How much can you express in 140 characters?
I had a personal first on twitter last night. The following is a series of tweets back and forth between @andrewbaron and myself last night
andrewbaron What are the top 2 most difficult things about having a kid?
jtoshua realizing your mortal but having to be there for someone else no matter what and realizing how much an impact you can have on another person
That last line sums up the whole conversation, although chronologically it came early in the exchange. The internet is a powerful tool, allowing communication between people who would most likely not have met or even have the opportunity to meet without it. Twitter is a unique form of communication, limiting us to 140 characters per message, yet even with that limit it is still possible to have meaningful conversation beyond telling people about what your having for dinner, or that someone just cut you off in traffic. I’m sold, I believe in twitter now, and beyond that my love of the internet has been reinvigorated. Last night I felt something close to the excitement I can remember the first time I logged onto Compuserve or when I got my first email message, or when I set up my first website and realized someone else was looking at it, and I didn’t even know them. I could go on and on about community, and humanity, and all that jazz, but I feel like its not even necessary. Read into this what you will, but I felt the need to share the connection Andrew and I had with everyone else, somehow it seems important to me, and maybe it will to someone else as well.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:58 am
(Bring back the webcam)