Twitter: A new form of haiku?
April 30th, 2008 by Bill
I just posted a notion on Twitter. I don’t know what you call that. Twitting? Doesn’t matter …
The notion was this: Twitter is a like a new form of haiku. I rarely understand what I’m reading.
Not that you necessarily need to say something that requires more than 140 characters. Or that it won’t be long before there are more than 140 characters available for posts. Eventually, I imagine, you’ll be able to post a novel’s worth of … well, stuff.
But quite often, in order to say something worth hearing/reading, you need a bit more than 140 characters. Unless you’re a movie, in which case images are conveying a great deal of your meaning.
I’ve only recently started using Twitter and, honestly, I don’t really use it. I go on to it about once a week, look at some posts, sometimes write something myself, but I’ve yet to see anything in there that’s actually worth reading. Mainly, it just kills some time.
Maybe I just haven’t gotten use to Twitter. Not that it has to be functional (meaning practical). Some things are worthwhile simply because they’re fun. But so far I haven’t found Twitter either useful or fun.
Mostly it seems like a lot of gibberish with the potential for becoming really annoying. But opinions can change.
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