Friday, 27 March 2009

tiny art of tweeting

The Daily Telegraph shocks its readers with the news that 'Primary school children must learn to use Twitter and Wikipedia but will not be required to study the Victorians or World War 2 in the biggest shake-up of lessons in a decade.'

After tweeting Mozart for 12 hours, I spoke to Bob Jones on Classic FM Arts Daily and tried to suggest (27 Feb: it's the second item) that people who really mastered the tiny art of tweeting might be developing a similar type of skill to writing haikus. Its power would come not just from what is included, but from what is implied.

The alternative view, that tweeting is for people who talk rubbish and have no friends, is nicely captured here.