Twitter, Twitter on the Wall.

Who here was initially miffed by Twitter? /me raises hand. I didn’t know what to make of a service where you shouted into the void; 140 characters at a time. “Who cares?” Luckily, I put on my thinking cap and came up with a use for Twitter: A personal journal formatted in the style of a computer log with a dash of Objective-C and old school Telecommunications lingo. It looks like this:

0834 JST [#iTunes #Ripping #CD: James Brown's 20 All Time Greatest Hits.]: The God Father of SOUL! EOT

Yeah, it looks like a lot of mumbo-jumbo, but there is some logic to it.

Tweet Format

Each tweet starts with a time stamp and the time-zone I am tweeting from – this will probably always be Japan:

0834 JST

The next bit is enclosed in brackets. The hash tags (#) on the left of the colon are for context. Everything to the right of the colon is the main tweet:

[#iTunes #Ripping #CD: James Brown's 20 All Time Greatest Hits.]

Any extraneous comments are tacked on after the closing bracket and are proceeded by a colon.

: The God Father of SOUL!

The entire mess is then closed with EOT, or End of Transmission.

EOT

All together now!

0834 JST [#iTunes #Ripping #CD: James Brown's 20 All Time Greatest Hits.]: The God Father of SOUL! EOT

Hashtags & Search.Twitter.

Hashtags:

Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

• Feed displaying CDs I’ve ripped to iTunes
• Feed: FTWs
• Feed: Tweets about the Chuo line (Other tweets exist, but lack the appropriate hashtag. Sorry)

Enjoy!