June42009
Is a Tweet the New Size of a Thought? »
Great Wired article. A sample: “Sure, it’s easy to dismiss Twitter because of the content — the endless stream of latte orders, flight delays, mood swings. Who cares? But that would be a mistake. Early critics of the television also wrote it off as a time waster with few redeeming social or cultural values: the boob tube. But TV became a powerful change agent regardless of, or even in spite of, the programming. The medium was the message.
The same lesson applies to Twitter. The most important thing about it isn’t the messages themselves — most of them are admittedly banal — but the form of the message: 140 characters or fewer.”
