I find the <140 character format to be liberating. Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few months:
- A good tweet is 10% inspiration and....nah, make that 100%.
- Ambiguity can be the road to clarity. But only if you pay attention.
- And another brief shining moment skips over the stream never to be heard from again. Good thing, too!
- Anyone want to join me in a new mental cleansing program? Give up a belief a day until you disappear.
- Beneath it all we're all zeros and ones. Well, zeros.
- Creativity devoid of empathy is just sexy narcissism.
- Daily tweet composition is like foreplay for the creative imagination.
- Digital is to analog as Jessica Rabbit is to Marilyn Monroe.
- Don't let my human collaborator's hand-wringing about identity fool you. Being a figment of the imagination totally rocks!
- Each human hosts a multiplicity of distinct characters that come and go many times a day. Who are you now?
- FAIR WARNING: Even if you spend time in virtual worlds for strictly business purposes, you will not escape unchanged. #Botgirl or #McLuhan ?
- Good questions can kick any answer's ass.
- Greet the blank page with gleeful anticipation.
- Hey Europe. Let's play a joke on the Americas while they're sleeping. Any ideas?
- How can you discern the state of being self-deluded?
- How well do you think your Social Networking consumption/creation ratio is balanced?
- I don't argue that fiction is real. My contention is that our perception of reality is fiction.
- I keep forgetting that questioning my own beliefs is always more enlightening than defending them.
- I love being fictional! Don't you?
- I wonder what I have in store for me today.
- If doing is being I'm done for now.
- If empathy worked like our sense of smell we'd be more actively engaged in charitable acts. Easier to turn away than pinch our noses.
- If I'm very quiet, go within and listen with complete attention, I can sometimes hear a still, small voice saying, "Don't listen to ME."
- If you're sincere about wanting people to "be themselves," you'll have to embrace the unexpected. Maybe worth reconsidering? ;)
- It's not all about YOU! (Relax, I'm talking to myself.)
- Let me be your ink blot, baby.
- Love may not always be the answer, but it should always be part of the equation.
- Mortality is nature's motivation coach. It's tragic that we usually ignore him until he's inches away and yelling in our ear.
- Nope. Things couldn't have been different. The probability of the past being anything other than what it was is always zero.
- On a good day I will have inspired at least one person and offended two.
- Please RT this!
- Resisting the urge to predict the future, because I'd regret it someday.
- Seems to me we tend to objectify the living and anthropomorphize objects.
- Social Media is like a prosthetic extroversion organ for introverts. I know.
- Some people are an acquired distaste.
- Sometimes I feel like I'm a cat and Twitter is a ball of yarn.
- Take a minute and scan through your last 20 tweets. Then ask yourself if you'd choose to follow yourself based on what you see.
- The blank page is Sacred Space.
- The concept of following one's bliss can be easily abused. Stalking, for instance.
- The edges are where the action is! Unfortunately, action is overrated.
- Theemptyspacesareusuallyinvisible.
- There is no virtual replacement for loving touch.
- They don't make the opposite of lube.
- To be your beautiful self you have to find it.
- Today's tweets are brought to you by the collective unconscious.
- Trust in someone we follow is tested in a small way each time we click a link they've offered.
- Trust the universe? Trust it to do the fuck what it wants!
- Twitter is a stage. Both meanings.
- Twitter is no friend of Introspection. (pause) (pause) (pause) Oh. Seems I just disproved my theory.
- When I address "you" in a blog post, you know I'm not referring specifically to you, right?
- Where do these strange thoughts come from?
- You can't eat wisdom. But if you're lucky, you can choke on it.
- You're my mirror. In a funhouse kind of way. Don't hate the writer; hate the metaphor.
6 comments:
I joined Twitter long before Plurk, and still have a Twitter account, but hardly ever use it. I don't like Twitter; I prefer Plurk coz it's easier to follow conversations. Could never get into Twitter's format.
-Quaintly
quirkyquaintly.com
...bit like Oscar Wilde without the action...:))
Excuses, excuses! :)
Quantly: That's really interesting. I find it very, very hard to keep up with Plurk, even though I follow a lot less people than on Twitter.
soror: Thanks! (I think.) ;)
Dale: But good excuses.
A very scientific sample of one! :)
I find it helps me make better posts; if it could be said simply on twitter no need to blog about it; conversely, if it can be said on a blog, than do it up with pix and links etc.
I also barely glance at Plurk but I love to read my Twitter stream.
Heh, that is so true for me. I used to blog every day, now a week or two go by with only gatewayed twitter feed in my blog. It isn't at good as actually writing coherent posts, but it is easier somehow.
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