A badge on its website describes Twittermoms as "the online version of the three martini playdate," and I think that may be true in that you have to be there to catch the madness. This new group, and I do mean new, boasts more than 4900 members, and was started only a few months ago in September by young mom and Twitter fan Megan Calhoun.

Mid-way through my pregnancy with my first child, my doctor sat me down and said this: "I want you to promise me that you WILL NOT DIAGNOSE YOURSELF THROUGH GOOGLE.""Okay," I said, pulling one hand behind my back and crossing my fingers. "I won't Google.""And you won't do ANY internet research on issues that you are worrying about. You will call ME, or you will call Motherisk.""Yep." Fingers still crossed behind my back.

As I convalesced this weekend from Day 9 of a terrible cold that just won't let go, the Thin Air Summit took place in Denver. Thanks to Twitter, I almost feel like I was there. I was tweet-reading in real-time. But you don't need to be there in the moment. A quick search for #tas08 on Twitter and you find a ton of posts. Tweets on sessions, tweets on insights, tweets on new acquaintances....

What do you think of when I say "Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder?"  Do you think of summer afternoons reading about little Laura, her family and their adventures on the prairie?  Do you think of the TV show starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson?  Do you think Twitter?  Yeah, you heard me, Twitter.  Hold onto your bonnets, people 'cause you remember sweet little Laura?  Well she's a 21st century lady now and that means she's on Twitter.

I admit it: I'm overwhelmed. Have been for more than a year, since the museum blogosphere exploded. I've turned increasingly to Twitter to keep up with people who work in museums, and now, to my great delight, many museums are joining Twitter. Now I can get my fix museum-y goodness in 140 characters instead of 140 lines. (Right. Who are we fooling? I'm still reading the blogs.) So, which museums are diving into Twitter, and why--and why should you follow their tweets?

Let’s see, a couple of years ago there was the about to be divorced friend of a friend who had dinner with me one evening, proclaimed his interest in doing all sorts of things together in the future, and then didn't email or call; behaviors, that, at the time left me totally shocked (I thought that if someone said they wanted to see you and then changed their mind, they’d pass that knowledge on.)

When I delivered my second child this past May, things didn't go exactly as I'd planned, which is usually how it goes, but still. I had totally intended to Twitter the whole thing. I had a brand new MotoRazr smartphone and everything. It was going to be awesome. But when the time came, it just wasn't possible. Man, was I bummed.

Here is the tweet From Tracey Lee Wallace that got the attention of Comcast's digital detective, that got the attention of ABC News, that gave a bunch of people the idea that they should start complaining about theirComcast service on Twitter. "Damn Internet down in my house. Arrrrrgh. Can't fix until Thursday. Shoot me."

(About this interwebs tubes thingie: Part Two) Twitter has been having a lot of problems lately. In the past few weeks months, the Twitter servers have been buckling. The Fail Whale has become something of a pop icon. (Buy the t-shirt!) Ironically, Twitter's problems may have actually helped Twitter.

I am an admitted Twitter addict along with so many others. It's a great place to vent, to brag, to make new friends. What surprised me several months ago was how many folk identify themselves with nicknames based upon their crafty addiction. Knitters, quilters, crafters are abundant on the site. Getting to know them in short 140 character bursts then encouraged to find them again on their blogs, on Ravelry and other places on the nets. So who are the twittering crafters?

For about six months, I used the popular social networking bloglet service, Twitter. I started Twittering as an experiment, because it looked like fun and like another way to make connections online. In the end, though, it almost ruined my (blog) life.

Andrew Baron, of Rocketboom, has posted his twitter.com/andrewbaron account for sale on eBay. He says he's selling the account–which he got free–and the followers. For those of you new to Twitter, 'followers' are the people who read your posts on Twitter, or your Tweets. Since followers on Twitter can come and go at will, one can only wonder how "followers" can be considered a commodity.