Twitter

God I hate Twitter.

Blogs
Blogging was this crazy revolution in media. Television is one dimensional, unidirectional. It talks to you and tells you what to think. You can talk to your TV and tell it what to think, but the newscasters don't give a damn. But blogging, blogging had power. Especially because of visionaries like Kos who discovered just how powerful the internet was. Or did they create that power? I think they discovered it, because without them someone else would've been the visionary. All of a sudden the public could talk to each other, and they could whine about each other. My girlfriend could break up with me because I never read her fucking Xanga. But despite that, keeping a blog took effort. You had to actually write well enough for people to read your shit.

Effort, it has none
Twitter was invented because somebody thought to themselves: Well blogging is pretty great, but god it's a lot of work. And you have to put together all of those words, all at once? Also, I wish I could read blogs by text message, and even write them by text message.

And so Twitter happened.

You know why the limit is 140 characters? The limit on SMS text messages is 160 characters, and so Twitter subtracted 20 just in case. They said that themselves on Colbert. That is actually how Twitter was created. And now you have congressman and celebrities and your cat all twittering. No...actually, I don't think Twitter is to blame. They aren't the cause of this. What really happened was that Twitter gave the people a voice, and they turned out to be a bunch of retards. You could put in a crack about shooting the messenger, but thanks to Twitter EVERYBODY is a messenger, and most of them should probably be shot.