I was thinking about my old Twitter account today and how most of what I posted there is lost to time. That’s probably a great thing considering most of what I posted on Twitter was shitposting garbage, but it just made me think that things like Twitter will come and go but my WordPress blog will always be here for me. As long as I pay for the hosting anyway.
Thankfully, I have an archive of my Twitter posts if I ever feel the need to go trawling through them for the rare gem or two, and I’m starting to realize that not everything posted to WordPress has to be long-form content. When Twitter and related services like Plurk came out, it was kind of a crisis, because then you had to ask yourself ‘should this be a Tweet or does it qualify for a blog post?’
140 characters (Twitter’s original post limit) seemed clever, and a way to push people to be more clever and concise, but in retrospect, it was bad for the internet and online discourse. I hate that culture of one-upmanship that you now find most prominently in Reddit comments. It’s not thoughtful and it doesn’t really add anything of value to my life.
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