog.
When you stopped, I stopped, now that your're on so am I Love what you do to help us Leo! keep it up. Twitterisms again yeah....
Thats so funny that you're going back to twitter as I was only thinking about this the other day. I used to love the simple updates and being able to make new friends without a lot of effort. Now that you are back I think I will have to come back too.... HAHA!!! Here comes the twit army again!!!!
Keep up the good work
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Well in your absence I have had a ton of fun on twitter. I am very glad to have you back on. Its funny how things that were important and tools change over time. Every tool has its own use and twitter is not going away. I still think pownce is cool and will get cooler once they get their API figured out. Until then I will play with them all :)
Oh and we have many of the same friends. If I was cool enough to be your friend on jaiku cant I be cool enough to be your friend on twitter :) http://twitter.com/ChristianBurns
Yay. Back on Twitter. Wish I could get it to work on my Treo.
+1 for MoodBlast2 -- it's awesome. it's like an Adium/Pidgin for presence sites. Support them all!
i must be thick. i just don't get twitter.
Leo, its Fabulous your back. I tried following on Jaiku but it was just a little to many conversations and content in the streams for me. On twitter its a conversation and a link. Easy !
Good to see you back
Nik ( Loudmouthman ) Butler
Great to hear this!
I actually "heard" about TwiT when you left Twitter...
I've listened to some of your shows since then, and I'm glad to see you back on Twitter! It is the best of its kind! :)
PS: Point 3, 2 and 1 are absolutely hilarious! ;p hehe