Twitter your time

I have recently created an account at twitter.com, invited by Natalie. It is really interesting to see how such a simple application can affect you and your friends. This is a good example of how a simple idea can be a great idea.

Basically it is a social networking web application that lets you report what you are doing at any point in time so your friends or anyone can see it. Such as in that box at this blog's sidebar (provided by twitter.com, it fetches the data I have entered in twitter.com), you can see what I did 10mins ago, etc.

There are 2 obvious ways to update your twitters, one is before you start doing something, and another is after you've finished doing something. I prefer the first, since it does give people a more updated report of what you are doing, naturally.

But when I use this approach, it becomes obvious how much I procrastinate, or how easily I get distracted, as after I had updated that I was going to do X, I can see on my twitters that I had said I was going to do X 15mins ago, and yet I'm still not doing X yet! Or sometimes, I don't even end up doing what I said I was going to do.

So that's why I always feel like I never have enough time to do what I want to do! Because I waste so much time getting distracted before starting anything.

Try it, you might find your time gremlins too.

Hrmm.. would be interesting to make some timeline based applications with the Twitter API. Lets see how much time will elapse after this thought when I finally do make something.

PS: I've just finished writing a wordpress plugin for updating Twitter when I edit / create / publish a post. Will post it up for sharing after I tidy it up!