Steven Johnson, in Time: "We are living through the worst economic crisis in generations, with apocalyptic headlines threatening the end of capitalism as we know it, and yet in the middle of this chaos, the engineers at Twitter headquarters are scrambling to keep the servers up, application developers are releasing their latest builds, and ordinary users are figuring out all the ingenious ways to put these tools to use. There's a kind of resilience here that is worth savoring. The weather reports keep announcing that the sky is falling, but here we are – millions of us – sitting around trying to invent new ways to talk to one another."
I never thought of it that way. Twitter is saving us all! I bet the stock market goes way way up today!
sitting around trying to invent new ways to talk to one another
AND YET! No one is asking the most pertinent question of all: "Do you actually have anything worthwhile to say?"
Twitter: solution looking for a problem.
"millions of us â€" sitting around trying to invent new ways to talk to one another.â€Â"
change to:
"millions of us â€" sitting around trying to invent new ways to talk at one another.â€Â"
More words. Less content.
I hate the house style of Twitter. And people speaking in "tweet" language makes me want to shoot myself.
Can Steven Johnson boil that windiness down to 140 characters?
"all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" ?
servicy!
And all the profits Twitter makes will be invested into the larger economy! OH WAIT.
All we need to do is invent more ego driven products and the economy is SAVED!!!!
Also: http://tweetingtoohard.com
"Girl at the gym was checking me out, I could tell she wanted me. A Philly 8, but she had sweaty arm pits. I don't date girls that sweat."
"I'm At the Hottest, Newest..Exclusive club in Ny rite now. I could tell u the name and where..But u couldn't get in Anyway..So why Bother!"
"I've written this week's TIME cover story about how Twitter is changing the way we live-and showing us the future of innovation. Buy a copy!"
oh that site is the greatest
"Raising one gifted child is extraordinarily challenging. Now my daughter has also been assessed as gifted. Am I up to this? Yikes."
That whole thing reeks of some PR bullshit. Suggesting that Twitter has some relevence -- beyond us all getting to play like a 14 year old girl doodling on her notebook--seems to me to be the province of some PR think group coming up with reasons to keep the company in the news. Stand back and look at Twitter for real -- a simple media fad mostly utilized by teens--and the media horde that pimps them out. The rest of the world does.not.care.
BUT CELEBRITIES DO. i thought that was an automatic sign of importance!