Twitter is mutating my brain.
I have sort of gone overboard on the Twittering. (And I don't even own an iPhone!)
Like futuretech guru Tim O'Reilly said it: I have simply found Twitter the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to.
(Incidentally, follow what O'Reilly is paying attention to at http://twitter.com/timoreilly.)
I have Twitter accounts established for me (@peterdurand); my business (@alphachimp); to follow practitioners of graphic facilitation (@graphicfacilit8); and, to push our research at Vanderbilt (@vcbh).
It serves as a shadow for my brain and keeps up with the way I work: swinging from virtual branch to branch without stopping. Fortunately, I am finding third party apps in the Twitter ecosystem to help me "lean into" productivity.
To hornswaggle all these accounts, I've discovered Twitterfeed and Tarpipes as ways to autotrigger Tweets--whether a blog post, a bookmark on del.icio.us, or a new piece of art submitted Durand Gallery--it is all streamed together in one cybergawking mash-up to my Facebook account (which I rarely visit these days). I use TweetDeck as a desktop app created in Adobe Air, that begins to serve as a hybrid email app and Tweet aggregator.
"Perhaps," it occured to me today, "I am over doing it."
For those who want to hear status updates from our less animated co-habitants, there is the Botanicalls kit, which offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone.