I have now joined the massed ranks of Twitter users. But I have a confession, I just don't get it! Well, not yet anyway.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to try to understand Twitter, the people who use it and whether or not it's something worth being a part of. If you want to follow my 160 character or less status updates you can do that here citytwitty. My first experience was a bad one. I couldn't get my own name as my username. I tried the usual combinations; carl, carldean, carl.dean, carl-dean (btw Twitter doesn't allow non alphanumberic characters so anything with a .,-*&^%$ etc. isn't allowed). I even tried a few amusing ones, twithead, twittw*t but all to no avail. I had a similar experience on eBay when I joined that years ago. I could have used the same name that I ended up with on eBay but Twitter is about sharing your thoughts, activities and other personal stuff with the world at large. There's a danger that with this knowledge somebody might figure out my eBay password or worse still my PayPal one. So the anonymity of CityTwitty it is.
Follow me if you can be bothered, but I won't hold it against you if you don't.
The elves are back...