the kicker

A-Flutter for Satire

April 5, 2009

Twitter is, like, so five seconds ago. In its place, the jokesters over at Slate V are introducing…Flutter, the “nanoblogging” service that limits users to twenty-six characters. Because, seriously, who has time for 140 anymore?

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.