When Tweets Are Not for Real Life

This started as a Facebook status..

The whole Twitter thing has turned into a pile of BS. Cliquely-political-campfires, post-modern-intellectual-nihilism, buy-my-shitism, listen-to-my-podcastism, I-have-a-nice-new-blogposttastic, here’s-a-link-via-a-PR-firm-hello.

It’s not as simple as saying unfollow. Because it’s game. Some say it’s a performance art. There’s nothing I say on that outlet, that I wouldn’t say in real-life to someone.

I guess the real question is, would you address a group or a single person in real-life like you do on Twitter? Would open up your notebook and point repeatedly at the real-life equivalent of a blog post? Would you repeat things incessantly (in effect retweet) that you heard from people you want ingratiate yourself with?

Those College Humour videos of Twitter in Real Life are trite reflections on the medium, but would you act like you do on Twitter and would you tolerate it?

December 8th, 2009 at 12:01 am • Filed in Geekery



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One Comment to “When Tweets Are Not for Real Life”

  1. Allan Cavanagh Says:
    December 8th, 2009 at 1:35 am

    1. Yes, after an introduction.
    2. Yes, if I thought it was good enough.
    3. No. Never.

    I commented today that the stream is getting polluted as more and more apps have Twitter integration, so if users so much as fart it’s reported. This is annoying, and potentially crippling.

    As for the cliques, conversation gave way to this a long time ago. Twitter as conversation is no more immune to clique forming as anything else. Seeking out the reflected opinion (if you have an opinion in the first place) is part of social life.



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