The Verdict for me? Guilty!

Everyone who knows me knows I can be, um, shall we say “wordy”. The post certainly made me a bit more mindful of this.

That said, It also got me to thinking a bit further on this idea. One of the things that I think makes Twitter so magical is the restraint of having 140 characters at a time to express oneself. It literally forces you to think about not only what your are going to say but also how to express that idea in as simple and brief a way as possible.

How do we incorporate Twitter style restraints into our daily lives? I know there are many times I could say the same amount of information in 140 characters that I often tend to do in 140 paragraphs. Perhaps one way to conquer the “blah, blah, blah” is to, before speaking, think about how you would tweet the same thing. 

See, there I go again, blathering on like some village idiot. Enough already. Perhaps there are other ways to make Twitter like restraints work for the better in the real world. Have some ideas? Come share them in the forums.