Tweet Occurrences
Officially I still don’t quite approve of Twitter, but when I posted here for the first time in let’s not say how long, comments came in almost immediately via that channel. So, Twitter is trending here at Common-Place. I am experimenting with various widgets and plug-ins to get such tweet comments into this space for the many of you out there, especially historians of a certain age, with no plans to tweet in the near future. You should be able to see the initial results in the box at the right of the main page. I have been having a little tweet-debate with William Hogeland over whether liberals should see anything in Thomas Jefferson, following up on the post last week. Seems like there should be some way to post a link with both sides of the back-and-forth, but my twitucation is still pretty thin. “Follow us,” I suppose is one way.
Twitter is rough on debate. Can’t really do it, I think, since Twitter encourages the kinds of pithy one-liners that may be the conclusions of detailed thought processes but don’t reveal the assumptions an arguments that led to them. I’ve found that one can, on Twitter, makes suggestions, expose some of one’s own assumptions, etc., but it’s always going to be a tough place to get into detailed criticism.
Anyway, my position isn’t that there’s nothing for liberals to admire in Jefferson. But I’ll try and come up with something more cogent and post it as a comment on last week’s post … Glad to see activity here! And yes, connecting the blog to Twitter has to be a good idea, on balance, I think.
Comment by William Hogeland — November 16, 2011 @ 12:47 pm