Twitter twitter
– Look what I just ate
Are we really so interesting that the digital universe should open its mouth to even more spoonfuls of streamed consciousness and random upchuck?
Why is it that this high frequency micro blogging is so popular? Apparently 200,000-plus Kiwis operate Twitter accounts.
I’ve always taken a dim view. The whole thing looks like sad attention seekers sticking fingers down their throats hoping to excite passing strangers with what they last ate.
But there must be something in it. I see that brothel House of Divine Milton Keynes recently tweeted to say that Lucia and Karol are working on Sunday. Great.
From his shower Lance Armstrong can tell cycling fans that he’s making the drug tester wait outside. Nice transparency.
The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA is using Twitter to update followers of swine flu. OK.
The All Blacks are getting into it (does “full credit” sound better tweeted?). Pizza Hut recently hired someone to twitter for them (I’ve always used 0800 83 83 83. Am I missing something?).
Seems to me that people (including lots of ‘marketers’) are jumping in if only for the reason that lots of others have, too. Which I guess is fair enough. And, true, members can narrow interests and “interact” just with the tweeters they want to.
But has it changed anything? What problem has been solved? But then the same could be asked of other “social networking” forms. Perhaps problem/solution value assessment isn’t the right way to look at it. This stuff was never meant to be a solution, just a new way of supporting human instincts for sociability. A new 21st Century twist on I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.
If you must.
