The fact that Ashton “Toolbox” Kutcher is now the King of Twitter, or whatever the fuck of Twitter he is, ought to tell you something about Twitter.
UPDATE: In today’s (April 19) New York Times Magazine, media columnist Virginia Heffernan, after praising the “cryptic” tweets of Touré (who I once edited—boy, did he love the passive voice back in the day), whines about finding tweets that say she is extremely dumb, and that she “writes like a dog about to be gassed at the shelter.” Hey, maybe there’s something to this Twitter thing after all!
That and the fact that it’s called “Twitter”… Talk about an overhyped “innovation.”
It should also tell you something about CNN, right?
Isn’t Twitter just a blog for people what can’t speak proper sentences?
You can set it up so that every time Ashton twats, it goes right to your cell phone.
Eh. It’s like anything else–there are your Ashton Kutcher sectors of Twitter, and then there are the cool, fun sectors. Would you dismiss the whole of America if an Ashton Kutcher movie was #1 at the box office? You’re past that phase, surely. Just think of Twitter as a microcosm.
THE FUTURIST! admires you, Commander Kenny. Though, it is inane, THE FUTURIST! participates and hates himselfn for it. A self-flagellation will ensue, after alerting John Lichman via tweeting re: beating. He likes to know when this occurs.
“I think it’s really important that Twitter is not about celebrities. It’s not a platform for celebrities,” he said. “In all these interviews and things, it’s been celebrity – you know, people know have been on TV. It’s really about everyday people having a voice. And I don’t want it to be dwarfed by celebrity.”
Uhm…
“Kutcher told Larry King that initially, Twitter was a tool to feed his ego until he realized that he could use the service to make a difference.
“At the end of the day, we all have ego, we all have some level of ego,” he said. “But if we can use our ego to actually create good charitable things in the world in some way, and use our ego – originally, I defined Twitter as an ego stream when I first saw it. But then what I realized is if we can transform that into something that’s positive that can actually effectively change the world, that can be a really valuable tool.” ”
What the fuck is he talking about?
If I ever join Twitter—yes, it could happen—I’m gonna make all my tweets either palindromes or lipograms. That’s the only way it’s gonna work for me.
That will be fun. Use Twitter for your own amusement. Fight the Evil.
Oh, lay off Kutcher. He was just conducting one of his social experiments.
I assume the good, charitable thing about Twitter is that it seems to be keeping Ashton Kutcher off movie sets.
The other fun rallying cry against twitter came on Thursday night when a bunch of comedians went to a midnight screening of Crank: High Voltage and told people they were going to “tweet” their thoughts.
This greatly angered 3 “film fans” who happen to run websites–and they responded via Twitter to show their anger.
Then the kids at Slashfilm wrote a big missive (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/17/is-it-okay-to-twitter-during-movie-a-movie-human-giant-comedians-challenge-the-system/) decrying twitter, twittering while at the movies and why twitter is evil. It was capped off by a note to follow them on Twitter, that’s thrown at the end of each article.
What does it all mean?
Honestly, I think most people admit “twitter” sounds like a dirty word and they enjoy writing it every chance they get. And it’s now a part of how I communicate with other people across the glorious internet. Besides, hasn’t D’Angelo shown us that using it for Blast Reviews is basically one of the only major uses Twitter aside from making Kutcher a relevant news item?
Yeah, but if Kutcher were really cool, he’d be here:
http://twitter.com/lost_skeleton
Forget Kutcher. It’s all about Tweets on the Cinematographer.
http://twitter.com/robertbresson
They gas dogs at shelters? I figured they’d save gassing for the uncircumcised ones.
Bad joke, but surely they simply do lethal injections and don’t put poor puppies in a gas chamber? Am I reading into that poorly written analogy too much?
The analogy may be poor, but the overall sentiment is heartwarming.
Don’t you mean heartworming?