In conversation, I often hear about or think of something that I want to remember. I’ll exclaim “Oh! Let me write that down.” and then I’ll whip out my cell phone to furiously tap-tap-tap a text message to myself. This happens to me a lot. People find it hilarious that my cell phone has entirely replaced the need for a paper and a pen.

While standing in line at Starbucks today, I thought of something and wanted to take a note. As I pulled my phone out of my pocket and began composing a text message to myself as normal, I thought, “Hmmm, I wonder if I can direct message myself on Twitter.” So, I dashed this message off:

d girk Hmm, I wonder if I can direct message myself, or if it’s more like “You cannot poke yourself.” ala Facebook back in the day.

And I got the following message back:

girk does not follow you. Send ‘follow girk’ to request.

So, when I got back to my computer, I obligingly typed ‘follow girk’ into the “What are you doing?” box, and received the following:

Hey Twitter, if you’re listening, Facebook allows us to poke ourselves now. So, why can’t we follow ourselves? I’m not the only one who uses Twitter as a nerdy scratchpad.