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Apparently, frequent Twitter user John Mayer now thinks Tumblr is better than Twitter. He even wrote a Tumblr post about it:

And call me crazy, but I don’t think it’s the healthiest thing in the world to read scads of mentions/@replies and effectively open the floodgate of other people’s approval/disapproval. Finding out in 140 characters what a stranger has to say about you is like a mathematical equation without an established value of ‘x’. Who are you, stranger? What do you stand for? What do you like, and if it’s not me, then what does move you? What DO you look up to? Once I find that out, I’ll know how disappointed I should be.

This is where Tumblr comes in. It’s the future of social networking if your image of the future features intelligent discourse. I love reading other Tumblr users replies, because they’re thoughtful by virtue of the fact that if they’re not, they’ll bring the intellectual property value of their own blog down, and that’s a commodity on Tumblr.

First: John Mayer + Intelligent Discourse = Hahahahahahahahahahaha.

Second: I've written about Twitter. I'm pretty active on Twitter. I also love Tumblr, which I use as a digital scrapbook of things I find on the internet. It's a super-easy blogging interface that's good for a bunch of different things (though not as easy as Posterous.)

But it's almost as if Mayer thinks he has the ability to make Tumblr the website of the moment, which is hilarious—Mayer's frequent Twitter use made him more visible in pop culture, but he seems to think that he made Twitter into what it is today. Twitter and Tumblr are two very different communication systems that are good for different things. (Although I don't think I'd say that Tumblr is good for "intelligent discourse" either; it works best in short bursts of information, and the social aspects haven't completely gelled yet.) I don't think it's possible for Mayer to declare Twitter to be "pretty much done," but I think it might be possible for Twitter to declare the end of Mayer's pop-cultural relevancy.