The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience

Posted Sep 14, 2010 1:01 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience by marduk
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience

140-Character broadcasts look an awful lot like a combination of the worst features of cellular short messaging and Usenet; it's conversation via bumper sticker

By all rights, this must be a Quote of the Week.

The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience

Posted Sep 14, 2010 3:31 UTC (Tue) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link] (1 responses)

Bumper sticker: "Quit Honking, I'm On The Phone". Two obsolete communication media referenced in a third. Texting and Twitter are obsolete too. I wonder when we'll get something that's not.

The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience

Posted Sep 14, 2010 3:55 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

does it really matter? by the time there are many people using it, it will be obsolete too.

The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience

Posted Sep 17, 2010 10:12 UTC (Fri) by wookey (guest, #5501) [Link]

I'm glad it's not just me. I looked at twitter once and was astonished to see how crappy it was, given the buzz. It seems like a really primitive version of IRC without proper channels and extremely short messages. Amazing what gets popular. I guess jon's article gives some idea of why people do find it useful.

The Grumpy Editor's Twitter experience

Posted Oct 12, 2010 20:38 UTC (Tue) by faried (subscriber, #42641) [Link]

A pity it's too long to be tweeted!