Canada has always been slow on the technology front, and Twitter acceptance is no different. I've setup my Twitter Updates to update my Facebook status because I can't be bothered to login to FB everyday. I don't know if I'll keep this up, but if anything, I'm spreading the Twitter word. The truth is, 90% of my friends still don't know what Twitter is. Twitter is the 405th ranked site in Canada, and 250th in the US according to Alexa.

Honestly when I first heard of Twitter in May (rather late I admit), I thought, who cares what you're having for lunch? Who cares where you're having coffee? That's what sites like Loopt are for. That's why I avoided it until late this summer. You can do fine without Twitter, as Seth Godin continues to show, however he is aware of it and realizes its power. But there is value in Twitter for networking, self-marketing, news, connecting consumers (as in the much sited Motrin revolt), and a whole slew of other things I haven't event thought of. I get half my news now through Twitter, from users such as Dosh Dosh, Mahalo's Jason Calacanis and EpicFu's Zadi Diaz.

I'm doubtful that I will ever meet any of these people I follow, and I can only wish to have half of the knowledge and experience they have, but I read their tweets everyday and learn from them. The masses watch American Idol. The masses are brainwashed by local newspapers to fear. The masses don't know what RSS is. The masses make Lezberado Revenge Fantasies, Akon, Rihanna, SpongeBob and the Potter Puppet Pals appear on YouTube's all-time most viewed list. It's one thing to go on Digg and see what the masses are reading, but its completely different to have the tool to find people with a similar mentality and motivations, and then have the ability to get inside their brain for a few seconds a day.

And that is why I tweet.

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