When twitter hit the scene I was very intrigued. I heard a lot of skepticism on the street but the idea of a pure and simple text based application will always be near and dear to my heart. The economy of a 140 character post is genius and lends itself to poetics. We’re now in the age of micro - blogging, customer service, life observation, political reporting, activism, comedy, philosophy, weather reports, it goes on and on. Follow and be followed. Through the window of a page of collective steams there’s a wonderful sense of now.