The subject of Twitter

It may certainly sound like pushing a fad a tad too far, but the introduction of twitter-ability as a skill being built through a compulsory subject at an Australian university sounds like an interesting experiment.

Ignore the Twitter reference for a minute, effectively what this means is training people to send a message within defined restrictions, in this case, 140 characters. Not unlike writing a headline or reporting a piece of news for television in say one minute. So long as they don’t teach a new language of unwieldy abbreviations, inelegant misspellings and abstruse neologisms…