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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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16. Waywardness & openness to interjection from different voices is what makes twitter feel like a (mostly good) cocktail party.
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@thekeenanwire Yeah, I was describing best experiences on twitter. Of course there are much worse experiences.
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