I am so tired of defending Twitter. (Not that they need me to. These are guys that have Google on caller ID and Stephen Colbert on speed dial.)
I am just so bored with how mainstream attention is gained only along side the sneer of unengaged pundits pretending it is all a passing craze.
Human to human communication is a hard wired need. Think about it like music. Every tribe does it. Differences are executional, not emotional. Tools get better. Genres come and go. But some stay and change what comes after forever.Mainstream media tried to treat Blogging — and now Microblogging — as a fad. They want Disco. I see Rock & Roll.
Blogging, like Rock in the 50s, is an irrepressible uprising with many offspring. Twitter is simply a venue. A microblogging platform. It is just a well designed space where casual communication (a cappella music maybe) happens. But unlike legendary music venues, CBGB or the Royal Albert Hall, Twitter is nonpartisan. Country, Punk, R&B, Classical. Even self-echoing Jazz. The Twitter club doesn't care. There is no booker. There is only infinite space. No matter what freaky music you are into, there's a room where it is playing. Sure the Wossy room gets a crowd. Doesn't mean that is where the most lasting conversations are found, the music that could change what comes after forever.
My stretched metaphor's point is mostly that this new old media obsession with Twitter only trivializes a successful, innovative venue. But does nothing to understand a whole new kind of music.
Follow me on Twitter - if only to quote Donna Summer lyrics @ me.
If Donna Summer Twitter she would say stuff like this: "God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful."
I just found that on a DS quotes page. Awesome.
Candace, I believe nobody really has a problem with Twitter. There's nothing to defend so long as the conversation is real. The issue I have is the constant search for ways to monetize it... it's a big grrrrrrinding pain ! let people have their fun and frivolity and let networkers keep in touch just leave the god damn marketing out of it, please.
You are right, non-Tweeting squares like making fun of people who Twitter because it is still seen as a Nathan Barley-type trendy thing. Thinking it will last a lot longer than the hula hoop though.
John, I agree. Why are so many people worried about somebody else's business model?? meh
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