Twits on Parade

Maybe you’ve noticed: These political blogs can be so gabby. Yap yap yap. You go to some website–democretin.com, republicreep.net, whatever–and there will be a new post for you to read, and the blogger goes on for one, two, sometimes three paragraphs, and each paragraph is a huge heap of sentences, two sentences long or even more, and you just want them to get to the point. This is a blog post, not “Middlemarch,” is what you want to say.

That’s why God invented Twitter–God or whoever. Twitter is for people who find the pace of blogs too sleepy, the content too wordy, the whole blog thing way, way too 2005. It’s an Internet service and a new form of communication that’s about to transform political commentary in much the way blogs have, just as decisively, just as permanently. That’s what I hear, anyway.

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