People twittering from the street in Iran is an interesting happening that no dictator will ever allow again (Ask China about controlling the Internet and who runs cell towers in Iran?) It was replaced the next week by the death of a freak. It was great fun to know when bizzaro OD’d first. You can sneer at the media and be a superior know it person first. And Arnie has a big knife! Wow, what a dork – we who know that before anybody else are important. Forget the fact that he showed off his big tool by choice to people who choose to be shown at his whim and under his control. He is a movie actor after all!

Twitter is a fun way to pass the time – another entertainment game changer like movies with THX sound.

Some platform vendors are more vindictive than others. Apple in the early 90s was a total police state. Tolerated no dissension. Microsoft at the same time seemed to like it when you criticized them, at least the groups that were in competitive markets like Word, Excel and later Internet Explorer.

On the scale of past platform vendors, Twitter is actually pretty good. I criticize regularly but that hasn’t stopped me from getting help when I’ve needed it. They are very responsive, and professional. And I’m not saying that to suck up! :-)

If I were less of a pragmatist I guess I’d switch anyway. Instead, I’m still using Twitter, but happy to have the discussion about its problems and limitations on Twitter itself, as well as here on my blog, which I still think of as the center of my online communications.