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Unless you're Steven Fry, Ricky Gervais, Miley Cirus, etc etc

I agree with the poster who recently likened Twitter to Mullets. We'll look back thoroughly embarrassed.

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I think CB radio is a more apt comparison - at least for the US, when it was a big fad.

All twitter needs is a song like 'Convoy': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_T0MONtP0w

I agree with the poster who recently likened Twitter to Mullets. We'll look back thoroughly embarrassed.

Keep dreaming, axod. Twitter is here to stay. You'll look back on your twitterlessness and be thoroughly embarassed. :-)

Is there any reason to use twitter if you have no need for social networking? I completely understand people joining a trend like say ricky gervasis to promote his hosting and oprah to promote her show but I honestly don't see a point for most normal people.

Try following people you find interesting, and then reading the interesting things they say and link to.

I honestly thought that's what blogs and rss feeds where for. Imposing an artificial limit on your posts just seem a bit... wrong.

Twitter ought to let you do long form posts, but have a separate, mandatory field where you only have 140 character to entice people to read the rest.

That would reinvent existing functionality, badly. You can already post a long form essay to your blog and then post a teaser + link on Twitter.

Isn't this what Posterous is for?

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