February 14, 2008 at 12:12 pm · Authored by Alex · Filed under SMS

Just how easy is Twitter to ‘get’ when you’re a normob? This NY Times piece highlights that it isn’t that simple — something I’ve been observing with quite a few people over the past weeks.

Link: If You Can’t Let Go, Twitter - New York Times

“The site was confusing and I didn’t have time to figure out how to activate my cellphone,” said my middle daughter, Ella, 16.

“I thought that e-mail from Twitter was spam, so I deleted it,” said my youngest daughter, Clementine, who is 10 and an enthusiastic reader of spam.

“It’s too complicated,” Zoe said.

(Via Dave Winer’s twitter)