2. As McLuhan and Ong have taught us, printed words are orality turned into space: words on a page sit next to each other in alignment.
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13. A tale told on twitter acquires some of the characteristic of oral storytelling, broad characters, sharply defined action.
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@HeerJeet Heyday of blogs encouraged bloat; 5000 words to tell a 500 word story. Now we have 500 word story in 3-or-fewer tweets. -
@erlking@HeerJeet 500 *character* story? Words:tweet ratio seems to be around 20:1-ish. >20 tweets for 500 words? https://sites.google.com/site/miningtwitter/questions/frequencies …
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@HeerJeet This is a positive development, in my opinion.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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