This is not news. Twitter is really one of the hotter apps in the Internet today and a lot of people I know are happily tweeting away.
But with a limit of 140 characters max, it is a great limitation for me. It’s not a bad thing for sure specially by judging the number of its users. It’s just that I personally have difficulty expressing my ideas in a small number of words.
While I’m learning to write shorter posts lately, I’m not yet very good at it. If you browse my archives, my older posts seem to be a little bit on the longish side. I always need a word count tool to remind me when the time comes to ease up on the keyboard and prune some words.
It really is true, at least for me, that a shorter post does not necessarily take a shorter time than a longer post. My posts normally start out long and I have to take additional time to make it shorter. But that’s if I am not in a hurry.
The French mathematician and theologian, Blaise Pascal had it right when he said: “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” This thought is echoed in various forms by other notable men such as H.D. Thoreau, Voltaire, Augustin and Mark Twain (you can read about it here). I guess this guys would not have been a fan of Twitter also even had Twitter existed during their time.
Maybe, once I learn the art of keeping it short, I could follow y’all in Twitterland.
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Thanks for the presentation. very clever. This reminds me of the site http://us.buuuz.com
ReplyDeleteTwitter are acting small, and I liked that alot, you don't have too many services you just type what you are doing now! that's it .. I don't know I feel like people don't like too many features ..
ReplyDeleteCompare twitter to hi5 for instance...
You have critically hit your point with this short post this time.
Yes I have noticed you like to read a lot so you have a lot to write about all your posts are long. If you read your post twice you can dramatically cut off redundant ideas.
If you didn't , you have to read this book
http://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-Delivery/dp/0321525655/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237620021&sr=8-1
Seth Godin also writes this at the end of his short books like the dip (short books are difficult to write but you made me do it)
Twitter is booming in the US and Japan, but its not popular here at the middle east maybe because the mobile sms services are expensive.
@Hussein: Yup, I'm learning to write shorter posts now. :)
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