one forty plus.: Twitter Isn't "Over", I'm Over It.
Last week in Los Angeles I participated in a live Q&A as part of an ASCAP expo on songwriting. When the topic of Twitter came up, I explained my waning interest in it being part of my daily life. By no means do I think it’s over as a medium altogether, but I do think that the days of “Twitter: The…
The interesting conundrum surrounding twitter is that it chose to lock itself to the SMS character limit so that users could easily access the service via text from their cellphones. SMS will not outlive email. More and more web users have email available via their cellphones now (as part of their data plans, separate from their text plans) which is a better way to communicate and respond to anyone anywhere than texting in 160 characters. However, it’s arguably agreeable that the nature for being concise is coaxed more readily from Twitter’s mandate for brevity. Either way, this is still only one iteration in the continual evolution of our want for better, or other, methods of communicating with others.
