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Susan Sontag: Pay attention to the world | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
While I was reading this rather long essay I suddenly found myself wondering what the hell Susan Sontag would make of Twitter. And what Twitter means for Susan Sontag. They seem like alien universes. Does Twitter kill off long essays? (I was shocked to see an article contrasting paragraph-long posts as "long-form" blogging, as opposed to the 140 character limited Twitter) Should it? What kind of thinking do we get in a world with a 140-character attention span?
UPDATE: Corrected Twitter post limits to be even scarier. Thanks, Greyduck.
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Words, hell. Twitter allots 140 characters, spaces included. It's basically group-IM with a web interface.
Posted by: GreyDuck | March 19, 2007 3:41 PM