Is that a Twitter in Your Pocket?

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I have a theory why there are so many of the 30+ crowd and so few of the young adult crowd on twitter. Because kids did chat rooms back in the day. And the response time on those was far faster. And you could go over 140 characters. And they still ended up kind of sucking and fading away.

I wouldn’t consider micro-blogging to be a more primitive form of blogging necessarily, but mostly just an unnecessary addendum. I get the one to many broadcasting benefit, but that’s not different at all than the oh so 2006 regular blog that actually has space for a complete thought. Twitter is built on the back of the “life is in the details” approach to blogging. It’s the Seinfeld of social networking. One big show about nothing. Don’t get me wrong, I love Seinfeld, but there are very few that would be able to pull it off. 

Micro-blogging is probably here to stay, but I think as an addendum to instant messaging (like it is already on google talk), or something to add flavor to facebook or myspace (as it already does). But as a stand alone? I just can’t see it. 

And yes, you’ll see me jump over there from time to time. Sure there are usually some good comments coming through from folks like drew, lewis, armano (or rusty), and a few others. But I just assume follow the blog, I guess. It’s easier to keep up with.