Tweets, Twits and Twoughts with Stephen Colbert

So I’ve been on the Twitter sidelines for some time now, dabbling much as I dabble here with blogging. My friends outside of work are reaching a point of exhaustion with facebook, but are convinced they want nothing to do with Twitter. Twitter’s recent exposure in mass media has managed to clue a lot of people in to its existence, but due to mass media’s general confusion with the service, hasn’t passed on a lot of anything else. I tell them it’s a powerful business tool if used properly, but outside businesses directly connected to new media, that’s sort of hard to quantify. If you’re not using it for business, does the average person really receive any benefit from Twitter not afforded by facebook or any of the other more ’social’ social networks? How will the world at large continue to react to Twitter? I’m hoping the Colbert Nation can help provide an answer.

During his interview with Biz Stone (cofounder of Twitter) this evening, Stephen Colbert finally picked up his iPhone and started tweeting (@stephenathome), and after the initial flurry of follows, he’s been building his Twitter congregation at a rate of about one a second since the show ended. I jumped on the follow train and plan on watching to see how both the show, the host and the fans react to one and other over the next few weeks.

While we’re waiting to see how one of the most influential celebrity voices of our times determines what to make of it, check out this hilarious outtake from a recent interview with Colbert where he’s asked if he’s on Twitter.