April 2, 2008 7:47pm
My new buddy Andy C recently said to me:
I used to enjoy blogging a lot more and I actually have a couple of humourous blog articles that I am genuinely quite fond - no more than that - proud of.
Twitter is just the ultimate in 'disposable' blogging. All that crap posted from Heathrow T5 just fills my time in. It's hardly earth shattering, is it? God - I can't remember any of those stupid tweets (apart from the lads in Yellow Lurex suits that was pretty funny) let alone be proud of all those throwaway one-liners.
But Twitter (or at least micro services like it, as on Andy's advice I'm trying out FriendFeed) is much more than that. The things I know about Andy have mostly come from that disposable blogging. It's exactly that reason that I think there is room for blogging and Twitter; blogging enables all sorts of complex ideas to be thrashed out, and I can get a real idea of what someone thinks, but through tweets I get to know the _person_. Of course there's a bit of a blurring between those two as well, but individual tweets don't have to be things of which to be proud. The body of tweets is indicative.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:19pm
On the other hand, sometimes I wake up, look at some of last night's alcohol fuelled Tweets and are positively ashamed at the 'quality' instead of proud.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:40am
Like I said, the body of tweets is indicative.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:01pm
Come on. Add a smiley. You're making me paranoid. You're not going to tell my Mum, are you ? :-)
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:08pm
I'm ambivalent about smilies. For starters I don't know how to spell the plural. Second, it feels kind of juvenile. But then I did say 'w00t' in a recent email, so I guess I am juvenile :)