I am now, officially, a twit. Yesterday I gave in to temptation and joined twitter, after trying to put it off and avoid it. I see myself as a writer; while I admit my blog entries are usually quite short, I do not see the point of trying to condense ones thoughts into 140 characters. What can one do with such a limit? You can’t debate things as one might in an essay or blog entry. And yet it seems that is the way things are going: the novel and book are giving way to the short newspaper article or tweet, just as the 90 minute feature film is giving way to the Youtube clip. Of course, there are still exceptions to this (the ten hour epic Lord of the Rings being a good example) but short abrupt work seems to be the trend currently.

Thus I gave in and decided to see what the fuss was about. Besides, from what I hear a lot of stuff happens on twitter which as a writer I need to be privy to; all the big movers and shakers, both within the disability sphere and outside of it, have twitter accounts. My blog will still be my main output, of course, but I’m now looking forward to exploring this new shorter form of blogging. In a way it can be seen as a new evolution of prose, and that interests me. I can now be ‘followed’ @matthewgoodsel2