After posting last night about maybe getting a fannish Twitter account, I found three new articles about Twitter posted at the media studies site FlowTV. So I'm cryptoxin on Twitter: now what?

The best of the FlowTV pieces -- and the one which speaks most immediately to my interests -- is People I Want to Know: Twitter, Celebrity and Social Connection by Liz Ellcessor, and Leigh Edwards' Twitter: Democratizing the Media Corporate Branding is also relevant (though I think there's supposed to be an 'or' in the title before 'Corporate Branding' and a question mark at the end). Still, it feels like they're only scraping the surface -- understandably, for short pieces on an emerging phenomenon.

Louisa Stein's It's Contagious: Twitter and the Palimpsest of Authorship juxtaposes Twitter with lim 's vid Us, but I honestly couldn't figure out what her argument was -- something about "the prismatic processes of individual and collective authoring." Which sounds good, but the piece itself didn't make a lot of sense to me, and reads more like shorthand notes from a talk or an overgrown abstract for a longer and more thoroughly argued essay. Or am I just being dense?

Off to 'follow' Lauren Conrad and Lil C....