There’s this time delay with blogging. You put something up, maybe someone eventually sees it, and it might get linked around if you’re lucky. With Twitter, it’s basically text messaging, and it moves really fast … Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, “Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!” And I don’t have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing. So, I got hooked real hard.

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— Chris Hardwick (Yes, the guy from MTV’s Singled Out who is now a pretty well known tech blogger. Awesome interview with him)