The endurance of Twitter

David Carr argues that Twitter is here to stay (via):

The expressive limits of a kind of narrative developed from text messages, with less space to digress or explain than this sentence, has significant upsides. The best people on Twitter communicate with economy and precision, with each element — links, hash tags and comments — freighted with meaning. Professional acquaintances whom I find insufferable on every other platform suddenly become interesting within the confines of Twitter.

There are certainly downsides to less detail in communication, but detail does not run parallel to the needs and wants of the information age. Now, the priority is on the vector that leads to the information; detail is for a later time in the generation of nano-second attention spans. Carefully crafted bursts of information can save time, energy, and mounds of frustration that often occur in endless pools of data. Why wouldn't that sort of efficiency last?