What is in a Twoosh?

Tonight I’m getting the gears for using too many ellipses on Twitter. Some claim I do so to obtain a “Twoosh.” (i.e. use all 140 characters)

Ellipses, in case you don’t know, are the dot dot dots between thoughts in a written stream of consciousness. I use them everywhere. Always.

Okay I don’t use ellipses on MacMerc (RSS issues), but anyone who has chatted with me on iChat in the last few years knows I use them a lot.

It is alleged that I use them to pad my tweets. It is assumed that I’m typing 3 periods when I am actually hitting Option-Colon. Try it now.

Still, people accuse me of wrong doing—for striving for the Twoosh. Actually all I’m striving for is to get out my whole thought. I’m wordy.

Using ellipses actually saves me characters by allowing me to separate my thoughts with less characters than a space and a period would use.

The use of ellipses allows me to get more into one tweet and keeps me from being a serial tweeter that posts many small tweets all in a row.

“But Twooshes are meant to be serendipitous!” they say. Maybe. Who is to say? And, more importantly, who cares? It’s such a trivial concern.

Serendipious or not, Twooshes are not hard to reach. Each line of this post is, in fact, a Twoosh—and no ellipses were harmed in its making.