17 Million Users on Twitter

Since then, Twitter has grown exponentially and now has as many as 17 million users. This has forced me to critically revisit my original thesis. Surely there can't be 17 million people who have entered into a tacit pact to validate each other's boring lives by trading banal observations and mundane details of their day. Has Twitter gotten more interesting? To find out, I decided to infiltrate. I became a Twit myself, an active member of the Twitterati. The Twitter box actually encourages prosaic reports, prompting with: "What are you doing?" My first "tweet," held to the required maximum of 140 characters, answered honestly: "Reading stunningly inconsequential tweets from others. Wanting to gouge out my eyeballs with a soup spoon."