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spatchBELOW PLEASE FIND THE ONE SINGLE ENTRY I WOULD EVER MAKE ON TWITTER
OH BOY WE ARE RIDING THE SURFING EDGE OF WEB2.0 HUMOR HERE TODAY
and besides, let's face it, folks, the only reason you're refreshing that list is to catch the one person who put down "masturbating" and doesn't mean it as a joke.
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spatch NOT USING TWITTER, THAT'S FOR GODDAMN SURE |
OH BOY WE ARE RIDING THE SURFING EDGE OF WEB2.0 HUMOR HERE TODAY
and besides, let's face it, folks, the only reason you're refreshing that list is to catch the one person who put down "masturbating" and doesn't mean it as a joke.
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Re: no one knows my .plan
Date: 2007-04-04 02:24 pm (UTC)Also, if Twitter were really web 2.0 it would be spelled Twitr.
Re: no one knows my .plan
Date: 2007-04-04 02:53 pm (UTC)The hoopla surrounding Twitter is trumping up what's pretty much a stupid simple idea and implying that this is the future of the everything. I've been watching the first season of SNL and one of the recurring Weekend Update jokes has Chevy Chase in front of an inexplicably weird picture, such as a car half-sunk in a pool of mud or concrete, and Chevy starts in with a friendly-condescending "Well, college fads come and go, don't they?" (in the case of the car, it was trying to see how much oatmeal you could fit in a VW bug.)
Well, Web fads come and go, don't they?
At the time, they're a Real Big Deal, but let's keep it realistic here. Unless there's a good use for 'em, let them be used and enjoyed by those who like them and let 'em fade out into obscurity or whatnot (later, Orkut. Enjoy your new Brazilian friends.) Perhaps I'm just sick of the constant hyping up of every new silly web idea, especially after we were so recently burnt by the last time we hyped up every silly new web idea.
Does no one learn from the mistakes of their immediate predecessor anymore?
Re: no one knows my .plan
Date: 2007-04-04 03:18 pm (UTC)Twitter's a toy; a communal toy, for sure--and a toy whose amusement value is directly related to the quality of the playmates with whom you choose to share it.
As such, if you follow people who have aspirations towards entertainment (Lore & Livingston, for instance, or Sifl and Juno), Twitter can be a remarkably amusing feed or c(h)at thread. If you follow the same real-life dullions who are posting "Thx 4 the add" in MySpace comments over and over, you're likely to get bored with it very easily, as the thread becomes a series of "At work...going to bed...watching TV..." ad nauseum.
You personally probably get twitter shoved at you more than other folks because you tend towards the entertaining and whimsical, and not the mundane obsession with your own dull viscera. An audience wants to be entertained, and having random Spatchiness delivered via SMS to a cell phone would be awesome.
But that's just me; I send out random amusing text messages to cell phones semi-regularly anyway, eliciting responses of "Who is this?" which is always nice.
Re: no one knows my .plan
Date: 2007-04-04 03:34 pm (UTC)I often send MBTA haiku to folks if I'm stuck on the train and have nothing else to do, but I make sure to only SMS people who are cool with it, and don't have to pay (or mind paying) to receive text messages cause the last thing I'd wanna do is cost you 10 whole cents to read THE DRUMMER FROM DEF LEPPARD'S ONLY GOT ONE ARM!
Re: no one knows my .plan
Date: 2007-04-04 03:46 pm (UTC)Again--my own take. I got an account to see if Lore could make what I thought would be terribly dreary mundane experience amusing, and indeed he has. As has pretty much everyone else I follow. Dave Neilsen, on the other hand, is all about eating lunch and talking on the phone.