Just a quick note about everyone’s current Ruby on Rails darling, Twitter. I didn’t really get it until I hooked it up with my IM client. The value in Twitter is, after all, getting your friends to use it and then using it somewhat consistently. Well, when you hook it up to your IM client, all you need are one or two friends who are consistently updating their Twitter account. The moment you reach that low but critical threshold, peer pressure begins to force you to update it. Think of it as the network effects of Tweets.

Yes, I should go to bed. ;)

(though, honestly, I doubt I’m the first to come up with that idea)