I never really bothered with my MySpace page, I didn’t use my Facebook page. Instead I hopped on Twitter. Twitter made more sense to me for what I wanted to get out of it. Twitter is truly a tool that can be used in many different ways. I made some new friends by way of Twitter and, despite best efforts, quickly found that many friends lived in one of two worlds - Twitter or Facebook.

We’re in a time of short URLs. With the Twitters and Facebooks and everything else, the links we share with people need to short. Services like TinyURL and TwitterHat turn a long web address into something text message friendly, but do short links make your actual domain and address meaningless?

Well, you can’t blame a man for trying. What sounded like a fun idea finally died this weekend. TwitterZombies.com was put out to pasture after a bizzare outbreak last week.

While I did hop on the Twitter bandwagon not all that long ago, Twitter remains a casual web toy. I’ve played with Twitter as a tool, connecting it to applications, services, and even a few games, but beyond that I don’t use it as anything more than a way to communicate with friends and what few people I’ve met through interests. I may write and pay attention to Twitter a lot, but I am not a hardcore Twitterer.

I had another atypical Twitter episode today and it was a good one. The media may be all anti-Twitter as just another fad they don’t understand, and I may use Twitter as an almost-chat tool with friends, but every now and then something useful comes out of Twitter. Good help.