It's a Twitter Thing: You Shouldn't Understand

I wonder if haters of certain social media find messages on Twitter and Pownce banal because the missives are so insular--because the messages either assume/require that you know or want to know the person writing them.

If you do, much of what they have to say in streams of SMS messages is compelling or amusing or at least gestural detail serving the same purpose as seemingly random description in minmalist fiction--to create/convey an impression of someone's life--what they're doing, thinking, feeling.

That's cool. And I think it works for hyperlocal or placeblogs as well. If one of these sites is done well, unless you know a place...or want to know a place...they don't make sense. That's how inside, how without context, how fuck-you-if-you-don't-get-it placeblogs ought to be.

And if you buy that, the issue isn't how to scale a placeblog, or a personalty-driven blog/microblog. There are just so many people who will "get it", who care enough and in similar enough ways. I you buy that, the question becomes how deep can you drive that relationship? How much can you make people care as much as possible about you or the place you blog about?