Twitter

5 Responses to “Twitter”

1. rob says on: 15 April 2009 at 2:42 pm

   I sort of disagree. They are for different purposes. Blogs are for more lengthy dialog, whereas Twitter is for short bursts of thought. Personally, I don’t understand the attraction of Twitter. Why do I care what others are doing every moment of the day, and why do I care to tell others about such things?
2. Sam. says on: 15 April 2009 at 3:15 pm

   Tweets are much shorter which is good. Though I seem to be following more twitterers so content does not seem - sadly - to be reduced.
3. Chris Marsden says on: 17 April 2009 at 7:08 am

   Does this mean you’ll be twittering more?
4. Alex McManus says on: 17 April 2009 at 9:47 am

   Thanks all….

   Rob, Yes that’s true today. But when blogs first came out, we used them for shorts bursts and reserved longer articles for our ezines. In fact, some offered then the same critique about blogs that you offer for twitter now. Today, blogs have replaced ezines and twitter has replaced blogs. But you’re right…because twitter limits the number of words per tweet, it forces us to use it as a pointer to content or as a source of meaningless but very personal updates.

   Chris, yes, I will twitter more, but I will blog more too. I’ll simply adjust for their different purposes like Rob suggests.
5. ben stewart says on: 21 May 2009 at 6:18 pm

   How about:

   Twitter is now
   what
   tumblogs were then.

   Blogs are now
   what
   newspapers were then.

   Facebook is now
   what
   e-mail was then.