Intellectual Property Law

Short form

By Susan Crawford

I’ve had a Twitter account for a while, and at the beginning of this month I started writing feverish tweets about OneWebDay progress - I’d been told that was essential.

Well, last night on a call someone said: “I don’t email any more. I don’t IM. I don’t blog. It’s all Twitter.” And then that person made sure that I had a special *OneWebDay* Twitter account, so that people would be following the DAY rather than me. And I dutifully followed her into a wild (for me) world of Twittering - the OWD Twitter account is following almost 700 people, and hoping to soon be followed by just as many. Come watch at http://twitter.com/OWD! I’m watching all the tweets go by, myself.

But that’s just the beginning. There’s Twhirl, for running multiple Twitter accounts (that’s me). There’s Twemes, for aggregating all of those tweets.

And, most beguiling of all, there’s Twistori, to lose a few hours over. (ht:  Cory Ondrejka)

I have been blogging since September 2003, and I know I’ll enjoy getting back to it once I have a bit more time to reflect. (Right now, we’re busy here at the Susan Crawford blog.) All those tweets have to link to something. But I can see the tremendous appeal of the short form.

Here’s a fan site - note the long list of twitter-puns.

Full post as published by Susan Crawford Blog on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).