The Joy of Twitter
Ironically, this first blog post in ages was inspired by the proverbial anti-blog: twitter. Although I’ve really had a hard time getting myself to write more blog posts and personal e-mails, I’ve become a real twitter addict.
Twitter’s beauty lies in its simplicity. It’s so simple in fact, that it’s downright restrictive. 140 characters is all you get to convey something coherent – be it insightful, entertaining or just plain random. Part of the fun is working within those narrow confines, tweaking the wording to make every character count and squeeze every last bit out of the “tweet”, as it were.
In a way, it evokes the nostalgia of the telecommunications of days gone by; pay-by-the-letter wire telegrams, or a single sheet of airmail paper. Those times are long gone of course, but Twitter has returned some of the joy of living with limitations.
Sure, there’s a lot if useless messages whipping around the ether. Hell, I “livetwittered” Miss Universe. But used with a little restraint, it can be almost poetic.
Besides, any writing is better than no writing, and with a few dozen more tweets, maybe the blog posts will start streaming from my thumbs after all.
