All day haiku

I decided to log on to Twitter, the new  package that allows you to microblog all day long.  Is this another vehicle for inane drivel or are we sighting the first  instances of all day online diaries: the fusion of public and personal in a vanguard commentariat.

The website is easy to log on to and register. Once signed in, it is a matter of clicks to assign an update to my weblog, so that a rolling bar will show my twitter alongside my more "substantial" entries.

The whole point of the program is that you are not updating a diary, but that the entries form part of a wider social networking circle. When that does not exist, due to that lack of twits (twitterers?) amongst your friends, and archaic work conditions, then the alternative is the lifelog, of which this is a potential iteration. 

Even if the entries are ephemera, they will become the repository of wit, observation and future Dr. Johnsons amongst the small horizons of these in-crowds. Twitter strengthens the bonds of the social network and ensures that falling out will be explosive and divisive when it occurs.

Maybe I shall stick to formless haiku.