Lance Armstrong somewhat famously started using Twitter recently which seems to qualify him to give speeches at Web 2.0 conferences. Say what you will about Armstrong (and people say a lot, not all of it nice) he does know how to work the media. He's now getting his friends involved too. Johan Bruyneel has hopped on the bandwagon and now the two of them are twittering from their crackberries from Tucson to Kazakhstan, a fact that excites the fake Tom Boonen. Ivan Basso too is giving it a go though hasn't set any records yet. Two updates, two words so far for Ivan - 'prova' (test in Italian) and 'Training'. Wow. Armstrong does at least confirm that it is the real Ivan Basso, via Twitter of course. Meanwhile George Hincapie's updates are so dull, they have to be real. He too enthuses about the way LA is revolutionising the interweb. At least Dave Zabriskie's updates are sort of interesting. Although it does sort of grate that i'm not hanging out with Guillermo Del Toro... As much as I sneer, I am enjoying the adoption of technology like this. How long is it before we're getting Twitter updates via voice recognition during races? I'm really looking forward to riders saying some impulsive, foolish things. Let's hope this happens before the Nike reps start doing the Twittering for the riders.