I thought blogging in general was an incredibly over hyped and pointless phenomenon supported primarily by angsty teen agers. It just doesn't really make sense to me why other people would want to read the majority of text that gets posted to blogs. If you want to present information, or maybe tell a funny anecdote that's fine, but that's not what most personal blogs consist of. Most non-technical or general purpose blogs I have seen have basically been pointless stream of consciousness regurgitations about how someones friend didn't say hello to them while walking by.
Twitter takes the pointlessness of a full blown blog and removes any of the actual useful information from it. You take the lack of any useful application that you find in a blog and further restrict it to 140 characters. Here's a sample "tweet" that is 140 characters in length: "I just saw a car drive by that was the coolest shade of pink ever, like omg it was so amazing I totally want one, I wonder what kind it was" How is this website popular?! Who is interested in reading something that pointless?!
The website opened in 2006 and already has 6 million users, it is already ahead of myspace and only trailing facebook for number of members. Part of the success can be attributed to the race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN to see who can get to one million subscribers (http://www.examiner.com/x-7995-New-Media-Examiner~y2009m4d19-Much-aTwitter-about-nothing).
It may seem somewhat hypocritical to be making fun of a form of blogging in a blog, but I'm just doing this for the assignment, chances are no one will ever actually read these. I know I wouldn't read them.
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