Use Twitter
Update you friends instantly about what you’re doing
Let's say you have to write a short article about the social networking site Twitter. You're suffering from writer's block, so you hop online and ask, "For work: How does Twitter improve your life?"
So goes a typical post on the increasingly popular and addictive microblogging site. There is essentially one rule: that messages, or "tweets," do not exceed 140 characters. Besides that, almost anything goes. Journalists, businesses, news sites, and celebrities (Britney, Shaq, and Obama) use it to extend their reach. For regular folk, Twitter chronicles the ebb and flow of life—a way to stay connected. Some stick to the banal ("Bathroom break!"), while others get creative: "Twitter in haiku/because we really don't care/what you ate for lunch."
Reader Comments
Twitter is wonderful!
From my personal experience on twitter, it's quite ammusing to me. I love talking to my friends and family on there. Also, you get to talk to stars! I have friends that I keep in tounch with from over 10 years ago. I just love it!
as deep as a puddle
"Twitter is for people who don't have the patience to write more than half a sentence. The result is an impoverished form of communication, where everything seems like it is happening here and now, without context, ambiguity, or interpretation."
Perfectly put. Twitter is the epitome of the shalowification of America.
Twitter is Like Glitter, Mre Ear Bling
It is said if you can't say what you need to in 3 sentences or less, your wasting time.The Twitter craze I consider a fashion trend will fizzle out when the hand held holographic phone comes on the scene.
I just dont know hw we all have managed uptill now with out Twitter. Sure, you need an instant viewpoint, help on cashcab,or one of the gameshows,or a president for those flat and uncomfortable moments, but if all of us paid more attention listening and being present in the moment, we may answer our own questions, come up with great insights and inventions worthy of a publishable essay, or anews cameo. Its just another shiny toy to help line the pockets of the now richest megacorps on the planet, being used as a shiny lure ( a glitter twittery lure) to take your money and further isolate us from our immediate enviornment and concerns, like driving, eating, listening in class, etc. SO if yo wanna look like a cultural king, a successful 21st century person, you wont have that swing unless you got your twitter bling...
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