A couple of interesting posts about Twittering at Karina Longworth’s blog which I found via Twitter.

- “Twitter got me a job”. This doesn’t surprise me given the roster of early adopters and quality people, not to mention the authenticity of one’s own voice and life.

- “Twitter Ethics- Outsourcing” This I found that entry pretty interesting and I plan to ping around to see what is going on. Will professional microbloggers take the stage or is this an extension for bloggers? Moreover, will microchunked content supplant blogs? Back to ethics-

When I first joined Friendster in 2003, much of the fun came from stumbling on celebrity accounts and trying to determine which ones were real, which ones were sort-of real but maintained not by the celebrity themselves but by an assistant, and which ones were totally fake. As Twitter exponentially grows in popularity, that same game is coming back, with added thorns. Twitter’s draw, after all, is its temporality; you’re supposed to use it to track your activity throughout the day. This raises the question: can lifelogging be outsourced?

(Lifelogging noted atFoureyedmonsters.com and this article at WSJ.

In a world where brands or people are trying to find their footing in all the subtle textures of new media, metaverses and social networks- MySpace, Second Life, and now Twitter to name a few it would not surprise me if it happens or will. After all many keep outsourcing their game play (power leveling, pre-made avatar development, WoW gold buying, etc). However, I don’t see why it has too- Twitter (microblogging) is just so easy and so human it is almost instinctive. Much easier than maintaining a blog…which is real work.

It also amazes how fast it grows given the lack of true ID authentication, redirect URLS (soon or later malware authors will be on this) and what I am afraid will occur en masse- twammers.

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