Tidying Up Twitpic and Mobypicture ... Evolving Beyond Twitter
Even though I posted my 1000th tweet recently, I find myself only now discerning the ephemeral, transitory nature of Twitter - and it's associated photo/media services of Twitpic & Mobypicture.
Simply put, everything gets lost in the [twitter]stream. Beyond a day or a week, it becomes entirely unwieldy to attempt to search for posts that are indexed only by time & date. Twitter is indeed "what I am doing right now", but not "what was I doing 3 weeks ago?". Similarly trying to track those more personal posts concerning thinking/feeling/musing is literally wasting time.
Whilst that may be suited to the casual chit-chat of instant messaging, it's to the detriment of micro-blogging; and it's the latter service that I find of use. For like many, such creativity/ability//inclination that I may possess does not extend as far as administering a website or full blog; and my available time is beginning to preclude maintaining all Twitpic's pics, Mobypicture's pics/audio/video, Vimeo's longer vids - let alone Tumblr.
Yet I am moving beyond the now of 140 characters of text and the quick snap or a/v post that I wouldn't care to look at again. I find myself capable of more; and also wondering how many others - having been introduced to accessible blogging through Twitter - will not so much jump to the next fad, but just evolve beyond it.
Perhaps Posterous can service such a group. It's a little early in my own usage to personally assess [hence the present continuance of my Tumblr blog]; however being able to collate my detrius in one spot is appearing increasingly attractive.