![]() ![]() And for those who care to participate, it’s a conversation that isn’t restricted to 140 characters or even a click-through. Sure, the bon mots are pithier, but Twitter makes thoughts only as “short” as a reader might perceive them, part of a much vaster conversation containing thousands, maybe millions, of threads - the real-life real-time conversation of music itself. The addition of Spin’s new Twitter feed, edited by Chris Weingarten, might seem to threaten somebody somewhere. The magazines and websites that carry writing and sell advertising, sure, maybe they’re going to die, and especially the notion of consumer guide-style record reviews, which are now as ubiquitous as spam and will surely soon be composed like it. ![]() It seems absurd to me that anybody who wasn’t just making link-bait would question the vitality or importance of music criticism. ![]()
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