Bravo! This is a must read for all my twitter hating friends. I love them, but like this author writes:

“Twitter is very obviously not the answer to everything, and it never should have been portrayed that way; but it also very obviously is not the death of humanism.”

This dialog about the value of twitter reminds me of the days when I used to despise MySpace. It was ugly, and most of what was on it was tripe, but eventually I accepted that it was a format that many people felt comfortable communicating in.? In the end, how can I judge what and how other people choose to communicate. It is certainly their right, as its my right to choose what to listen too. And so it is with Twitter. I started using it two years ago, and I didn’t get it. It’s just been in the last few months that I’ve understood how it can be an effective communication tool, and so I use it.

The time will come when something more effective at communicating small chunks of information to a large audience will be invented. I will then be skeptical about it, then self-righteous, then adopt it, then evangelize it. In exactly that order.

A communicator should embrace any medium that allows them to express what they need to express. If its photography, prose, MySpace, Twitter, or something that hasn’t been invented yet lets avoid judging the medium, and instead process the content.

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