Loving the @jonstewart show today.

Check out this great episode of @planetmoney.

@bout how long has it been since I composed an e-thought of more than 140 characters?

Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to re-establish my presence on Twitter. The reasons for this are twofold: first, I wanted to re-establish contact with some of the great people I started meeting in my first phase of tweeting, a few years go; secondly, I’m trying to promote a Kickstarter campaign for my film, Transnationals, and word on the street is, Twittville is the place to be.

Now, there are certainly great things about Twitter. It is definitely a “community” space where people can share their thoughts, give and get advice, promote their stuff — all without that creepy chat-room feel. (Why no creepy chat-room feel? I’m still not sure.) But it’s also a massive time-waster that fosters this “keep up with the Joneses” mentality that almost necessitates that you keep checking, keep tweeting, keep responding — keep on keeping on in the spotlight. That’s probably why there are nearly as many “how to get more Twitter followers” tweets as there are Twitter users!  That’s the part of Twitter that just makes it feel like one big giant narcissistic PR campaign.

Oh, and the fact that most of your thoughts must be truncated, oddly spelled (to save characters, of course) and re-purposed into catchy soundbites  with mass marketing appeal. I really don’t dig that.

So why do I persist with Twitter? Can I persist beyond the threshhold of 3 or 4 months? Will I continue to tweet once I don’t “need” Twitter’s much-touted marketing help? Only time will tell. But, as with too much of ANY good thing, right now I just feel like it’s bad. Really, really bad. Poor Twitter. You once held such promise….