Comments on: Twitter http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/ welcome to the future... Sat, 04 May 2013 01:38:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ben stewart http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-220154 ben stewart Thu, 21 May 2009 23:18:06 +0000 http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/#comment-220154 How about:

Twitter is now
what
tumblogs were then.

Blogs are now
what
newspapers were then.

Facebook is now
what
e-mail was then.

]]> By: Alex McManus http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218230 Alex McManus Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:47:36 +0000 http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/#comment-218230 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.

]]> By: Chris Marsden http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218223 Chris Marsden Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:08:00 +0000 http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/#comment-218223 Does this mean you’ll be twittering more?

]]> By: Sam. http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218138 Sam. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:15:58 +0000 http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/#comment-218138 Tweets are much shorter which is good. Though I seem to be following more twitterers so content does not seem – sadly – to be reduced.

]]> By: rob http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218136 rob Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:42:30 +0000 http://alexmcmanus.org/2009/04/15/twitter/#comment-218136 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?

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