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A couple of weeks back Odeo launched twttr, a service for keeping in contact with friends through text messaging on your cell phone. It’s crack if you have a cell phone and like people. You could get a taste by reading my entries or seeing my entries in the context of my friends

twttr is now the ONLY way I keep in contact with people. Some people would say twttr is just a way to send text messages to a group of friends. I guess that’s accurate, although it doesn’t touch on the effect it’s had on my life. I now hear what my little sister is up to 5 times a day. We used to see each other once a month in order to ask each other, “What’s up?” and find out, “Not much.” That’s pretty much the same story for everyone in my twttr circle.

twttr is the only way that people find out what I’m up to. I’m possibly the most uncommunicative friend ever. Hopefully I make up by being insanely happy to see old friends. The only people who know what I’m doing are on twttr.

twttr compensates for my utter inability to engage in small talk. Whenever people ask me what’s going on I usually can’t remember. Seriously. Now people come up to me and ask something along the lines of “were you just in New York?” or “what’s up with the road rage?” That sort of prompting is a life saver. twttr status updates are by nature extremely cryptic so there’s always plenty of details to fill in once you make it to a real conversation.

Here’s a quick tutorial on getting started with twttr. Sign up here. Add some friends. Up your text messaging plan. When you get started think of it as all-day-journaling from your cell phone.

I’m pretty much mystified by the Techcrunch review and following comments, that group text messaging has already been done (successfully?), that twttr can’t be monetized (users are in contact with the system 10-50 times per day), and that podcasting is dead (deserves it’s own post but in short: continuous-play-of-vetted-high-quality-audio-with-zero-syncing-hassle makes my day )

Ev and Biz have nice things to say about what it is and how it started.

Tags: odeo, sms, twttr

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