Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 64

Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages (called "tweets") that you find interesting, useful, amusing, or disagreeable. Here is the 64th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top): Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people. You can read more here: A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.

1. bencasnocha Reading blogs/ RSS is a better use of time than reading Twitter. In gen'l the most interesting thinkers are blogging more than twittering. 5:43 PM May 26th from TweetDeck
   
   
2. jeffjarvis In Des Moines. Solid rain. Good for corn. Bad for my suit. 5:41 PM May 26th from Tweetie
   
   
3. AllergyNotes Why journal editors make font of "methods/statistics" smaller than the rest of the article? Not to discourage you from reading it I hope. 5:39 PM May 26th from web
   
   
4. arrington retweets are going to become serious currency in the new search engines. like hyperlinks in the "old days." 7:51 PM May 25th from web
   
   
5. loic Twitter and Facebook are the revenge of the non bloggers. They can be as influential or more than bloggers without even knowing what a blog is 7:14 PM May 24th from Seesmic Desktop
   
   
6. jeffjarvis Twitter doesn't get the heart-rate up. Twitter keeps me from running. Twitter is not healthy. 7:47 AM May 23rd from Tweetie
   
   
7. bencasnocha The best thing about being famous is the chance to meet other famous people. - Andy Warhol 7:15 PM May 22nd from txt
8. pkedrosky one of the more terrifying searches you can do on twitter -- people texting and driving http://is.gd/CpU012:45 PM May 22nd from twhirl
   
   
9. KidneyNotes Epocrates Pill Finder on the iPhone correctly identified a patient's small round white tablet with 321 on one side as Ativan 0.5 mg. 10:15 AM May 22nd from TwitterBar
   
   
10. judywriter When I can't sleep, I start thinking of the things I'm grateful for. Haven't gotten to the end of that list even once. 9:20 PM May 21st from TweetDeck
    
    
11. arrington I'll put it this way: The new Terminator movie is so bad you keep hoping the machines will win so the movie will end. 1:47 PM May 21st from web
    
    
12. bencasnocha "Kids don’t want quality time. They want quantity time — big, stinking, lazy, nonproductive quantity time." - Al Franken, advice to parents 2:12 PM May 27th from TweetDeck

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