spaceponies

At first I didn't under­stand twit­ter, but I've come to enjoy it.

As a hob­bi­est writer, I appre­ci­ate the chal­lenge of 140 char­ac­ters. Strunk said to Omit need­less words, but twit­ter advances the con­cept. If I have a com­plex or mul­ti­step thought and want to tweet it, on a geeky level I like try­ing to cram it into such a short space.

For exam­ple, no paired em-dashes in a twit­ter sen­tence. Four char­ac­ters. Cram a semi­colon and space in there instead.

When I tweet, the con­straint makes me think harder about lan­guage, about punc­tu­a­tion. Any­thing that makes me think harder, I enjoy.