Of course, some might say that drafting a tweet defeats the purpose of a tweet — if it’s not spontaneous and it’s not about something happening now, what’s the point?
Which brings us to …
“Every new medium has the potential to be an art form,” says Tim O’Reilly. Famous for helping coin the phrase “Web 2.0,” O’Reilly is also the co-author of “The Twitter Book.” “It just takes a while for [the medium] to adapt. When we first started making movies, we just pointed the camera at something, like a stage play. Why do we think that literature won’t change, too?”
I love, love, love Twitter, and I think it’s a great vehicle for creativity. But on the other hand, I have a hard time reconciling the future of literature with Merlin Mann’s poop jokes.
(via @lonelysandwich)
