Pogue on Twitter

by Don Fick January 16, 2009 — last modified November 8, 2009

I like David Pogue. His comments on Twitter were some of the most useful I've seen on the popular microblog service.

In the end, my impression of Twitter was right and wrong. Twitter IS a massive time drain. It IS yet another way to procrastinate, to make the hours fly by without getting work done, to battle for online status and massage your own ego.

But it's also a brilliant channel for breaking news, asking questions, and attaining one step of separation from public figures you admire. No other communications channel can match its capacity for real-time, person-to-person broadcasting.