tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320283400048601361.post8223320250604771456..comments2012-06-23T17:31:11.147-04:00Comments on PaperClips&PostItNotes: Why I'm Afraid of TwitterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320283400048601361.post-22015635277573335662010-05-18T14:03:59.946-04:002010-05-18T14:03:59.946-04:00Statistics have come out since David Carr's pi...Statistics have come out since David Carr's piece that might give you more comfort. Only 7% of Americans are actively using it, and the majority of those people merely to follow tweets by companies and businesses. And even from that slice of the pie, "active user" means that they are following the tweets not by logging into twitter, but just by having them sent to facebook or another web application they use. Judging from this there doesn't seem to be any danger of loftier forms of composition being supplanted. The craving for material more than 140 characters isn't going anywhere. Thankfully.<br /><br />Source: http://www.edisonresearch.com/twitter_usage_2010.phpBKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320283400048601361.post-48939200647180715032010-05-17T11:43:00.392-04:002010-05-17T11:43:00.392-04:00Yet another great post! I would say that as long a...Yet another great post! I would say that as long as Twitter does not supplant other forms of writing and is used as a complementary entity, it's actually an interesting evolution in writing. Writing with constraints is a very post-modern creation in its own right, so you could say it's a branch off that tree. <br /><br />(I hate Twitter though, so I hope I'm wrong)Erichttp://www.erickarlan.comnoreply@blogger.com