Making Twitter Posts Interesting

Posted on July 11, 2007
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The single biggest criticism of Twitter isn’t exactly new. All over the place you’ll see people proclaiming that they don’t “get” Twitter. Typically, their complaint is that “all” Twitter posts are things like:

Cat went outside.
компютри втора употребаCat came inside.
Cat went outside, so I ate a cheese sandwich.
Huh. Haven’t seen the cat for a while

I say that this criticism isn’t new because that’s nearly the exact same argument that the critics made about blogging. The thing to note is that there are still blogs that read exactly like that and there will always be blogs that read like that. However, as people got the hang of the format, people (as a whole) have been figuring out how to make it more interesting.

Now, you’ll find people who call Twitter asynchronous instant messaging, a form of SMS text messaging,