Tonight, while flipping around the TV, I saw reporter John Donovan of ABC doing a story on Nightline about Twitter.  Okay, so the main stream media is finally catching up to this technology, so does that mean the end of Twitter as we know it?

I mean, think about it…wasn’t R.E.M. a lot better when no one knew about them?  Isn’t it more fun being a fan of a team that is on the rise or a spoiler, more than the perennial champion of the league?  Wasn’t it more cool to drive to Pennsylvania to bring back a six pack of Yuengling beer because you couldn’t get it anywhere…rather than now when it is one of the low priced beers, sitting next to Budweiser and Miller?

When something becomes mainstream, it always seems to find a way to hit the burnout factor and then disappear.  Remember bell bottoms and skinny ties?

Well, for my part, I guess I will be one of those lemmings and will tune in for a while to see how things go.  It’d actually be kind of fun to read a tweet from an MLB player while he’s sitting in the dugout.  Closest I had to that was when C. J. Nitkowski played for the Tigers and ran his own daily web-based recap of lockerroom talk and life in the big leagues (he still has a site by the way, and now he is in the far east playing baseball…so I may pick up on reading him again).

So enjoy it while it lasts folks…because the shine is about to dust off of that new sports car.