He said, Don't all those little tweets, don't all those little sips of online communication, add up to one big gulp of real conversation?

Connecting in sips may work for gathering discreet bits of information, they may work for saying, I'm thinking about you, or even for saying, I love you, I mean, look at how I felt when I got that text from my daughter but they don't really work for learning about each other, for really coming to know and understand each other.