“ Twitter, in essence, allows you to attend a great big cocktail party filled with diverse and (typically) civilized chatter. Some of what you hear and say will be frivolous. But the chatter will also provoke, inform, and engage you in a way, and at a volume, you can’t replicate offline.
This is exactly how I’ve always thought of Twitter, and how I’ve tried to explain it to others. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but at this point it seems like everyone is either already on Twitter, or else passionately loathes it without having given it a real shot.
6 months ago