Tweet Tweet!

Birds were born to make the repetitive, pleasant, meaningless sounds called twittering.The tweet is a pure expression in bird form of communication. If homo -sapiens after evolving for countless years, acquiring knowledge in arts, literature and science revert to twitter in their communications; it would seem like a human reincarnation of bird brains in their after life of progress. Lots of people on Twitter do think you’ll enjoy the spectacle of their snacks. They tell you what they’re eating, where they’re going, what they’re consuming, never mind why you should care. They tweet something cryptic to the point of senselessness. This is the tweet that says, whatever its actual content, “I have nothing to say but I want to say something.” The Rise of the Tweet takes place amid an internet-induced cheapening of language, in both good and bad senses. The economic cheapness of digital publication democratizes expression and gives a necessary public to writers, and types of writing, that otherwise would be confined to the hard drive or the desk drawer. And yet the supreme ease of putting words online has opened up vast new space for carelessness, confusion, whateverism. Outside of Twitter, a coercive blogginess, a paradoxically de rigueur relaxation, menaces a whole generation’s prose (no, yeah, ours too). This means that Twitter, officially a microblogging platform, in practice has often functioned in a way opposite to the blog. Of course a tweet is just a tweet, not to be made too much of. Aphorisms are ideally consumed like nuts or candies, a handful at a time. It has also brought about a surprising revival of the epigrammatic impulse in a literary culture. Write as short as you can/ In order/ Of what matters. Few things could appear much worse, to the lurker, glimpser, or guesser, than this scrolling suicide note of Western civilization. Never more than 140 characters at a time? Looks like the human attention span crumbling like a Roman aqueduct. – n+1 Please RT.- Beep Beep the IT Road Runners are here.