I’ve been umming and aahing about blogging on Twitter for some time now but I think that today is the day.

The main reason for this is that Twitter seems to be taking over a)The World and b) My Life. The first is manifested in all the coverage Twitter seems to be getting and the fact that Stephen Fry, who I follow, is complaining about journalists asking him about Twitter and not his new film/tv show.

The second is demonstrated by my feeling the need to Tweet whilst out for wine and tapas last night.

Last week a couple of friends asked me what this whole Twitter thing was all about and in my attempt to explain I made it sound incredibly narcissistic and quite dull. I also told them that they’d be on it in a month’s time and as addicted as me.

The great thing about Twitter is that it really should be incredibly self-involved and dull but it isn’t. It’s not just a high tech version of Heat magazine either.

Yes I now know what Stephen Fry and Boris Johnson are up to minute by minute but I also get nuggets of into on events from exhibitions to gigs going on in Manchester from @eventmatch.

It constantly evolves too, on average I’m finding a couple of new people/things to follow each day. Today’s addition is, I think, going to be particularly revolutionary as I’ve started to follow @pitchforkmedia, this means that every so often they suggest a song and I head off to blip.fm to listen to it.

Similarly I follow a couple of journalists and bloggers who point me in the direction of stuff that they’re reading or writing. Both of these demonstrate the genius of Twitter: people who know more about a particular subject than you do, be it themselves, new music or iPhones, effectively filter the internet and give you the interesting bits.