"I just had the crankiness serenaded out of me. THX! :)"

"A rush of dopamine at our first Instalanche (above), followed by dopamine's falling at our first really nasty comment," we wrote back in March of 2004. We've noticed a similar if muted feeling of well being in the aftermath of Twitter responses (see below).

"SissyWillis!!! You made my week with that Jerry Orbach link," twitters tweeter nest mate OneFineJay, a fellow we remember from our early blogging days who had more or less dropped off our radar screen:

I just had the crankiness serenaded out of me. THX! :)

So many unexpected rushes of dopamine-induced pleasure out there for the tweeting. They call Twitter a mini-blogging platform, and the kind of rush of which we speak does suggest a mini-Instalanche kind of afterglow. In this case a Twitter meme called "#followfriday" that we'd resisted 'cause a list of links to someone else's faves without context or teasers is a yawner. But today we found ourselves being followfridayed in spades by some of our favorite twitterers so decided to tweet back in kind. One thing led to another. Then "Try to Remember" from "The Fantasticks," with its refrain of "follow, follow, follow, follow, follow, follow, follow" came to mind and lent us a playful theme to enliven our own followfriday tweets. For our non-twittering readers, apologies. Trying to explain what Twitter means to a blogger like us is an ongoing project. It's definitely in the eye of the beholder. Watch this space.

Comments

[Gayle Miller]

Any time I read Sissy - I become less cranky! Pictures of Tiny have that effect on me also!