Smaller and better time sinks
Countering the conventional wisdom, Marcel allows that Twitter might not actually be a complete waste of time:
I’ll use it for links, or observations too pithy to blog. (Because, you know, one mustn’t have an unpublished thought…) But I’m not using it on my cell phone. People will just have to wait for status updates until I get back to the house. And how does Twitter (d)evolve? Next year Amazon will present a new service where users just grunt at each other. “Yo! Huh? Lookit. Ungh! Heh.”
They’ll have to pay Glenn Reynolds royalties for at least some of that.
Eventually, there will be a smartphone device that attaches directly to the synapses, bypassing consciousness completely. With a little bit of development, the Two Minutes Hate can be whittled down to a matter of milliseconds.
McGehee »
21 February 2010 · 10:31 am
And it will be knows as “Twitch.”
Andrea Harris »
21 February 2010 · 12:07 pm
I did the cell phone thing for a little while, but to tell you the truth texting from my cell phone is tedious (it’s a simple model, not a fancy one with a QWERTY keyboard), and I don’t like using my phone anyway, and nothing really momentous happens to me that deserves twittering from my phone. I mostly use Twitter for automatic updates when I post something on my Tumblr site, which has become all too often these days.
fillyjonk »
21 February 2010 · 1:55 pm
Perhaps in a couple more decades, the human race will have become like songbirds, where the sum total of their vocalizations amount to either
“MINE MINE MINE” or “DANGER DANGER DANGER” or “MATE WITH ME, MATE WITH ME”
Maybe that’s really why they call it Twitter. Maybe it’s secretly run by super-intelligent birds looking to bring the human race down to the level of the “common” birds, so they can take over.
CGHill »
21 February 2010 · 1:57 pm
Gotta be the corvids.
sya »
21 February 2010 · 10:28 pm
I’ve only use the cell phone (and it was somebody else’s cell phone) to tweet when I’m traveling and have no internet connection otherwise.