Summer Food Fun and Drink Chapter 11 The downside of twitter · 11.07.09 by colin newell
Here’s the thing. If I could sprout an extra lobe in my brain and actually incur the ability to distill my more cogent thoughts down to 140 characters…
I probably still would not twitter.
Because I just typed 140 characters and I haven’t said a golly dash thing!
And you know it.
A lovely young lady (and that fact is irrelevant) that I passed on Friday (on campus) mused that she twitters – but is pretty sure that…
a.) She has no followers
and
b.) No one would really care about what she wrote anyway.
And yet I know for a fact that she is usually surrounded by a gaggle of young men…
and she talks a lot to them.
And they listen with rapt interest.
Because she is interesting.
Intelligent.
And pretty. Not that this indelible fact matters.
There are a couple of other nagging problems with twitter (and, oh yea… Facebook).
They are over run by corporations. We know that Facebook is merely a data mining site used by the man to get more marketing info on us consume-droids.
And now large corporations are signing into twitter because they think it’s hip and it’s marketing ore rich for refining.
It is about as hip as my grand-dad rapping with Dr. Dre.
Bottom line – there is nothing useful anyone can say in 140 characters or less. And when millions and millions are doing it – it just makes it less relevant than space dust.
My opinion.
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The other thing I notice about tweets – and I have been reading a few…
Is that they don’t mean a f*cking thing…
Example: and u! Going to dream about that seaweed thing. RT @highheelprncess mr chow is yummy…esp with jewel….virg…and nia…
Without context, tweets are useless – they do not stand alone and without a whole lot of subsidiary reading – they are pointless.
WTF! ROTFLMAO! Seriously!
— Colin Newell Jul 15, 09:13 pm #
Another good example…
http://twitter.com/Starbucks
How does a soulless corporation twitter?
— Jennifer Jul 17, 10:28 pm #