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Putting Twitter into perspective

As you may have noticed, I have been experimenting with Twitter. A couple of my friends got me onto it, and I'm always keen to see what new ways there are to communicate. The interesting question is where all this is talking to each other is going to end up.

In the post-Internet era we seem to have gone through a number of stages of evolution in our communications.

First there was plain old email. We're still using it as our primary mode of speaking to each other. Messages can be as long as we like. We can create messages with all the sophistication of documents. And we can attach other documents to our messages. Universally, we understand email. And it uses the concepts we are familiar with - mail boxes for example.

More recently, with the rise of Web site, we've started to get familiar with the use of blogs. Blogs were the first stage of impersonal communications, communicating to everyone who might be interested in our views rather than someone - or some people - in particular.

In parallel with all this, teenagers found SMS messaging. Since mobile phones were cheap and portable by comparison with the PC, kids used SMS messaging to keep in touch. But SMS keeps to the personal, being primarily a one-to-one mode of communication.

And now Twitter, perhaps the Web's answer to SMS phone messaging. Twitter recognises that the phone is evolving and that the merger with the PC is underway. So Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters - more than typical SMS messages but less than a typical blog. And Twitter makes explicit the idea of "tuning in" to someone who perhaps is interesting. Once again, Twitter reverts to the public messaging concept. And, because we can also send messages to specific people, it's possible to see Twitter becoming a kind of halfway house replacement for SMS and a lot of email - the kind we did before we clogged it up with attachments.

Clearly, there is a vast appetite on the part of we humans to communicate. We're insatiable. We like different ways of doing it. And we like the idea that what we have to say might be so interesting that someone - anyone - out there, someone we've never met, might be interested .

So let's keep talking I say. It's got to be better than ignoring each other.

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