So I’ve been thinking about Twitter some more. I’ve been thinking a lot about the applications of social networking technology this week including why corporations would encourage staff to blog, what the hell myspace is useful for and, obviously, why do we twitter.

It occurred to me later on that one useful application of twitter is, for example, to use it as a way of maintaining a training diary on a blog. So I signed up to mess around and see what can be done and what can be exported. Some of the data is exposed through XML but the main feed that would be useful includes both my entries and those of anyone I’ve added as a friend. This is less than desirable and I would have to write exception loops when parsing the XML to filter out my posts. On the other hand, a simpler solution would be to not add people as friends. I don’t want to add a “badge” because it’s either a prestyled flash badge or a css customisable javascript one. Anyway, I will investigate.

One of the things I deliberately did was make sure that my entries didn’t go into the public timeline. But while looking at the various people scratching their arses and idly wondering if people like them, I had another idea. So I set up another twitter account, one I can have fun with. One that, suprisingly, is still available. One that I really hope I can be bothered to keep updating every now and then.

You can view that one here.