Twitter

The more I think about Twitter, the more I am inclined to believe that its current popularity can be seen as an effort nostalgically to return (at least in America) to an idealized "democratic" world (as Jefferson described it), where citizens directly interacted with one another, with no intervening "state/main stream media" filters telling them what they (the citizens) should be telling one another.

So Twitter is, as I see it, at heart, a longing to be part of a local community/home-town situation, with living and breathing persons wanting simply to talk to one another, just wanting, in the most basic of human longings, to say "hello" and telling one another "what's going on, neighbor." (Of course, breathing is not part of the cyberspace universe).