Why short is tweet for the blogging community
I’m still to really get into Twitter (in fact I’m yet to login again after setting up my account months ago…) but Guardian media and technology writer, Jeff Jarvis, is a convert.
I just Twittered this: “I’m writing a column about Twitter and Twittering that.” Not everybody on Twitter saw that update on my life, only those people who care to follow me on the site. That is a critical characteristic of Twitter: it’s selective, in that users choose whether to follow me. And it’s social, in that I choose whom to follow. So we’re not publishing to the big, wide world. We’re talking with our friends and acquaintances.
140-character messaging… just the tonic for the attention-short generation…
