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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      7. Another good point from @billmon1: "Writing is hard work; talking is fun & easy (at least for me). So Twitter wins out."

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      8. As per @billmon1 tweeting does feel like talking (even though we are in fact writing). A big part of its appeal.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      9. As McLuhan & Ong has taught us, orality is natural. We are hard-wired (most of us) to talk as toddlers. Writing is much more artificial

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      10. So tweeting is a form of writing that actually feels like talking, which opens us discussion for people who are not writers by habit.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      11. There is a weird intimacy to twitter, rooted in its conversational nature. People open themselves up in ways they wouldn't elsewhere.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      12. Certainly there are people I only "know" through twitter who feel like friends. Not sure what to do with that, but it's there.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      13. An example: I (and others) were sad when Ta-Nehisi Coates left twitter. We still read his essays & can email him, but that's different.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      14. Pleasure of having TNC on twitter was not only could you "talk" to him but others (strangers) could interject. So it flowed like talk.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      15. The waywardness of a good twitter conversation is exactly like good conversation. Start in one place but it could end anywhere.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014
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      16. Waywardness & openness to interjection from different voices is what makes twitter feel like a (mostly good) cocktail party.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Apr 2014

      17. Oddly, I started this series with doubts about twitter & twitter essay but thinking out loud (and getting response) feel more positive.

      4:36 PM - 9 Apr 2014
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        1. Kalli Anderson‏ @kallipearl 9 Apr 2014
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          @HeerJeet don't stop now.

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