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I’ve got a problem. I like writing on Twitter much more than I like writing on this blog. I am actually pleased that it exists and I think that 140 characters is the superior blogging format.

Now, let me help you get something straight here. I know damn well that 99% of Twitter is crap. Most people mistakenly respond to Twitter’s prompt “What are you doing?” with what they are actually doing at the time. Eating, lamenting the weather, being depressed. I do not care.

In fact, really only follow @Waiyeecita, @Perrymecium, and @CobaltIfinity. They’re my 1%. “Johnny Depp looks even more like Elijah Wood in IMAX 3D than he does on the posters. If nothing else, see it for the Tron Preview”. That little tidbit of information is actually something I wanted to know, something that doesn’t warrant a blog post, and probably wouldn’t come up in conversation considering that this is real life and not Seinfeld.

Beyond passively partaking, I like writing. This is because most of the hatred that I want to archive in the cloud for all of time is already instantaneous and under 140 characters. “Quentin Tarantino should have won Best Director for most Nazi’s killed in a movie,” is all I wanted to say. It’s still relevent a day later, but I probably wouldn’t have been motivated to say it if I had to wait or if I had to write a coherent post.

Tweets are not without thought either. Like I’m sure my 1% does, I pause for a bit to think about each tweet that I send out. It’s a punchline. How do I make it fit? Is this how I want to say it? This might make me a tool, but since I already have a blog, I don’t think it really matters.