What’s the point?
One of the things that surprised me when I was at SxSW Interactive last year was how all these people, who’s generally personally and professionally invested in “new media,” practically lived and breathe Twitter. While most of my friends, generally considered to be normal everyday people, never heard of it (at the time, it seems yet even more ubiquitous now). I can kind of understand why. A regular person probably looks at something like Twitter and says, “What’s the point?” It’s true that it doesn’t seem like much at first, but it was like my first experience with MySpace when it just got off the ground. I signed up, but I knew no one on it at that time, and thought “What’s the point?” Once you get a small network of friends on it, it’s appeal becomes much more apparent.
ANYWAYS, I said all that to say this: here is a neat little video explaining Twitter in Plain English. I think it’s part of a series of videos that explain web phenomenons to regular people (which, clearly us internet people are NOT).
