4th April 2009, 12:55 AM
I don't really get it. I keep hearing about "twittering" lately, and honestly I don't see how this is any different from anything already available. It's apparently putting up messages, but isn't that what "blogging" is? What's the difference? Apparently it has a character limit. Is that such a hard thing to impose on one's self? So these people are all logging into some twitter site on their cell phones and slowly typing in small messages every 5 minutes. That's fine I guess if they can stand the tedium, but I fail to see how it's any different than doing the same thing with a message board or "blog" or even instant messanger.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)