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TWITTER….Today the New York Times christens “The Buzzwords of 2008,” and one of them is:

This is designed to memorialize all forms of the word Twitter, whatever they may be. So as long as we’re on the subject, can someone help me out with the whole twitter phenomenon? I’m pretty used to things that I’m not personally interested in but that I still get (like, say, texting), but twitter is something that I don’t even really get. So if you’re a twitterer, tell me in comments what you use it for, why you like it, how it makes your life more worth living, etc. I’m just curious.