More Thoughts On Twitter

Posted by knorby on March 15, 2009 under internet, twitter | Be the First to Comment

I read an interview with Stephen Fry on the BBC, which seemed to respond nicely to a few of my problems with twitter that I posted about, at least for some. He points out that, on the whole, media really don’t like twitter that much. If he wants to make an announcement, he just does it, and people find it; he doesn’t have to go through a swarm of interviews, which is why the media hates it. I have to admit, I am a lot more interested in public figures as a result of twitter than I ever was before, and if I did care, I probably would stick to twitter rather than the more traditional infotainment channels.

I suppose if I cared more about spoken langauge, writing, etc… I could appreciate how 140 or so characters was an interesting change to language. I guess my problem is really understanding why it matters in the first place. Much bothers me about SMS (more to do with price gouging than anything else), so it might just be my distrust of anything based off of SMS.