20. (From memory) Adorno on footnotes: a form where fleeting, digressive thought can find fitful life not available in main text.
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21. What Adorno said about footnotes is true of tweets as well: it's a form for thoughts that might not live elsewhere.
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22. New forms are sometimes worth exploring for their own sake: for the pleasure of learning & mastering their rules & experimenting.
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23. I won't say twitter essay are for everyone. If you try it and don't like it, that's fine too. It's a diverse world.
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24. And I'm confident that other uses of twitter will remain robust. Hitler Cat pictures aren't going anywhere.
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25. In sum, there is probably something more productive to complain about than fact some clown on twitter likes to number his sentences.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted andrew kurjata
26. A reasonable question from
@akurjata:https://twitter.com/akurjata/status/529769177297342464 …Jeet Heer added,
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28. Storify can catch most of a twitter essay, although hard to get the call and response of audience interaction.
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