Andre

If tweets, those 140 character messages sent on the Twitter service, are in fact nothing more than status updates and we personify objects, events and actions, then anything measurable can tweet.

The question everyone answers with their tweets is "What are you doing?"
The answer to that should be another counter-question: "Do we care to read?"

Even a simple tree could tweet about what it sees all day, how it interacts with insects, animals and the wind, how it grows, sheds leaves.. A private tweet to me by my laundry machine might still be useful to me at least but does the world need to know? Isn't it enough already when I tell it to all in my own tweet stream?

Fictional accounts like @DarthVader are fun to read, and so are real, human accounts like @_Syma_. Both can't tweet on their own and thus rely on real people who write their stories. However, this is only so long fun as it stays within the account's personality.

Using Twitter as a micro-blog, the daily life of a tree indeed could turn into a beautiful story when carefully written - with a professional level of children books or poetry in mind. Otherwise it would turn into a dead branch of the twitterverse. Why not let an atom whine about its breakup?

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A thought about "followers" on Twitter versus "friends" on about most other social (network) services.

There is something seriously wrong with the usage of "friend" when people clean up their social lists by removing 100s of "unknown friends". If those you follow on Twitter become real friends, it's because you have learned something about them or have communicated with them first.

You "follow" people/services because you are interested in their updates. I personally don't believe in the blind following out of courtesy. What I like about Twitter is that it is about "followers" and not like other sites where the whole world is your - often unknown - "friend".

"Thx for follow" tweets can be annoying but when they are links to "thx for follow" pages with video and plenty of ads, it becomes terrible.

You can follow me on Twitter - and just maybe we might become friends.

In high-density places like Hong Kong, where advertisement is everywhere, you get the occasional surprise where you wonder if that was intention or someone didn't check the result after a botched planning. The MTR is known for allowing advertisement on virtually every inch of their stations to milk every cent out of their deals.

I wonder though if this one was intentional, the guy supposed to jump out of the garbage.

It's the Mid-Autumn Festival and you want to watch the full moon from your home, preferably a rooftop terrace or a balcony. Don't have one? You're not alone, most people don't have that in Hong Kong. And many who do, actually see nothing more than other high(er) buildings.

So what to do? Build your own, paint the view you like and imagine you stand on the real thing. Seen in Tsz Wan Shan, along the wall of a kindergarten.