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Tuesday 21 April 2009

I used to think Twitter would never catch on in the mainstream because it’s somewhat stupid. Now I realize I was exactly wrong. Twitter will catch on in the mainstream because it’s somewhat stupid. It’s blogging dumbed down for the masses, and if there’s one surefire way to build something popular, it’s to take something else that is already popular and simplify. My belief that it wouldn’t grow that large was actually more wishful thinking, not because I dislike anyone at Twitter but because I wanted to believe that humans were still able to tell or care about the difference between “headlines” and “news”. I like to think there’s some lower bound to our ADD, and that we reached it somewhere around Facebook. A brief perusal of cable TV, which I don’t subscribe to, would have dispelled that notion quickly enough for me, so I should probably stop prognosticating until I start receiving it again, or at least spend more time in airport bars. MattMaroon.com

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