The Little Details Go Live

Posted At : March 16, 2009 8:57 AM | Posted By : Tom
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For those of you who need a more immediate and steady diet of the observational quackery that is The Little Details, you can now follow me on Twitter.

What, my parents ask, is Twitter? Basically it's The Little Details updated one bullet point at a time live from my phone. So instead of waiting a whole week, you can check in with me real-time.

If you're a Twitter user you can follow me @tomlommel.

If you're not, you can read the stream either here or here. No sign-in or membership required. :)

And don't worry, this will in no way replace or duplicate the regular Little Details entries.

-Tom, dispensing glib commentary 140 characters at a time.

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Wow, neat! It's like I'm in LA! But my eyes don't work. What's the weather like? Are you wearing sandals or shoes? I'm hungry. Are you hungry at the same time?
# Posted By DumpTruckofLove | 3/16/09 9:53 AM
I have made a vow never to tweet about what I'm eating for breakfast.

After all, if I do that, what photos will I put in my crappy blogs?
# Posted By Tom | 3/16/09 9:56 AM
Hmmphh. I wonder what Billy James has to say about this twitter stuff.
# Posted By Indy | 3/16/09 10:41 AM
Judging from what he's written lately, Billy James has been kidnapped and replaced by a 15 year-old girl with acne and a misplaced adoration of Sylvia Plath.
# Posted By Tom | 3/16/09 10:49 AM
Can you tweet about brunch? I need to know about your sliced melon consumption. For...reasons.
# Posted By Aric | 3/16/09 11:06 AM
Is it just me or does anyone else think that twittering is a sad, silly, little fad that people will be embarrassed to admit they participated in 5 years from now?
# Posted By Dave M. | 3/16/09 1:25 PM
I was skeptical, but it's just like blogging, only on a micro scale. I can do it instantly and easily. I don't have to sit down and bang away at my computer for two hours to come up with a whole page of content.

Now, like any OTHER kind of blogging: you can do it well, or you can be half-assed and lame about it. Ultimately, whether your blog/twitter feed/MySpace page/whatever is sad, silly, or embarrassing is up to you.
# Posted By Tom | 3/16/09 1:58 PM
Tweet tweet.
# Posted By elee | 3/16/09 2:56 PM
I wasn't really commenting on your tweets, Tom. You're a genuinely funny guy. Just Twittering in general. There was a time when polyester leisure suits were popular, even hip. I'm just observing that Twittering seems like a fad to me.
# Posted By Dave M. | 3/16/09 8:09 PM
All of this internet stuff is too ephemeral to really tell. Name something besides Amazon and eBay which has had legs. (And those two things are still here because they MAKE MONEY.)

Twitter helps me communicate in little doses and people can get as much or as little info as they need, wherever they want it (phone, webpage, whatever). So in that sense, it offers OTHER functionality. (Unlike MySpace which was really just another personal portal ala Friendster ala GeoCities, blah blah blah...) Until someone replicates or integrates Twitter functionality better, and in a device-agnostic way, I think it has some legs.

But who knows. At one time 8-track tapes were a popular format.
# Posted By Tom | 3/16/09 8:50 PM
Just letting you know that some people, like me, are reading your tweets via the internet, and we do not have nor want a Twitter account (yet). So remember that more people are reading your tweets than is represented by your "follower" number.
# Posted By DumpTruckofLove | 3/17/09 7:17 AM
Yeah, I don't expect anyone to sign up just to read my tweets. (That's completely unnecessary.)

Thanks for following along...
# Posted By Tom | 3/17/09 9:33 AM
Well, you tweeted a shout-out to all your new "followers," and I felt excluded. Evidently "follower" is jargon for someone with a Twitter account who has subscribed to someone's tweets, and I merely read your tweets on the internet.

So I'm wondering, if I'm not your "follower," then what am I? A minion? A lackey?

Hey, "lacky" sounds cool. Is lackey good?

How about a shout-out to all your new lackeys, Tom? We also need love. If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you amuse us, do we not laugh?
# Posted By DumpTruckofLove | 3/17/09 10:12 AM
I prefer "2nd-level footpad."
# Posted By Tom | 3/17/09 10:37 AM
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