I gotta admit… I’m a little bit addicted to twitter… although WHAT a useful site it’s turned out to be after all…

Yesterday I headed into town with a short list of things I had to do and buy. Top of the list was getting a new eye test and glasses, getting copies of the key to the office in work cut and printing up business cards. I went in without a plan, not having an idea of where was best to do what… but twittered once there, asking for recommendations on where to go – and my twitter buddies didn’t fail me. I’m only going back into town today (on the next train) because I didn’t get a chance to go to the place that I was recommended to get business cards from (oh, and I realised I need to get new speaker cable and a couple of other little things for my DJ gear).

Many Web 2.0 sites have sprung up in the past couple of years, some more useful than others, – and it’s the more versatile, adaptable and useful ones that will be adopted by a larger audience, get into the zeitgeist and stay the course. The word “twitter” is slowly working it’s way into the vernacular just like “google” did. Someone asked me the other day how I found out some amazing fact and I said I read it on a tweet on twitter. Granted, I got a blank stare back from them, but the day’s not far off when they’ll just … get it.

Oh – it’s also a useful semi-therapeutic venting platform when I’m pissed off and have something to say to someone (but don’t want to say it to their face or, in fact, to THEM at all)… as in yesterday, in work, when I posted the following tweets:

“I’m sorry, you’ll have to actually make a noise when you order your drink, I can’t lipread”,Why are you pouring all your change on the counter, can’t you count to 4 euros?”, “Yes, thats the price of a coke. No, I don’t think it’s ‘fierce expensive’. No, it shouldn’t be the same as in supervalu.”, “No I can’t cash your cheque for 1,500 euros. Why? Well a> this is a pub not a bank… And b> its january.”, “No the customer ISN’T always right. Especially when you’re insisting that I HAVE to serve you take-out drink at 10.15pm”, “What do you mean ‘pint of Heineken and a smile please?’ – I’ll smile when you’ve all gone home”, “‘Jesus, barman, change the channel… You’re torturing us here…’ … ‘ha ha ha’… *leaves Zimmers on, turns volume up*”, “Customers get excited thinking Russell Brand is coming on Late Late … Cries of ‘who the fuck…?’ when Dave McSavage appears. Hah”, “‘Do you sell credit here?’ … ‘you know youre in a small local pub, yeah?’ … ‘is that a no then?’”, “‘can you bar him from using the jukebox? He put on Shine on you crazy Diamond – thats just selfish!’ … ‘er..’”, “Village bike giving out to and throwing weak-ass punches at a chap in the back bar cos (she claims) he put ‘fat bottomed girls’ on the jukebox ‘for her’.”, “Funny in a ‘you had to be there’ sort of way”