140 Characters or Less
Since joining Twitter back in March and gaining some insightful, and sometimes entertaining, conversation from it, I’ve noticed a change. I now think in 140 characters or less. At random times throughout the day, usually during transitions, I think of short comments to post on twitter. Many of them don’t make it past my “think twice” editing process and others come too quickly that I ignore them to keep the latest message in tact. In either case, Twitter is more than a short messaging service, it is a way of thinking. Every accomplishment, epiphany, or occurrence is Twitter worthy, but you have to draft a nicely packaged, 140-character post to describe it completely. It takes talent and possibly abbreviations or at worst, multiple updates. In the end, it’s the search for the perfect Tweet, rich with context and content, but sparse in characters, and hopefully praised with responses, favorites, and re-tweets.
