12/27/2009

I Try Twitter

I keep hearing about how fantastic this service is. So I got an account, and every once in awhile I get an email saying "So-and-so is now following you on Twitter." These persons always have women's names, so I suspect their objectives are commercial.

Since I am always sending out emails about my latest postings, it I occurred to me that Twitter might be a better way to do this. So I tried copying my last email into Twitter. It said it had 254 too many characters - 140 characters is the limit. Huh?

You can't say much in 140 characters; real communications is impossible. But that is probably the main idea: to end literacy forever.

Dec 27, 2009 10:14:34 AM | Web/Tech

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