So Twitter is still gaining almost as many headlines as people are sending out useless updates, but the publicity curve still outpaces the utility factor. It seems now you can send Twitters out to particular, focused groups of users by way of 30boxes, but I don’t want to have to mashup multiple trendy new widgets to get what I want anymore; I want a comprehensive communications package all at once, so take your umpteenth beta-release of the next best thing and bugger off for a while, already.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is putting a local spin on the dull hum of AP stories about Twitter:

“Last night I’m on my computer, and a Twitter pops up from my friend Shelby, who says he’s at the Vortex,” says Daughters, a video producer and steady blogger from Buckhead. “If I’d been out, it would have gone to my phone, and I might have stopped in and had a beer with him.”

Shelby Highsmith, meanwhile, says he’s still ambivalent about the new form of info-snacking, but is enjoying playing with it.

“I’m a reluctant Twitterer,” says Highsmith, who’s working on his doctorate in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech. “I definitely don’t use it as much as some people. I got one from a friend, and all it said was ‘Sneezing!’

“I’m like, ‘Great, why do I need to know that?’”

I was also, like, ohmuhgawd! And for the record, I drink Guinness, too.

The reporter forgot my favorite part about Twitterrhea: while I’m letting Grayson know where I’m out getting a beer, she’s usually the one who’s waking me up half the mornings of the week while she’s watching the coffee drip. But hey, it’s my own durn fault: the thing does come with an off button.

No groups or geodata, but at least an off button.

ETA: And dagnabbit, the reporter had to go pump up John Edwards for having a Twitter account, totally ignoring how many times I reminded him that Joe Biden does, too. No love, I tell you.

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