This has become a big thing. I remember when it came out a friend was all excited about it. "You talk about stuff and can only use 120 words!" Or something like that. If you've been here before, you know that's not near enough words for me. I'm deep. Or full of shit, could go either way. However. . .
I know I'm not in the mainstream with my thoughts on this. I does give me to wonder though if low these many years down the pike from the introduction of Twitter if we're using it correctly? Should this be the medium in which we declare the basis for our deepest beliefs and policies? Don't we need to say more about these things? Don't we need to provide attributions for our quotes? I don't know.
I do think that tweets are great for stuff like, "Getting hammered at the dive bar with a woman I think I know!!" Or, "I'm done with that sonofabitch and leaving for Tibet to become a monk-ess!" Very cool for mini-rants, describing your latest epiphany, bragging about your bitchen new girl/boy friend. Very good indeed for all that.
But do we, possibly, in the not distant future want to read the State of the Union Address in a series of tweets? I don't think so, I mean, if nothing else it lacks the gravitas that such an address should have, no?
#WTF you talkin' 'bout fool?
This one caught my attention for obvious reasons- lol. And, yes, I'm concerned as well that the State of the Union address may very well be headed for Twitter. The good news? We won't have to listen to him fir hours!
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