Frank Kogan

So, in regard to Twitter: in your experience, does it unlock your ideas, distract from them, both, neither (i.e., have no impact on your ideas one way or another)? Not that how it works for you would necessarily be how it works for me.

The thing about Twitter, is it can do all of those things -- it really depends on what you do with it.

It can definitely facilitate the Invisible Message Board impulse, because it gives you the freedom to post absolutely anything, without worrying about developing it or making it interesting -- and then you'll find that those undeveloped, uninteresting things get responses. And those responses will help you turn those undeveloped, uninteresting things into developed, interesting things.

And the same time, Twitter gives me an excuse to not develop ideas or post them elsewhere. I mean, in the past I would have mulled over the Kelly Clarkson album, or Tinted Windows, or VV Brown, or "Behind Enemy Lines" till I figured out what I wanted to say about them on Livejournal -- but because I have Twitter, I just posted my 140-character initial impressions there, and left it at that.