My other half is a librarian, and she's been using Twitter for a couple of years now. She keeps telling me that it's the wave of the future and it's where the kids are at. I'm not so sure. The few times I've looked at what people are "tweeting" about, it always looks something like:

coffeedrinkingfool136 I'm drinking coffee!!
posted at 6:45 AM
mood: barely awake

coffeedrinkingfool136 RT: I'm still drinking coffee!! I just put some sugar in it!!
posted at 6:46 AM
mood: buzzed

coffeedrinkingfool136 @thedudeabides @bobgnarley hey i'm in the shower now!!
posted at 6:48 AM
mood: naked

That being said, I'm kind of curious as to why bands that I like and respect are now using Twitter to promote themselves. Our friend Erik (Mischief Brew) now has a Twitter account. Check their MySpace blog for a pretty funny little bit he wrote about it. All this technology changes so quick and it's hard to know what's worth keeping up with and what's not. I mean, none of the members of this band even had a cell phone for the first two or three tours we did. Shit, I had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to payphones to call promoters...and I was glad to do it, too.
I'm joking, of course (although I did meet an older punker on tour at one point who told me he used to have a tape recording of the sound of quarters going into a payphone...he somehow used it to scam free calls and he booked most of his band's tours that way).

The only practical application I see for something like this is to announce shows when they're booked, and I already do that with those little "status updates" on MySpace. When we're actually on the road, it does make sense to be able to send out updates about when or where we're playing, especially if something changes at the last minute.

So, I'm going to leave this account up through the next tour we're doing of the Midwest. We'll see how it goes. Maybe I'll become a Twitter convert.

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-Doug