Like walking down the street

Twitter, FriendFeed or any other real time stream is like taking a walk in your neighborhood. You have a lot of neighbors, with some you talk, some you’ve just seen a couple of times. When you take a walk down the street you get to see what your neighbours are doing – one is walking the dog, some are chatting, some have been shopping, another guy is cleaning the yard and so on. Maybe you stop and say hi to a few of them. In the same time those neighbours see what you are doing: you are walking the dog, going shopping, washing the car.

That’s how Twitter is, you build your neighborhood (that’s those people that you follow) and take walks from time to time to see what’s new, because you can’t be up all day walking all over the place. And for sure you want to keep those spammers out!