I created one of my first websites back in 1999 where I chronicled my adventures in OpenGL programming. I'd write little news blurbs rich with links and images to and from my work. It was a way of putting my thoughts down in writing and sharing what I learn. Around the same time blogs were just starting up, offering much of the same kind of rich content. I completely understand and love blogs. I have 3 of them.
Twitter, however, is a completely different animal. Whenever I look at someone's Twitter messages I'm completely and hopelessly lost. The imposed 140-character limit is so debilitating to the writer that it's devolving the quality of communication. The short-hand style of writing that people are forced to use is often confusing and never pretty. On top of that, the messages are littered with @ and # symbols, often with short-hand replies between members that I don't really care to read. Why has our communication devolved into this? I mean, this is almost like Teletype. We've invented better things.Now, it may come as a surprise but I do have a Twitter account. I've made about 4 tweets, I think. I would have tweeted my distaste for Twitter... on Twitter, but I don't know if I could have confined it to 140 characters. Let me give it a try anyway...
@Twitter: 140 chars will be bane of my exstnce.Oh I how I wish I cld convey my ides more clerly.Mite as well use teletype or morse code, yo
I couldn't get that last period in there. Meh... close enough.
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