Twitter has let users down yet again.
Steve Jobs is presently delivering his keynote speech at the MacWorld Conference. This is an extremely significant event for industry players. Most cannot make the conference and are forced to locate alternative means of following the news. Streaming video and live blogging, such as what Duncan Riley is doing at TechCrunch, provide a couple of options; however many are turning to Twitter because it’s arguably the fastest and most interactive of the lot.
In that sense Twitter has really begun to play …

Forrest: Is tumblr an alternative to … twitter?
Mike: Sort of – Twitter is a microblog, which limits you to text entries of 140 characters or less, which is virtually nothing; only a sentence or two at most.
Tumblr falls into a category of web apps called tumblelogs, which do not have character limits and can also include mixed media such as images and video. However like microblogs, posts to tumblelogs are expected to be quick and relatively unedited – perhaps a quote here or a thought there, but not like the …