Historical Tweets

I guess the reason why I don't like Twitter is that I don't like the idea of having history chronicled by Tweet. It's not something I can easily fit into a historical context. Can you imagine Twitter at the battle of Waterloo? It would just be a bunch of Frenchmen going “Oui are so fucked”. Or at the WWII siege of St. Petersburg you'd have these 140 character strings of Russians being depressed. And you can't limited a depressed, existential Russian to 140 characters. Look how long Brothers Karamazov is.