But after reading through a hundred or some random posts, it seems to actively promote the complete thought–just one thought at a time.

As a word fetishist, grammar nazi, and someone who is naturally verbose..I guess I was threatened by this. Twitter, to some degree, operates on the declaration that wordiness precludes clarity. Which, in many cases, is true (and I myself am often so terribly guilty of this).

But I absolutely love language, and I believe that to write well-crafted and fleshed-out concepts is one of the finest things a person can do. The advent of blogging brought me a lot of joy–people worldwide were writing more and writing better. And people were reading it. Then I started blogging too, and the creative freedom was extreme. As I get busier, however, the frequency of posting wanes.

I could totally see Twitter helping me maintain a more active presence in the blogosphere during dry spells, and it’s clearly because posting a quick message is so much more non-committal than a whole blog post (which, ironically, I appear to be writing in your comments section), while the impact of those messages can still be relatively great.

I suppose Twitter is the spiritual successor to instant messaging. It’s more integrative and more useful on the whole, but I suppose (for the English language’s sake) I still fear Twitter being seen as the spiritual successor to BLOGGING. I think it works ideally as a supplement to blogging, not a replacement.

That said, I will give it a chance. Your post has pushed me the rest of the way–I have signed on and will begin building a network.

My hope is that a more steady discharge of thought on a public sphere will actually inspire me to post more on my site. In an ideal world, all the other twitterers would feel the same way. cheers.