The Truth about Twitter

I want to make this post longer, because I treasure your hits and have goals for this site. But Paul Constant already made my point for me.

"Paul Constant Reviews Twitter" is an insightful, incisive, and cleverly-written look at Twitter's impact on the Internet and communication.

I'm not sure Twitter will fade away as Constant expects (except in a broad sense), but otherwise I agree with him: Twitter's changed things.

It's challenged writers; it's opened avenues; it's paved the road for a whole new way of doing business and living life, despite its misuse.

Even this post wouldn't be in the format it takes if it weren't for Twitter suggesting 140 characters can be used to convey important ideas.

So I salute Twitter for this noisy but bloodless revolution; and Paul Constant and @amandapalmer for writing it and linking it respectively.

(And yes, every single paragraph is 140 characters long; Constant did it first and I had to see if I could follow his lead. Thank you sir.)

Now tell me: You followed that, didn't you? So how bad can Twitter be? Give it a try; for proof of concept read the #iranelection hashtag.

For now, I have kielbasa to be cooked, laundry to be done, and writing to be wrote. If you want a Twitter primer, DM me. It's worth a try.