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Comment by rimantas | Hacker News Reader

Twitter is not a technology. Unless you want to call phone calls shorter than 14 seconds a new technology too.

  Twitter is RSS for humans.

Uhm, what? Maybe for some weird breed of humans who cannot digest more than 140 chars and hate context.

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For a lot of sites, the RSS feed is basically a headline and a link to the actual article. 140 characters can be sufficient for those purposes... Not that that's necessarily taxing the limits of RSS or anything though.

I'd call phone calls limited to just 14 seconds a new technology, and I'd love it. Imagine that you could just answer any call because you know that it's not going to degenerate into 5-minute long series of you just nodding to the endless story of the other side.

I would apologize for the use of the word technology for Twitter... but I can't see where I actually used that word.

IMHO Twitter is a medium, not a technology. Not that the specific word we use makes much difference. Call it a genre, if you like.

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