See, I’ve tried Twitter for a while now. And I still find it terribly annoying. It’s not a tool that works for me, because in 140 characters I cannot say what I want to say. Also it doesn’t help me spreading my content, if people still have to jump through tiny links. Also, I don’t like to click links, when I don’t know where I am ending up – I might even say this is how phishing works.

We have the Freedom of Speech, not the Freedom of being creative within 140 characters.1Either Twitter is getting too old for me or I am too old for twitter. I don’t want to support the trend to communicate in only 140 characters2. Language can only develop when it’s used without limitations. We have the Freedom of Speech, not the Freedom of being creative within 140 characters.

you’ll never be able to digest all tweets, despite of the following optionNow, why do I ride quibble over this detail? It is because any form of Short Messaging leads to a sheer uncountable mass of soi-disant3 news. Even if some people uphold twitter as the new form of public SMS, it is a fact that you’ll never be able to digest all of them, despite of the following option. If you do, you will soon look like the exhausted version of the twitter bird4 at the beginning of the article.

This is twittering Colbert, talking to oh-so-proud Co-Founder Biz Stone about the service twitter which sooooon will be transferred into a money puking Google-like advertising machine!

By the way – what do you think of the new pullquote feature here?

  1. This is my new pullquote feature – what do you fink about it? [↩]
  2. which includes spaces by the way! [↩]
  3. to stay with the French heading [↩]
  4. Illustration taken from Monkeyworks and altered by me [↩]

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