How is Tweeting the new Haiku?

Tweeting is in its infancy. If you think about it it has only just begun. But I think in some ways that it is the technological equivalent of the Haiku. Just like the Haiku it is short and sweet, contains a nugget of knowledge, and is meant to stand alone as a thought.
And yet the differences between a Haiku and a tweet relate to the differences in the state of humanity. There are no rules for the length of a tweet (beyond under 140 characters) and therefore they need not require intense labor in their creation. The Haiku is very precisely organized and proscribed. The rules of the Haiku’s construction influence the content of the Haikus. In our times, we tend to love individuality and choice, and therefore the tweet has no rules for construction; allows different styles and voices to flourish. In our modern times we don’t see the value of a Haiku or a sonnet’s rules in limiting our creative thought. In other times, more rules were thought to demand and therefore produce more creativity and brilliance.
But the Tweet has not yet had its Shakespeare. The sonnet is not an inherently beautiful art form. Its 14-line construction is completely arbitrary even if it is now praised. But with Shakespeare and other great writers, sonnets were lifted into a realm of respect above many other poetic constructions.
The same may be true with tweeting. It may not be until several brilliant tweeters tweet something extraordinary, that tweets are truly respected.