2 Nov
2009
2 Nov
'09
11:37 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Alex Randall <alex@islands.vi> wrote:
I was prepared to dismiss Twitter when I first saw it. Profoundly stupid, I thought. Who can reduce their thoughts to 140 characters.
Cal & I use 60. Today I ate 5 dates, chrios, 8oz carrot jce. Twitter may change the way we write.
It may be feeding right into the culture of the instant. None of this twitter lasts.
Transience and brevity are unrelated. Pith endures. It falls off the bottom of the screen after a few folks post their latest
tweets and there is no record, no history.
Twitter's history is stored and aggressively mined... SJ