Introducing some seriously fat tweets.
So I resisted Twitter for as long as I could. Then after I got through resisting, I still didn’t use Twitter because I was too busy to use social media at all. Just when I thought I was ready to launch my podcast in earnest, I discovered my house needed massive rework in order to provide me with a usable office. I had a recording studio, but the office was more important.
Well, the house is redone. The office is pretty usable. And I’ve almost mastered using my iPhone as a PDA, and I’m reasonably productive again. I have enough client work to keep me fed and not enough to break my back. So, no further excuse exists not to use Twitter.
Except that Twitter drives me mad.
But now I’ve used it enough to love it, so I need to do something with my madness other than avoid Twitter.
Solution: CCCHHHIIIIRRRRPPPP!
Given that what drives me mad is the infernal terseness of it all, I’m reserving to myself the right, starting today, to make enormous tweets here on my blog, and then use Twitter to point to them.
Actually, the concept is a little more refined than that. My hope is that, about once a week, I’ll take a single tweet of someone else’s, and riff on it here in a way that 140 characters wouldn’t permit.
My next post will demonstrate.
August 16th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Please define “riff” as you used it in this article. All the diction-, wiction-, and fictionaries fail to enlighten me.
August 16th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Google as follows:
define: riff
Look at the definition from Wiktionary.
Riff is a common term in the blog world. I think it’s an extension on the jazz improvisation idea. Generally means that one person creates a response to or variation on an idea started by another.