Twitter has officially jumped the old people shark and I am in mourning.

I love my Twitter dearly. I joined during the second tier of invites when it was still in beta and no one knew what it was or what it was good for (talking about food! and booze!) and other social media sites (Pounce, virb, etc) sprung up around it like weeds or flowers or springy things and subsequently died around it like weeds or flowers or Natasha Richardson (TOO SOON KIALA) and Twitter became riddled with confused-not-sure-how-to-tweet- correctly celebrities (Seth Green, I'm looking at you) and social media gurus (ick). This makes me sad. And speaking of today, Twitter was the featured subject on the Today Show this morning. Lord. Hoda Kotbe tweets and I...I just...I can't deal with it anymore.

So, in lieu of the poopy economy and the impending freelancery of all journalists and web developers and the aforementioned "social media gurus" (I can't seem to get over that this is a real thing) might I suggest we all pack up our tweets and shuffle on over to Blellow?

Blellow is still in beta but is not invite only and while similar to Twitter in that you only get a certain number of characters to ask a question or talk about a project or whatever, you can specifically target the group of people you'd like to interact with at every, um, "Blellow" I guess. Or "Blell". Or "Blow". Hm.

Anyway, Blellow is targeted at freelancers and while it's not as cute as Twitter, it's much quieter over there and Kathie Lee isn't talking about Frank in less than 140 characters. So that's something.

What do you all think? Should we go?

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