My recent write-up on Twitter (including tips) raised the hackles of many readers, one of whom — Tim Torkildson of St. Anthony — took the time to express his dislike for the oh-so-hot social-networking phenomenon in poetry form:

Like a form of littering
everyone is Twittering.
Everything without regret
is posted on the Internet.
Private moments don’t exist,
disappeared into the mist.
Spare me mundane details, please.
Don’t record your every sneeze.
I am just completely sated
by these folks, so Twitter pated.
I would tell the world: Behold!
All that Twitters is not gold.

I guess in Twitter lingo, we’d call that poetwee. Uh, thanks, Tim. If you had tweeted that ditty, it would have been 200 characters too long.

In other Twitter news, TrendCentral has come up with its own list — not in poetwee form — of the hottest trends in Twitter. They include the celebrity-tracking website Valebrity (as opposed to the one I mentioned, VIP Tweets), the directory of corporate tweeters Twitter Tracker and the lingo directory New Slang. Trendcentral also offers a reminder on how to use the hashtag in Twitter — to help track trends, of course. Give it a look.

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