The future of blogs is doomed, say the prophets from Wired. The future was in micro logging. Ughhh.
Do you really understand what those tweet entries mean? I have severe difficulties to get the point of letting know people what are you doing at the moment. Don’t even want to know that. If I did, I would call to ask. You need to know the intimate world of the tweeting person, in order to understand what the tweet means.
If you are not part of the intimate circle of friends, this tweet thing is creating a huge white noise cloud, which is hiding the actually valuable thought in lots of bullshit. Even if there is a good idea somewhere hidden in the bulk of completely unnecessary bits of pet/weather/carpet/PMS information, don’t believe it is actually possible to develop those ideas in 140 symbols. Personally, I think it is much more difficult to structure your thoughts in limited space. Long texts are easy – even if you are not a titan of written speech, you have pretty good chances to accidentally put a sentence or two together, that someone else is going to anchor with. With 140 symbols, you need to be precise, you need to master your ability to filter the important points, to stream your message. Start with some haiku. Practice it a bit, than add Tweeter to your blog. Otherwise, “Time for double espresso” doesn’t mean anything to me. It is just pollution, in all meanings of the word.
I am trying not to be just an oldschool hater in this case. My point is that microblogging is not for everyone. There are people, who are really able to formulate diamonds and pearls in 140 symbols. Taken out of any context, those tweets are meaningful. The problem is, those people are so little, that you can count them almost statistical mistake. Everything else is just an apogee of the superficial imitation of thinking and demonstration of thoughts’ mediocrity.
Fortunately, I am not alone on this side of the barrier: I am watching TV with my cat