Enjoying being able to stay in touch while travelling (although trying to avoid the urge to download my work emails).  Bit of blogging, photos and twittering.

I'm really enjoying being able to post and track microblogs using twitter, sending small quick updates to people by web, text message and status messages. Kate seems to be having fun doing this too.

Also heard from Kal this morning that he has just finished his exams, and was waiting expectantly for answers - so we got in touch to cheer him up Tried to get Louis to giggle down the phone. Not sure what else he got back from the request for a distraction via twitter.

EDIT: Congratulations Kal on passing the exams

On the sighty more annoying side are the start of the spam twitter accounts. An account called googlenoticias started following lots of people yesterday.  Of course the spamming only works if I reciprocate and choose to follow it in return. Mildly irritating.

Also previously have had a more targeted approach from companies using Twitter.  One of which was writing about and promoting training 'courses' for schools including brain gym!

On the other hand, seeing how twitter can be used socially in zefrank's colorwars has reminded me how much more fun it is to use it socially.  (On our way down to centreparks we joined in playing Bingo over twitter - Kate for c0ff00team and myself for redteam.  Colo(u)r wars has already divided the family.

It really seems that twitter is more interesting when used as part of a conversation rather then just a one way stream of consciousness.  Ask a question, or comment back to someone.  It's much more than just a way to update your Facebook status.