Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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So that animation was highly amusing. I feel like they hit on a lot of the problems with twitter. Especially in the fact that people who tweet really are talking to no one. When I post on twitter it is less of an intentional message and more of a release of randomness from me. I feel like in other writing environments there is a definite audience that you are talking to. I imagine that no one really is reading my tweets. Even if they are reading my tweets it probably just goes in one ear and right out the next. The purpose of micro blogging is to release a sort of knowledge from within oneself that one feels they must randomly use.
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Thank you for your thoughtful post. I agree with the points you make. At first I didn't think Twitter was a good thing. However as you say people tweet for themselves not others. So I have began to change my view on Twitter. I do not necessarily think this is a problem, it is just a different form of writing. Thank you for the post.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this interesting post. I completely agree that it feels like no one is reading my tweets, but have you thought that maybe people you don't know are reading your tweets? I ask this because it seems to me that there are very few ways to interact on Twitter. Either you retweet, or favorite it. There isn't a real comment feature like Facebook has. You also might want to consider either linking to or embedding the video in this post as an outside reader would have no idea what video you are referring to. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this wonderful post. This is exactly how I feel about twitter. Who cares about people they don't know except if they are famous, People only really reblog their friends and even then they probably don't remember what they retweeted earlier that day. But what if people you don't know actually know read your tweets. Don't people find that crazy?
ReplyDeleteThank you for this atrocious post. I completely disagree and am now going to hunt you down and hurt you.
ReplyDelete^That could be a twitter post. Sure, it's possible no one would read it, but if someone did, don't you think it would spread to at least a few other readers? Besides making your blog more popular (you can thank me later), you can now be at least somewhat certain that someone you do not know is reading this. This is public information. The audience might be nonexistent, but the potential audience is in the billions. Is your purpose so self-serving now?