I think Twitter and other short forms are too “hand wavy,” letting the author off the hook with half-baked ideas. Putting down sentence after sentence forces you to apply logic and emotion to all the corner cases of your topic, which in turn creates more avenues of discussion.

One side-effect of short-form pieces is that since authors are not writing a full train of thought, any follow-ups often deal more with clarifying what the author was trying to say, or expounding on a confusion of the original topic–neither of which is all that useful. After you read a well-thought out essay or letter, the reader knows exactly where the author stands and can respond in kind.

Nice post–thanks for sharing.

Although, the majority of blogs appear to take little thought. I think, when the mood is right, other outlets provide a sufficient medium for cataloging what might be considered ‘epic’ thoughts and ideas.