I'm using Twitter way more than I'm blogging at this point

Yes, I will be writing about Twitter in this week's print column, but I've been "tweeting" (I still hate to say "tweet") here for the past week and then some.

The Twitter feed goes to the right-hand side of this blog and is also hooked up to my Facebook page via a Twitter-Facebook widget (for me the best thing about Twitter thus far) that makes it easier than ever to update Facebook as well as promote my various blog entries and other super-exciting activities.

They say blogging "jumped the shark" long ago. Probably so. Twitter is seemingly at its apex at the moment, and that shark-jumping hasn't yet happened. For one thing, Twitter is way more flexible and malleable than you'd think, and that's probably the key to its success thus far. It has an open API (application programming interface) that allows just about anybody to incorporate Twitter content into their own framework (and it's easier for me to type this than to actually understand all of it).

To you, me and the rest of the unwashed masses, that means lots of applications big and small that feed into, draw on and otherwise make use of your Twitter feed in ways you probably don't yet know you need.

Or at least it seems that way.

Anyhow what this means to me at this very moment is that when I get a quick thought about something, or just want to share a link to another blog post or story, I tend to "tweet" it and not bother to start up, log in and write in the Movable Type software that powers this very blog.

There's a reason why SMS text messaging on cell phones is such a compelling (and wildly profitable) application, and Twitter realizes that big time. While the company itself is famed for having no business model and little revenue, you never know what will happen to it in even the next six months. I bet an acquisition is in the works.

I think this acquisition will happen chiefly because you'd be crazy not to think that two dozen other would-be entrepreneurs as well as full-on established companies are contemplating launching a Twitter-like service of their own.

It's going to happen. And happen.

But for now I'm going to be making a lot of use of Twitter just because it's so darn easy to do so. And effective.