OK it seems other may feel the same.
I for find the medium very useful if say I have it linked to my LJ here and I am out and about in another country and so I can micro blog via mobile. I mean that was the main feature of the system.
But of course all systems get abused. Now we have bored people blogging their boring life in bite size chunks for us to read. Rather than trying to string together real sentances life has devolved into one line snippets of bland information.
I mean do we really need to know what everyone is doing all the time? No. It's unsurprising and dull. Yes if say you saw a UFO then a tweet is quicker than a blog post. But really why tweet about every little choice you are making. How about make them and at the end of the day tell us how the day went and miss out the pointless babble about you taking a shit or having tea/coffee/puke going down your throat.
I think being able to write a blog post after then end of a day force you to be reflective and review your activities and allows you the chance to find insight. Tweeting is rather like reading a primary school kids diary. I did this. I did that. We did this. They did that.
So my end point? Twitter I like for quick news posts (new scientist is great for this, the micro dissemination of real information... in other words links to articles). It's good for gig info, the weather, tsunami alerts etc. Not what you and their mum is doing as they scratch their arse.
I think worse are tweets donw from a computer itself. Just fucking write a real blog!
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