Chris succumbs to Twitter

I’ve been nagged by a couple of people about joining the tweeters (or is the appropriate collective noun ‘twitterers’?). Although I’m still not completely clear on what it’s all for, I’m going to try and find out through the medium of giving it a whirl, and I can now be found trying to compress my overly complicated sentences into 140 characters or less under the username ‘Allochthonous’.
While I’m at it, I should probably mention that I’m trying out FriendFeed too. Again, I’m hoping to learn the point – or lack thereof – through doing.