I’m a big fan of Common Craft’s “Explanations In Plain English” video series. I’ve linked to their videos to help explain RSS (and RSS Readers) and Social Bookmarking (like del.icio.us) here before. Yesterday Adam Riggins linked to the latest Common Craft video explaining Twitter in plain English. It really does a good job of showing the possible value of Twitter, which is nice since I fail miserably in convincing anyone to use it with me.
Here’s Common Craft’s “Twitter In Plain English”:

It really is hard explaining Twitter to someone without it sounding weird. Those videos are great.
adam
March 18, 2008 at 9:08 am
All right, I’m in. I’ll see if I can find you coming up here.
Nathan
March 19, 2008 at 9:11 am
Woah! Nathan, this means that 2 people I’ve met face to face use Twitter (that I’m aware of). How exciting!
Jason
March 19, 2008 at 9:14 am
Er, turns out I already had it and wasn’t using it.
Nathan
March 19, 2008 at 9:15 am
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