Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

All a-Twitter: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder why - all in 140 characters. it's not just the twords that make Twitter interesting, it's the character limit, the implicit constraint of being interesting, witty, informative - in short, of being worthy of the limited attention of your followers. The best tweets of Twitter [...] are more epigrammatic than newsy. Twitter demands writerliness in a way that instant messages, text-messaging, and even blogging don't. The question "What are you doing" is really an excuse to polish up the tiny moments of life, just as the best writers have always done.