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Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon I finally broke down and got a new cell phone. At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I had only the vaguest sense of what mobile technology is capable of doing these days, like “Bluetooth” and such.

And then there is text messaging. Something that I have never done before in my entire life. Not even once.

Until tonight.

I got the X-tc from Virgin Mobile (and I might treat myself to an iPhone if… something happens in the near future), which has a very nice slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It’s a feature I was particularly looking for since I’m such a fast typist, and I didn’t want to “re-learn” how to do texting like most folks seem adept at doing.

Anyhoo, I tied my Twitter account into my new mobile phone, and a short while ago sent my first-ever text message from a mobile gadget.

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If you use Twitter, the latest craze on the Intertubes, then it’s quite likely that you are going to abandon the service after your first month. That’s the finding of a Neilsen report which found that 60% of new Twitterers get tired of it after just one month.

However, I have to wonder how many of these Twitter expatriates eventually come back. Robert Strohmeyer elucidates on that further over at the ABC News website. Strohmeyer’s point is that many folks first come to Twitter under the assumption that it’s supposed to just chronicle the minutia of daily life, like “I’m cold” or “Going to the bathroom now”… when that’s not what Twitter is about at all. And that when they realize how Twitter is actually quite useful as a serious micro-blogging utility, then they have the tendency to drift back.

I can vouch for that. When Twitter ...

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