Twitter: The New Blog

I’ve been trying to figure out what the draw is to people using Twitter. I like to think of it as a blog for the “txt mssge” generation. The people who typically operate blogs (like myself), and people who are big into text messaging (the tweens), are not that far off in age, but Twitter provides another venue for people to share their views without having to write several paragraphs. After all, people are reading far less these days, and short and lean is always favored over long winded (Sorry Faulkner). Throughout the day I’ve got funny ideas or things happen to me that aren’t very blog worthy, but it’ll make the cut for twitter!

Of course there’s a downside to twitter. I do not care what you had for any meals, if you are going #1 or #2, or anything extremely trivial. Anything that every person on earth does every day is not news worthy.

It’ll be interesting to see if the site becomes stronger or if it becomes a fad/novelty of the 2000’s.