“One of the things I remember most about the early days of Twitter, once I integrated it into my daily life and disabused myself of the notion that it was some sort of lame Dodgeball clone1, was that I enjoyed the way it encouraged me to notice things. I remember first becoming aware of this on a solo road trip I took through New Mexico in 2007, where, lacking a traveling companion, I found myself constantly on the lookout for interesting observations to report back to my Twitter following. I’ve never been one to keep a journal (much to my chagrin as an inveterate collector of fancy stationery), but, silly as it may sound, Twitter made me feel like a field correspondent—our man on the Rio Grande—and thus encouraged me to think like a journalist.”
— Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Twitter, Instagram, and the Journalistic Impulse
