"Longed for him. Got him. Shit." - Margaret Atwood
"For sale: baby shoes, never used." - Ernest Hemingway

How To Enter the Six-Word Memoir Contest

1. Make smithmag a friend (Add Smithmag)
2. Preface a six-word Twitter entry with "smithmag" like this:

smithmag He wore dresses. This caused messes.
(Note: the "smithmag" keyword doesn't count as one of the words.)

I really wish the overlords at Vox would allow us to add our Twitter timeline onto our Vox page somehow. It's an insanely useful service that just begs to be part of Vox.

Show your support for this idea by tagging your own post with Twitter, marking this post "this is good," and by all means communicate directly with the Vox folks and let them know.

1. Victoria built a WordPress plugin for Twitter that automatically announces a new blog post.
   
   
2. Somebody seems to be planning a site for Twitter addicts called ThirdPersons.com. They're taking suggestions for features.

So, let's look at this flat world thingy again: I send an instant message, it updates Twitter, someone in Myanmar reads this and posts it, Google indexes the post and alerts me my name was used, I blog about it here.

1. Favorites! When you come across a Twitter update that you really like you can save it by clicking the little star. We collect your favorites for you so you can get back to them any time.
   
   
2. Delete! Deleting may not seem like an exciting feature but when a late-night Twitter doesn't seem that great the next day you'll be glad we stuck it in there.
   
   
3. Top 10! Now that we have a way for people to pick favorites we can put together fun pages like the Top 10 Favorite Twitters. (Note: The Top 10 page is not ready for prime time yet because people are still kicking the tires of this feature.)
   
   
4. Messages! You can get direct messages from other Twitter users that you have designated as "Friend." These messages are not Twitter updates, they are notes directly to you and we archive them on the web in case you choose not to receive them via SMS or IM.
   
   
5. Timestamps! We like to keep things casual with regard to when you sent in your last update with language like "about 2 hours ago" but after 24 hours that gets a little silly. After 24 hours we now assign a more formal time stamp to your update like this, "11:11AM November 13, 2006."
   
   
6. User Search! In your sidebar just above all the thumbnail images of your friends we have added a text field that lets you search for people in Twitter. You can search by name, email, or phone and if we find the person you're looking for we will display their profile image for you to click.