“latina goat women”: your spam is way more interesting than mine- I just get ads for v!agRa and c1alis… not sure which is worse 🙂

Lots of folks, probably the majority, use Twitter almost exclusively to follow other people. I have no idea what the actual stats are, but I’d imagine that a majority don’t tweet more than once a day. I expect I’ll tweet less going forward: this week is probably a bit of an artificial high-water mark since I’m technically on “vacation” (the quotes are there because I’m working over 20 hours during my “vacation” week).

I regularly work 60-70 hours during my normal work weeks, but even then I have pauses while I’m waiting for code to compile, files to transfer, servers to restart, and the like. Composing a tweet takes 30 seconds (grammar and structure are pretty loose: it is intended to be an informal chat), and with my work I always have a computer at hand. So for me, it is pretty easy- in your work, obviously less so.

But I’d also challenge your “I have nothing to tweet/no time to tweet” statement. You are going on an interesting trip next year. Assuming you periodically get access to Wifi, Twitter could be perfect for sharing that. That neat netbook you have would be perfect for Twitter, and you can share your photos that way as well via TwitPic. Since you are limited to 140 characters, you are “forced” to keep it short and this should please Billie 🙂 You might not submit a single tweet for several months after that until your next vacation, but…

Having said that, I am fully on board with folks who see neither the need to tweet nor have any interest in following other people’s tweets. Although I see it in a much different light now, I was a cynic/doubter until recently, and my “conversion” didn’t come with any mandate to find new followers 😉