I was playing around with the status service Twitter the other day. I’ve known about it for a while, though hadn’t signed up until recently. Basically, it’s a quick and easy way to inform your friends (or whomever else, for that matter) of what you’re up to, or alternatively check on their status (all of which can be done via IM, text message, or through the site itself). As the site puts it:

Consider Twitter the medium between your friends and yourself; we just relay the information.

Aside from its convenient intended uses, I think an interesting aspect of the site is the many ways in which you could adapt it to fit your needs. You could this by simply being creative (read: makeshift link/tumblelog–hey, that’s a good idea), or by utilizing software that makes use of Twitter’s API. One interesting use of Twitter that I’ve seen is syndicating your blog’s feed through the service, with each Twitter update being a new item in the feed.

Twitter’s been fun to use so far and is really quite a good idea, if not, heh, a bit stalker-friendly (though you can set your profile to only be viewable by friend). I’ll have to see how my use pans out, though, and typically my litmus test is whether I still use it throughout the course of one week when I have other things to do than play around with status updaters and other fun time-wasters!