Not sure whether to write this on this post or to your other Twitter post, but did you see the post from the person who has turned his last 2 years(I think it is 2 years) of Twitterings into a hardback book? http://friendfeed.com/e... - Maxine

This should be sent to every anti-twitter curmudgeon out there! - Bora Zivkovic

Margaret Wente actually specifically mentions "My Life in Tweets", she says "What happens when broadcasting your life becomes a full-time job? When you're always Facebooking and Twittering and blogging and instant messaging, where do you find the time to live the life you're supposed to be describing? What happens when we completely disappear up our own navels? I guess what happens is we write about that. The first Twitter autobiography has already been published. It's called My Life in Tweets." - Richard Akerman

(Wente is clearly displaying a type of "concern trolling", where criticism is expressed as worries or concerns.) - Richard Akerman

Will the concept of Mindcasting http://friendfeed.com/search... (as opposed to lifecasting) blow her mind? If all you see on Twitter is uninteresting chatter, you are following the wrong people. - Bora Zivkovic

And quite frankly, with clients like Tweetdeck, it's not even about following people necessarily. You can follow topics of interest (data finds the data and all that) - Deepak Singh

That's a good point Deepak - I really should do a post about how using TweetDeck is a qualitatively different experience - I have some hashtag searches that are always active, and I can always pop up a new one as needed. - Richard Akerman

That's pretty much how I use Twitter now. I keep a core set of people to follow (and have a couple of groups), and the rest are search terms, including some Booleans - Deepak Singh

another important point is that Twitter and FB status are short because they're consumed on mobile phones. Wente's approach of following 5 people and sending 3 tweets through the web interface is really fundamentally bad journalism - like trying to understand a building by looking at one side of it from outside, rather than looking at it from all directions, inside and outside. - Richard Akerman

Tweetdeck is a real memory hog, though, which is the only reason I don't use it. People with better computers than I have are complaining how it slows everything down, while deleting it speeds everything up. - Bora Zivkovic

Tweetdeck and other twitter-desktop apps were developed only because Twitter itself has very poor functionality and interface. Why don't i have such buttons as RT on Twitter.com? Why program itself don't make my URL tiny automatically? Why should i do it by myself? go to tinyurl.com or use clients like tweetdeck? Why don't I see replies from ppl who i'm not following? List can go on and on. All of these things on Tweetdeck without problems. But it's only because program is lack of functionality itself. - Alexey