The 140 character curse(?)
I’ve been using Twitter (and now Plurk) quite a bit. (Not nearly as much as some, but more than I ever expected.) And while I’ve been told I write in a “telegraphic” style, I do tend to write long sentences (much like this one).
I had a bit of a shock last night when I had an IM conversation with the travelling Plagioclase. I could use more than 140 characters in that little box! But I really found it difficult — even though there’s no character count, I have a good feeling in my fingers for how many times I can hit the keys before the numbers start to go negative.
It felt really weird — I wonder if people’s emails & blog posts are going to get shorter as a result of Twitter/Plurk/whatever overuse? I hope they won’t devolve into txtspk.
