Twitter foreseen from the fifties?

Another excerpt from Ray Bradbury's 1953 Fahrenheit 451 (p. 43):

"Beatty peered at the smoke pattern he had put out on the air. 'Picture it. 19th century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the 20th century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digest. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.'

'Snap ending.' Mildred nodded.

'Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume..."