With Twitter being an upcoming social network site on the social scene, this video brought about the concept of "Flutter" as a new Twitter innovation. This idea of flutter is a parody on Twitter in which the 140 character count is taken to an extreme. Since the Twitter updates of 140 character are taken to be so popular since it is a short and sweet message that does not take up a lot of time. Thus, Flutter takes this ideal to an extreme when it limits the updates to only 26 characters, the length of the alphabet. This parody of Twitter critiques hows the users on the internet always want information in more time efficient and easier ways, where as flutter becomes that by condensing a 140 character update to something such as "Wrking 4 project underwear." While comical, this is just a portray of how a message can be misconstrued when condensed to an unreasonable amount compared to the original message.
This brings the issue of how increasing technology in our lives is making us want things to be shorter and less time consuming. Twitter is just an example in this societal change because it is a modern movement to limit one's "status update" to only 140 characters. By criticizing society's integration with technology and the need for saving time, this video of flutter was brought out to mimic how people want to be a part of such innovative things to a ridiculous extent. Thus, by being a part of society that is becoming more and more fast-paced, Twitter seems to be a perfect fit for people who are always on the go, twittering by phone or by laptop.
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You bring up a good point about how technology is trying to limit the amount of time and effort that everything takes. While nowadays, taking a few minutes or even seconds to update your Twitter account seems like no time at all, maybe in the near or distant future those seconds could be valuable when applied to something else we cannot even imagine. I do agree that Twitter's character length is appropriate, and at this point in our society, it won't be necessary to have to speed up this microblogging process. Posting already takes little time and doesn't need to be that frequent. We will just have to see where technology goes in the future.
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