please empty your brain below
18,775,506 which makes me a teenage adopter I think, as opposed to your toddler adopter.

ganching | Homepage | 10.12.11 - 8:09 a.m. | #

I got into twitter back in 2008 when I bought my first iphone. I find it fantastic, that you can hear the ideas and emotions of random people.
Some of the people I follow, Stephen Fry (actor), Terry Moore (artist/Writer), Amber Benson (Writer), and a Diamond Geezer (Blogger extraordinary)

Michael | 10.12.11 - 8:41 a.m. | #

I only signed up on Wednesday as my son had gone on a school trip to Germany and I wanted to reply to a couple of their Tweets. And since then over two and a half MILLION people have joined!

Is it me, or is your last Tweet still to happen?

allotmentqueen | 10.12.11 - 8:54 a.m. | #

I do follow you on Twitter and you do tweet interesting things, more than occasionally, although the "interest" factor is affected by prior knowledge of your blog and your approach to life. I work from Tweetdeck with the direct messages column open, so all DMs are received promptly; my phone also alerts me to a new message. That's not really very interesting, is it....

Waterhouse | 10.12.11 - 8:54 a.m. | #

I am probably very odd but I don't get "Twitter" at all. Facebook is in the same category. Quite why people feel the need to broadcast every last detail of their lives, often without thought for the consequences, is beyond me.

PC | 10.12.11 - 9:39 a.m. | #

Never heard of it.

jerym | 10.12.11 - 10:43 a.m. | #

Twitter's definitely been quite different from how I expected it to be. To me it feels like a conversation in a vast pub full of friends, acquaintances and strangers. Sometimes you're just chatting with friends, sometimes you're earwigging someone else's conversation, sometimes you make a joke and the whole room laughs, sometimes it's a lot of people droning on about some telly programme you'd never watch. Either way, as someone who works from home it's a bit like having people around you and a conversation to dip in and out of - oh and it's brilliant for those niggly questions that Google doesn't seem able to answer.

disgruntled | Homepage | 10.12.11 - 11:33 a.m. | #

I find Twitter's greatest news for me is as a live news service. e.g. If I hear about a big fire or something in a nearby area, then I'll put relevant search terms into www.twitscoop.com and watch all the relevant tweets, some with links to photos and videos of the action. Quite often I can see the news happening before even the BBC reports on it.
The problem however is people retweeting without thought. I'll often be aware that Holborn station has been shut due to a fire alert, but the retweets may go on for hours after the event has finished.

Steve | 10.12.11 - 12:06 p.m. | #

@allotmentqueen:- Two and a half million people sounds fairly normal. Two and a half people, on the other hand, would be a bit weird.

FWIW, I don't (Tweet/Twitter). I'm at an age where I see people doing all kinds of things with their smart phones, with a certain envy that they obviously still have the eyesight to see what's on those tiny little screens.

RogerW | 10.12.11 - 12:56 p.m. | #

Thank you for the link. I always tend to think, when I see the number of tweets I've written in five years (joined 8 December 2006, thanks to Gert, I've since discovered) that it's far too many and I should really go out and get a life. But then I see other people who joined in late 2009 (and you're right, there was a definite slow-burn going on in those three years - I wonder why Twitter use suddenly exploded?) who have managed over 40,000 or 50,000 tweets and I think they must never be off the bloody thing. And then I don't feel so bad.

I think you probably *do* Twitter the right way, if I'm honest. Because you don't tweet much, I tend to notice yours more amongst the deluge. And unlike most of us, you've also managed to keep your blog going rather than just give it all up to the blessed tweet.

An Unreliable Witness | Homepage | 10.12.11 - 1:35 p.m. | #

I'm with PC!
I tried to get into Facebook, but all I was doing was reading about the minutae of others lives, so decided to go and live my own instead.
And I don't carry my ancient, very basic mobile with me 99.9% of the time either. I can live without being contactable 24/7 thank you very much!

CornishCockney | 10.12.11 - 3:11 p.m. | #

ID: 149271349

Not bad I suppose...

Rob | 10.12.11 - 5:14 p.m. | #

I love Twitter, way more than Facebook. I'm 613603, which puts me at the beginning of 2007, a year or two before the flood, and 554 days before Stephen Fry joined.

I love the fact I can see what people I like think and have to say, both celebrities and friends. I love the fact it is a live news source. I love the random conversations and campaigns that appear from nothing. And I keep in touch with loads of people I wouldn't manage to otherwise.

Yay for Twitter!

Kirk | 11.12.11 - 12:27 p.m. | #

Hmm, I appear to be the 19,471,436th Twitterer, and I have been on the site for 50.22% for its existence and before 95.42% of all other Twitter users. It seems I may have just missed Twitter's stone age, but I certainly joined when its Roman Empire was being built…

Andrewh | Homepage | 11.12.11 - 10:28 p.m. | #

I loyally follow, DG, even though I'm sure I miss at least half of your rare tweets due to time zone differences.

I joined in November 2008, number 17250166 in line. I now have a somewhat split personality because I'm now also responsible for the work Twitter account. Which means I've only occasionally made the mistake of tweeting something personal and biting from the corporate account, and something 'correct' from the personal one...

Rose | Homepage | 13.12.11 - 9:06 a.m. | #

It's 23:18 and you still haven't tweeted the last one yet. Wakey wakey!

swirlythingy | Homepage | 15.12.11 - 11:18 p.m. | #

I too have been wondering what happened to that 15 Dec tweet, but I thought I was not sufficiently alert to interpret the clue correctly - that's usually the reason :)

Great Aunt Annie | 16.12.11 - 7:18 p.m. | #

I haven't been forcibly upgraded to New Twitter yet, that's why.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.12.11 - 11:16 p.m. | #

I hate New Twitter, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it (and repeat, every time they do it) (10 Feb 12)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.02.12 - 7:03 a.m. | #











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