When I asked Antonio what I’d use Twitter for he cryptically replied, “You’ll have to find your own purpose.”  Then I got Twitter and I found a purpose for it: a stripped back Facebook where I could stalk celebrities and be served only the juiciest news and features.  I even dared to voice this opinion in a post and, like most times I voice an opinion, it was violently shot down by all sides (mainly just Guy).

People didn’t care what Stephen Fry thought, they’d decide for themselves what the best content was, it would never replace Facebook.

Today I offer an argument that cannot be denied; free stuff.

@viceuk sent me a book that should be retailing at £28, for free. The Vice Photo Book was given away to their 4,000th follower, who just happened to be me.  Between it’s hardback covers Vice Magazine spend 336 pages documenting the s***-stained, sex-obsessed nature of humanity in all its full-frontal full-colour glory.

Have been flicking through it for the past few days but have yet to read it properly.  Something on page 60, however, caught my eye.

[Photographer Richard Kern] Then I have a series of girls doing things, like domestic things.  It’s all about there being a plausible reason for the girl to be naked.

[Vice interviewer Jesse Pearson] A reasonable expectation for nudity.
Like there’s a point to it.  Like the shot of my girlfriend scrubbing the floor.  She usually is naked when she does that for real.

Because she doesn’t want to get her clothes dirty or because you ask her to be?
Ha.  Because she doesn’t want to get her clothes dirty.  Every girl I ask cleans naked.

And there you have it, “Every girl I ask cleans naked.”  Women tell me lots of things (“Jon you wouldn’t want to have cystitis – you pee and you pee and you pee, and then, when you’re done, you wanna pee some more!”) and yet none of them have ever mentioned this whole naked cleaning thing.  Maybe it only ever happens when I’m out.

Other uses for Twitter I have discovered include;

• Promoting the Blog – I throw up a new tweet for each new post (you can get a full listing of all the posts I’ve made since joining Twitter by searching for the hashtag #scribblog).
• Networking – This still seems very much in its infancy.  American businessmen and sound recordists like following me (sounds so wrong out of context) but I’ve yet to see how they benefit.  The other day however journalist @david_elks tweeted my blog.  He’s compiling a comprehensive list of Stokie bloggers which includes my entire house (Gingell, Scribble and Baines), before we were even aware the list existed, weird.  Might be of use to anyone out there doing the Online Projects unit at uni.  He’s also tweeted about @SentinelNews which is useful for keeping up with local happenings and also reminds me I should probably go back there and do some more work experience.
• Insight - Twitter is also useful for sounding out the world;

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*Some readers may have noticed that the last time I blogged was very early Wednesday morning (even though it’s listed as Sunday on the blog), they may then cite this blog entry and infer that as Gingell has blog posts for Monday and Wednesday she has won.  I would ask these readers to define their terms (Monday, Wednesday, Gingell, won) and then I would run away.