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April 18, 2007

Why I like Twitter

Twitter limits you to 140 characters per posting. You see the postings of people in your social network. The limit encourages frequent postings of small significance.

Twitter thus sounds dumb.

In fact, Twitter is about the intimacy of details. Through it I see small events in the lives of friends about whom I otherwise might only learn the Big Events when we "catch up" after long intervals. [Tags: twitter everything_is_miscellaneous ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 18, 2007 08:35 PM


Comments

Another major step toward complete superficiality. Congratulations.

- Amanda

Posted by: Amanda Chapel | April 19, 2007 08:00 AM


Dear Ms. Amanda,

Is po-mo your bag, or are you merely being...fractalinear? No offense intended. I am just saying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bUch5dveX0

Posted by: Chivalrous | April 19, 2007 08:08 AM


I'm stumped by twitter's existence. It has a huge amount of buzz, but I find it terrifically boring. Am I already too old for the Internet, or is the buzz machine playing a grand joke?

Posted by: Kurt | April 19, 2007 04:57 PM


interesting choice of ambient. did i already ping you about leisa riechelt's "ambient intimacy" tag>?

http://www.disambiguity.com/ambient-intimacy/

Posted by: James Governor | April 24, 2007 01:22 PM


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