Comments on: Twitter: What are you doing?

By: Fern

Fern — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:46:38 +0000

I suspect it was always this way, but never before have we had such an alarmingly facile vector through which to channel our infinite self-regard.

You’re probably right.

If it’s called Twitter, does that make the users twits?

LOL!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:21:52 +0000

If it’s called Twitter, does that make the users twits?

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:10:38 +0000

“I suspect it was always this way, but never before have we had such an alarmingly facile vector through which to channel our infinite self-regard.”

Also made me laugh.

By: zach.

zach. — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:10:38 +0000

the crucial step!

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:56:21 +0000

Channel, and distribute, Zach!!

By: zach.

zach. — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:52:47 +0000

Fern,

I suspect it was always this way, but never before have we had such an alarmingly facile vector through which to channel our infinite self-regard.

By: pennywit

pennywit — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:39:23 +0000

Use #1: Keep tabs on your kids.

“Son, I expect you to ‘Twitter’ every hour … ”

Aside from that … every news article I’ve read about it reports that the thing is dreadfully inane.

–|PW|–

By: Fern

Fern — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:36:42 +0000

I suspect the inane and the valueless will weed itself out, eventually.

Considering the number of inane and valueless blogs that are still out there–and that their numbers are growing–I seriously doubt your prediction will come true. I don’t know if always was this way, but myspace, facebook, twitter, et al have proven that we are currently a very self-absorbed people.

By: Trudy W. Schuett

Trudy W. Schuett — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:52:39 +0000

Funny — most of these same things were being said about blogs 5 or 6 years ago. So I guess, as with blogs, which took some time to become a needed function, so will Twitter.

I suspect the inane and the valueless will weed itself out, eventually.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:08:50 +0000

1. I already have a wife who asks this question, quickly and frequently. Since the introduction of the Global Husband Positioning System (i.e., cell phones and IM) this has really gotten to be quite an exact science.
2. I am already, as this blog painfully proves, preposterously self obsessed, and pushing my every thought, movement, crisis, challenge, failure and experience out to the waiting millions. Plus I have … a BlackBerry, okay? I need another… thing?! (what is it? an “app”? a “platform”? a “social space”? a canker sore?) to obsess over?
3. No. Just no!!

Made me laugh.
And I’m with you on this one…