If you have any idea what Twitter is, and wonder about where it is going, how it affects our culture, and the different ways that people use it, check out Michael Lopp’s “We Travel In Tribes” essay.

He has a particular style and relationship with Twitter, and thereby is de-facto part of the tribe that uses Twitter in that way. Towards the end of the essay he briefly mentions a few other tribes or strange attractors in the growing Twitter ecosystem:

My tribe is not your tribe because you’re not using Twitter how I do. You wrote an Academy Award-winning screenplay, only follow a few people, but have thousands following you. You sell shoes and follow each of the thousands of people who follow you. You are a major airline, but sound surprisingly human.