A Nation of Celebrity Twit(terer)s
by Eric Golub
Not since the creation of the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos has something so useless entered American culture with such fanfare. Americans are all atwitter about Twitter. It was bad enough when people began chatting with total strangers online about their private lives. Then the blogosphere exploded and we all moved one step closer to becoming the nation of Narcissista. Then MySpace and Facebook came along, and everybody felt the need to make every aspect of their lives public.
Look, I admit to being a blogger, and one of the better ones. Yet my blog actually covers issues and events. The following paragraph is what my blog is not about:
I had a piece of toast today. It was yummy. I could not decide between butter and margarine, they both taste good. My sister is such a bizzatch. Social studies class sucks. I am so going to buy that new outfit at Benetton.
If anybody cares what teenage girls have to say, I have not met them. Giving them computers and I-Pods and I-Phones and I-everything else has turned them into the people of I, I, I, I, I. Yet, if MySpace is the beginning of the end of civilization, then Twitter is bringing the Apocalypse.
The way Twitter works is that people write short posts of no more than 140 words. A post is called a “tweet.” People tweet on Twitter. Shorter posts were designed for people to post but not convey their life story. You’re supposed to shut up and get to the point. Instead, people just engaged in round the clock, multiple posts.
8am: “I had a piece of toast. It was yummy. I could not decide between butter or margarine.”
8:02am: “My sister is such a bizzatch.”
8:05am: “Social studies class is too hard.”
8:07am: “I can’t wait to buy that new outfit at Benetton.”
Yet as awful as this mental masturbation is, it is harmless by itself. It truly becomes toxic when mixed with another kind of twit…the Hollywood Celebrity.
The California Supreme Court recently upheld the will of the people by affirming the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. The Hollywood twits twittered away. Alyssa Milano, the kid from “Who’s the Boss,” only gets attention because she’s young and hot asked, “How is it possible? Supreme Court Upheld Proposition 8?”
How is it possible? I could teach her how a bill becomes a law, and what voter initiatives are, but her head may explode. I could explain that appeals courts are supposed to follow the law, not make law.
Ellen DeGeneres said, “H8 Sucks!!!”
I despise acronyms, capital letters, and exclamation points in commentary. Ellen did all three. I should have yelled out, “H8…B3…O75…Bingo!!!!!!”
Is that the best Ellen can do? H8 Sucks? Who could possibly disagree with that? Hey Ellen, I dislike sanctimonious talk show hosts, but at least you’re eloquent at times. This is not one of those times.
Amber Benson, said, “The Supreme Court blows.” Miss Nicky Hilton found this whole thing, “disgusting,” which is ironic coming from anyone in the Hilton family. One person wrote, “I blame Miss California.”
It is times like this that I support reinstating a literacy test for voters, especially people in Hollywood or under 25 years of age.
The final straw came when I tried doing what had always been a normal activity, watching football. Five of us have been friends for 20 years, but I was totally unprepared for the biggest abuse of technology since fake tanning salons. Two of the guys checked each other’s Twitter page to see what the other one was doing. Both pages confirmed that both of them were currently watching the game with each other.
Finally I had had enough. “You are watching football with him. He is watching football with you. I am in the room with both of you. I don’t need to go to a computer to know this. We have been doing this 20 years. This is insanity.”
One of them asked, “Yeah, but if I don’t have my Twitter Page, how will I know the score of the game?”
I wanted to shoot them, but perhaps modern science can study them better if they live.
The solution to Twitter is the same as the solution to all Hollywood celebrities. Follow the example of Nancy Reagan, and “Just say no.” Even if somebody offers to spray your computer with non-Oxynol 9 to prevent computer viruses, decline to screw around with this. Abstinence remains the only safe policy.
No more Hollywood Twit(terer)s.
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
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I'm linking this to my twitter page.
*MissQuinn*
(@ComrieQuinn on Twitter)
Eric, I can't say that I agree more with you. I am an English major and firmly believe that twitter and texting are killing the English language. I try to avoid texting if I can, though when I do I always punctuate — I am probably the only human being alive who does, drives my wife crazy sometimes… but I digress. The downfall of civilization is upon us.
Didn't we have this whole discussion when blogs first came out? I think some people just don't like anything new.
Coming from the person who is still on CDs, I will probably start tweeting in 2020, or maybe 2030.
2015 at the earliest.
Texting and Twitter aren't killing the English language. Lazy, postmodern English teachers who don't properly teach spelling and grammar are what's killing the English language.
OMG! ur post is the roxxor! Golub rulez! LOL!
I honestly never thought we'd come up with a more annoying word than 'blog'. But then the gods gave us 'tweet'.
My folks asked me one night at dinner, "What's Twitter?" And since I wasn't 100% sure at the time and I wanted to give them the facts, I pulled up the online animated demo on Twitter's website.
I kid you not. The narration goes something like this (paraphrasing from memory): "When you're online, you view websites, you check your e-mail, you read blogs. Well Twitter allows you to tell people what you're doing IN BETWEEN all that!"
Needless to say, my dad and I looked at each other and asked, "Who gives a s—?"
I can see how Twitter could be useful for companies and customer service. The Consumerist blog has many success stories where someone, say for example, had an error on a credit card bill promptly corrected after exchanging info with the card company's Twitter rep.
The value of Twitter is not frivolous personal postings. That's just noise (albeit annoying, I realize). The value of Twitter is the news updates and subject matter links that "influencers" and other thoughtful people are posting. These items are quickly indexed and searchable on Twitter, allowing near real-time searches by topic. By comparison, Google currently only indexes the web every 10 days, I believe. So if you want to search today's web (not last week's web), Twitter is a helpful too. The problem with Twitter is, the tool needs to be made easier to use. Twitter in its current incarnation may or may not last, but the underlying phenomenon has promise.
We have stopped living in the present in the place we are in and starting living our lives with people far away. That includes this blog. In one way it expands who we know and what we can learn, but in another we miss what is right in front of us. For all of our ways we have to communicate these days, we have forgotten how to share a moment with the person right in front us.
The move to a nonsense society is complete. The sheep will easily be herded; just send them a Twitter message.
The twitter twits are drooling over stupidity all the time. Anticerebal celebrities are just another subspecies of Twitter twits with larger mouths and smaller brains. I get that so I don't frequent Twitter or it's offspring. I also blog regularily and you won't find my personal life in my blog posts. For me, it is an expression of my opinion in a meaningful way on issues that need to be clarified. But then I blog for ME and no one else. Want to see? Visit http://spinnada.blogspot.com/ and check it out.
Ashton Kutcher said it's the best thing since the Gutenberg Press.
He has 2 million people following him and it makes a fair amount of sense to connect him with his "fans" (?). But already my friends who text a dozen people in day but lack the strength to actually talk to them on the phone drives me crazy and this is just more noise.
What's next? Twittering in between twitter posts? No one has enough time in the day to care so much about what that many people are donig.
There's a great new site just tailor made for this phenomenon. Tweeting Too Hard. Funny stuff though I don't know if they have celebrity tweets yet. We should start submitting them…
Good to know there is another one out there. I have three daughters with whom I text (I had to use that whom!), and it drives them crazy that I capitalize, punctuate and spell properly. We spend so much time communicating and have so little to say.
This is a byproduct of our retarded society and Russian media summed it up nicely with this recent article……
"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more than happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another.
cont……
You blog for you and "no one else" but invite us to come and see? What the? Do you see how silly that is?
…….The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe."
I totally agree! Not sure why people are compelled to slam something they aren't into – I don't Twitter but could care less if people do and don't feel the need to condemn them their pleasure.
I was told (by my quite stuffy UCLA English Prof) that the reason English is such a wonderful language is that it grows and changes; that common usage dictates what our language becomes. I was in horror. "You mean if the majority of people started saying 'ain't' then that would be O.K.?" To which he responded a resounding "YES"! I so liked to be the language and grammar police but this stopped me in my tracks and I have since seen the beauty of this. Bring on the OMG's and LOL's!!
You're nuts dude.
Reminds me of my far left friends who sent me emails all the time about how Bush was going to declare Marshall law etc etc….
Of course, maybe you're joking and I'm not seeing the humor!
You're nuts dude.
Reminds me of my far left friends who sent me emails all the time about how Bush was going to declare Marshall law etc etc….
Of course, maybe you're joking and I'm not seeing the humor!
Dear stupid, that was from Russian media as I stated in the first line. Please, I've told you many times to stick to what you know, finger-painting and navel gazing.
Possibly. But I also thought people would get tired of having their cell phones around and not still feel the need to constantly talk to friends about mundane details. Yet I'm surrounded by such people every … single … day.
In reality people are endlessly fascinated with themselves, and if you give them a venue in which to talk about their favorite subject it will only go out of fashion the minute an easier venue comes along. Hence, MySpace leads to Facebook leads to Twitter … and beyond.
Hero, I punctuate too in my texts as well. A full keyboard really helps out with that, though.
*MissQuinn*
Thank you, HeroOfTime! I was an English major in college, too. It just breaks my heart to see people mangle the English language these days. How am I supposed to respect (or even understand) an opinion that is so poorly expressed?
I don't tweet, but I think slamming any form of written communication via the format of another looked-down upon written communication rather silly. Don't like Twitter? Don't use it. Pretty simply, really. I remember when texting started to overtake actually talking on one's phone in public and anytime anyone near me would gripe about it, I would ask, "Do you miss the days of people talking endlessly on their cell phones in restaurants, bars, coffee shops, airport lounges, etc?" I follow no one on Twitter, but if I was wanting to get a taste of it, I don't think sub-25 girls would be at the top of my list. Seriously, give up the haterade.
I do not now, nor have I ever, had a MySpace page. I have never had a Facebook account. I have never "tweeted", nor do I intend to do so.
I am many things, but a voyeuristic narcissist is not one of them.
I nos wat yu meen.
I'm developing a program called Jitter. It's kind of like Twitter for the ADHD set. In between the times you're Twittering, it spits out random thoughts for you. It also automatically reads those thoughts on behalf of other Jitter users, so that your friends don't actually need to read what "you" wrote. It saves everyone time.
Oh, and every once in a while, it confesses to a crime on your behalf and e-mails that confession to law enforcement. That's in the small print.
Ah. A victim of public education, no doubt.
What's texting? Do I use MS word? I need my spell check, can't use wordpad.
Gilty.
Amen! "Blog," sounds as if it was something that didn't digest properly and is making a speedy exit from one's insides.
I regard twitter, facebook, digg and their ilk much like a flaming car wreck. Horrible, but I can't look away.
I have accounts on all of them (and never use them). Heck, I even have a blog but I'm too lazy to post to it half the time. I'm working on a posting now, but it's about something I'm somewhat upset about and right now it's an incoherent rant. Sigh.
Like anyone cares what I blog about. I'm still trying to understand the whole point of blogs (hasn't stopped me from doing it).
I need help.
Huh. I'm writing a similar program for people who simply like to complain endlessly, subjecting others to their often hateful moanings all the while never taking responsibility for anything in their lives.
It's called Bitter.
I think it will be a big hit with liberals and certain ex-girlfriends.
A@@ton Koocher? You mean the biggest no-talent douche-bag on the planet? The boy is sickening.
Actually, this is one of my pet peeves. The purpose of language is communication. Language is a type of code by which we communicate our thoughts and ideas to each other. Each word is a symbol that represents an idea. If both people involved don't agree on the meanings being represented by the symbols, communication breaks down.
It's like if I was using Morse code, and I just decided for no reason that I was going to use "…" to mean "W" instead of "S". My messages would become difficult to understand. If we keep shifting the meanings of words around, communication becomes more and more difficult, and the whole purpose of language breaks down.
Linguistic change is inevitable, of course, But the goal of linguists, English scholars, teachers, etc., should be to resist the change as long as possible, to keep the lines of communication open for as long as possible.
Hilarious article and very true.
The ignorance factor out there is extremely high, and before a kid is allowed to post on the net, participate in Facebook or be a twitterer; he or she should be required to read the majority of the Classics, have taken two semesters of American History, and at the very least spend 4 hours a week out of doors.
For me it is all about the parental units and how they are monitoring the kiddies. Just say no would most definitely be applicable. It is sort of like the whole theory behind giving a kid an automobile just because they turned sixteen, and took a lame drivers test. Where is it written all kids should have a car by age 16? Where is it written they should be allowed to twitter? The little crumb crunchers need more in the noggins these days, and not so much techno garbage. Maybe then we could communicate without so many "Uhs", "Uhmm" or "like" in their vocabularies.
The people who organize the Tea Party protests, for one. From what I understand, Twitter has been very helpful in organizing these things.
"he or she should be required to read the majority of the Classics, have taken two semesters of American History, and at the very least spend 4 hours a week out of doors."
Well, it looks like Obama is out then.
My manager signed me up for Facebook, but I couldn't see the use of it – as in, "How will this make me money?" – so I signed in once, and never went back. Twitter tweets are, what, less than 150 characters? Seriously, what kind of significant information can you convey? OMG! WTF?! LOL!!1!1!1! BRB! ;^)
I have a MySpace Music page and a a Blogger weblog, and really, that's enough, thank you very much. Those things actually land me gigs and get me students.
Yay, punctuation!
I won't tweet until I know all the bugs have been worked out….
Pass.
Seems to me that twitter is just a marketing tool.
"Fans" want to feel like they actually 'know' Kutcher so they tweet him… and are thrilled IF he tweets him back. (wow… gotta post that on my blog!) Likewise for all celebrities.
Bloggers, columnists, and authors all use it for self promotion.
Difference is that it was bullsh-t about Bush.
Obama's already in the process of nationalizing the auto industry and the banks before moving to take over healthcare with money he doesn't have.
Ha ha ha! Good ones. I think Bitter will be all the rave on college campuses, even in conservative states like mine. Andrew, Jitter has too much fine print, are you sure that congress didn't come up with that idea?
I have a full keyboard as well. It makes things feel more fluid, though I am about to the point that I would love nothing more than to throw the stupid phone out the window. That way people will stop bugging me about dumb things via text message. I only tolerate it at the moment because my wife likes to make sure that I am alright.
Hate to defend a hollywood type, but Ms. Milano has a lot of good tweets about Baseball and other sports.
Twitter has a lot to offer, far much more than the banalities of life. I put off joining Twitter for about a year because I didn't see the value in it. And, if all you do with it is follow a few celebrities, you're not seeing even the tip of the iceberg.
Twitter is a great place to meet people and, more importantly, can be a great place to meet like-minded individuals. It is amazing how much information can be squeezed into 140 characters. (And, if it doesn't fit in a single tweet, you can spread it across multiple tweets.)
I know of people that generate business from Twitter. One person I know essentially has full-time freelance work due to contacts made on Twitter.
You can also obtain real-time results from Twitter. Encounter a problem with something? Give up trying to find an answer through Google? Ask on Twitter! Normally, I can get a number of replies within minutes, and that sure beats searching through page after page of junk and spammy websites that show up in Google's search results!
How about news? There have been several times that I have heard about news events before they appear on the TV news or any of the news websites, including Drudge. People will be tweeting about an event, and you'll learn what's going on before the old or new media outlets have had a chance to broadcast or publish it.
Of course, you do have to take the good with the bad. Word of Patrick Swayze's presumed death spread fairly quickly on Twitter, but word that the story was false spread just as quickly. So, while incorrect information can spread fast, corrected data can be distributed just as rapidly.
Spam on Twitter is also a growing problem. They used to take care of it pretty quickly, but now the lag time seems rather long. Twitter's growth has made it attractive to spammers. Fortunately, in many cases, you can resolve the problem by blocking troublesome users.
The bottom line is that Twitter is a communication tool. The value is in how we utilize that tool.
Okay okay…Ive had enough of the moaning and groaning. Seriously…if all youve ever looked at is the teenage population on Twitter/Facebook/MySpace (Im not terribly fond of MySpace, but that's largely over design issues rather than content…who came up with that format?! OUCH, my eyes!!!!)…then Id be more worried about hanging out with YOU people than the folk I chat with on Twitter.
Yes, I said it. I Twitter. (continuing in next post)
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Look…I have a website I worked very hard on. I want people to visit. But up until I got onto twitter, the only people who knew about the website were a small group of people. Nothing wrong with those people, but it was essentially an echo chamber. Im human. Im not immune to enjoying the sound of my own warble every now and then, but I repeat: I have a website I'd like to promote. I want people to know about it. And Twitter has given me the PERFECT opportunity to not only get the word out, but actually chat with people out there. Ive found some very valuable networking mechanisms because of things people share on Twitter. I chat with some funny people. There is even a funny little game that recently got started up on Twitter…Its all waht you put into to Twitter, its all what youre looking for. I was looking for a way to network and get people interested in something I created. If you look beyond the teenybopper msgs you migth actually find a really neat community of people. But like reading comments on blogs, it takes time and effort
There are some months where I get more traffic to my blog from Twitter than I get from Google. Google can be too finicky, with pages seemingly rated arbitrarily by what Brin & Page and their mysterious "algorithm" comes up with. Too often I see junk outranking solid content. So, Twitter can fill in (or overtake) the void in traffic caused by Google's finicky nature.
That's also why I hope Google never buys Twitter. It's about time Google gets some competition!
More than that – while I enjoy the hell out of reading blogs, I have tried writing one myself and QUICKLY discovered how frikkin TIME CONSUMING it is…not just on a technological level (always looking for that better template, that faster RSS, that more stable CSS or whatever the hell it is) but on a social level too. I found out I do NOT have the aptitude for always being ON the moment AT the moment that EVERYONE is ready to receive it. I found myself regurgitating a lot of what was already out there…and no traffic…and finding traffic was even MORE frustrating. How can I compete with the journalists out there who are more savvy than I at getting information out? And I cant tell you how just writing up a thoughtful post ate up most of my day…that after spending some time getting familiar with the news and subjects out there. IT ATE ME UP. So I quit. Now I do more creative writing and Twitter satisfies my need to be in touch in an instant without feeling obligated to wax philosophical at every turn.
Yes!! That's it exactly! My traffic has improved greatly since I started twittering…I dont have a large following, but I know Ive managed to get people interested…and Ive come across some really neat people in the process.
And I hope Google never comes near it either. Google is fine the way it is…I use it frequently (although I really try to find other search engines to use – I like to boycott Google when they let their prejudice show)
I do giveaways on my blog so I tweet those… But I haven't found Twitter to be that helpful. Maybe I'm not utilizing it correctly…
I’m not against Twitter – and it can be a great social networking tool. Remember the Tea Parties.
Still, you make some excellent points. Many narcissistic personalities are addicted to it. Most of the twitter statements are crap. Example: Ellen's (again).
Oh my gosh! I'd hate to read any petitions coming from your office. I have allergies and I must confess: I had to wipe down my monitor!
As in "you have a blogged colon." Or "you arteries are blogged with too much cholesterol."
Well said Bev. We're becoming technologically advanced and socially retarded. And I have to pose this question: on line, while blogging, do we really know those with which we communicate? There are definitely some who have on line personas with which I would enjoy meeting for a cup of coffee or a nice Guiness. But those are on-line personas. Genuine friendship has to be sought in the personal, face to face contact with those with whom we come in contact. On line, you never know who you are going to get.
"To be or not to be. That is the question"
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
You can say a lot with short sentences.
I saw the funniest thing a few months back, someone had made a video, kinda like the Onion, making fun of Twitter, where you only used 26 characters. I wish I could remember the name of it, I'd post it, it was hilarious. I joined Twitter just to see what it was all about, and yes, it is narcissism in the extreme. I do laugh at the total inanities people post. The only good part I can see is that news is disseminated through there very quickly. Hot off the wire, as it were. Otherwise, nyah. I actually do hate it less than I do Facebook and MySpace, though.
I'm not sure this is really true. Sure, there are languages that enjoy a certain amount of protection (French) or isolation (think tribal), but almost all languages are affected by common usage. The other poster is correct: the permissiveness of our culture + bad teaching is yielding the rapid decay of English. (Rapid as languages go). Your professor was overstating the obvious … or enjoying the decay of English. (I teach a graduate-level class in language).
Oh dear! *yawn*
This would be, what—the 3,672nd Apocalypse now? All brought about by something new that those entrenched in the dominant medium didn't 'get'.
Again, I say: *yawn*
Twitter is like being in a small room with 100 people, all talking at once, and no one really listening. It's just abbreviated blogging. And another distraction.
I have pledged never to twitter, tweet or twemble at danger. Oh wait! What was that I just did?
Twitter is this year's Pet Rock.
Drie, I think it depends on the site. If you're looking for love, it is probably the wrong way to go mostly. But on the positive side, it gives people who otherwise would not have an outlet, a chance to interact. My mother plays bridge online with people all over the world, many of them people in remote places or unable to leave home for various reasons. Their group started gets together once or twice a year for a bridge tournments and have a blast.
For me it's not so much sites like this, but the tweeting and texting while sitting at the social function that I just don't understand. These people are not in the moment and missing what's in front of them.
I'm thinking of getting one of those newfangled CB radios I keep hearing about. Anybody got any suggestions?
King, I disagree. (personally, I've never understood the joy of Twitter). When blogs first came out, it was considered a case of "you'll only be conversing with like minded people"…whereas it's adapted (for the most part) to be a New Media outlet.
How can you get enough information out in 150 to get out a meaningful statement (Correctly typed at that…), when you've got 30 tons of crap out there in between semi-interesting messages? How does that adapt? Unless I'm just missing potential somewhere (other than those silly viral marketing campaigns?)
I'd recommend one of those models that fits right under your 8-track.
There was a literacy test for voters? Why the hell aren't we brining that back? Put me down for that. Oh, and property owners only, too. THAT one I knew about. LOL
LOL!
One more thing: I think I wrote this in another comment section. Technology has officially passed me by. I was wondering where in my life it would happen. Right smack dab in the middle of Facebook and Twitter. I long for the days of my Mac Classic.
[...] Mr. Golub notes, yes, blogs are part of the me thing as well and yes, I do have one. And occasionally I will post a [...]
I suffered through myspace. I like facebook. I signed up for twitter and haven't been back.
facebook is great for nonconfrontational introductions of the Founders to my left-leaning friends. A good TJefferson or Reagan quote about the judiciary,,,
and I found good friends I had lost in transit!
do y'all see B.C. comics strip – they've been twittering – very funny!
I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Andrew Breitbart as a result of my checking out his Twitter the day after I signed up. If that's the only thing that ever comes from my Twittering, that's good enough for me! Twitter On, Conservatives! Connect and expand and inform. Nothing wrong with how it's done!
Dear Eric: if you are going to quote me on your blog, please quote me correctly. Thank you, Amber Benson
Here is my twitter comment in its entirety: (Note there is no mention of the supreme court "blowing".)
"C'mon, California, I really thought we were the kind of State that supported equality for all." 1:03 PM May 26th from twitter
Wow, misquoted Amber Benson. And not everyone uses text chat on Twitter. Get your fact's straight, Eric.
Um yeah, this blog entry is as useless as you think celebrity twitterers are.
ummm you quoted the wrong celebs buddy.
Yea, you pretty much misquoted everyone. Grats. I know formatting comes tough to people who rip the latest American trends, but perhaps you should recheck the formatting of the page you ripped all the quotes from. You should probably go back and fix your article, because its full of misinformation. You should also probably give a link to whichever website you got your quotes from, because you obviously didn't do the research yourself. Let me help you…
How is it possible? Supreme court upheld prop 8. -Clementine Ford
H8 SUCKS!!! Equality please. -Aly Denisof
Supreme Court blows…… -Angela Robinson
Wow. Hate young women much? "If anybody cares what teenage girls have to say, I have not met them." "Alyssa Milano, the kid from “Who’s the Boss,” only gets attention because she’s young and hot asked, “How is it possible? Supreme Court Upheld Proposition 8?”
Yeah, the quotes of each celebrity is above their Tweetnames, not below. Angela Robinson made the quote about California blowing, and being married. Amber is not married.
And the ultimate solution–Do Not Follow Who You Don't Want To Read. What harm are celeb Tweeters, or any Tweeters for that matter, doing to you fine folk?
Don't Tread On Me, maaaan.
Worst article EVER. All quotes are wrong, do proper research before you try to quote crap.
If you are going to take the time to complain about something, at least take the time to research correctly. Amber is not the one that said the Supreme Court of California blows. Ellen is not the one that said H8 sucks. And Nicky is not the one that said she found the whole thing disgusting. Read it again.
And Facebook, Myspace, and even Twitter have been very helpful in keeping me in contact with friends and family that no longer live near me. It gives you time to catch up with everyone very quickly, if you're not too busy spending all of your time complaining about what everybody else is doing.
Get a life.
As the last few comments have mentioned, all the quotes were incorrectly attributed from here:
http://www.afterellen.com/people/2009/5/celebs-tw...
To the author: As a 'writer', one would hope that you know how to proofread and verify source content before you publish. By not doing these things, one can only conclude that you are as sloppy as the tweeters against whom you are raging. Perhaps you would have done better with a 140 character limit and a bit.ly link to your source.
As the last few comments have mentioned, all the quotes were incorrectly attributed from here:
http://www.afterellen.com/people/2009/5/celebs-tw...
To the author: As a 'writer', one would hope that you know how to proofread and verify source content before you publish. By not doing these things, one can only conclude that you are as sloppy as the tweeters against whom you are raging. Perhaps you would have done better with a 140 character limit and a bit.ly link to your source.
Wow, look at all the angry liberals that showed up out of nowhere. You must have really hurt their feelings, heh. Maybe they'll cry.
It's people like you and this article that give conservatives a bad name. I'd expect shoddy reporting like this out of The New York Times or the Washington Post, not from a conservative blogger who claims to be "one of the best". I am outraged because I am a conservative, not because I am a liberal. You on the other hand have no recourse other than ad hoc arguments, which is just as bad.
I highly doubt twitter is going to truly be our downfall. Maybe we should concentrate less on something so unimportant and focus more on something that truly matters. If you don't like it, then don't use it. And as for not liking H8, you have to realize tht it's kind of a slogan thing.
And as for the english major person…I am an english major and love twitter. I wouldn't be where I am now without twitter. It got me a pretty cool job writing before I'm even done with college.
All ya'll need to just grow up and realize things will always be changing. You either need to go with the flow or stay out of the way.
Hey pot, it's the kettle, um..you're black.
Also, I thinkit's right wing idiots who are causing the problem in America. Clearly, you and your reader base of borderline Nazi's fall in that category. Why don't you move away if you don't like it here anymore. We put up with 8 years of Adolf … I mean W. so suck it up and deal with it. Isn't that your guys motto.
Wow, you misattributed every single quote you posted. I guess if there was a literacy test for voters, you'd fail it.
Yeah, and from now on, I plan to be NIGGARDLY in my use of the language!
When we fail to properly understand the native language, dastardly things happen…..
*shrug*
I have a twitter account, though all I've really used it for is a way to send messages that I'd survived Hurricane Ike… and a jury duty summons.
"Look, I admit to being a blogger, and one of the better ones." – Was this statement intended to be ironic?
Know I sound freakshow…but among The Giants of social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linked-In)…well, wouldn't it be a hacker's Holy Grail to hack one of their databases. And that's why I stay away. One World nuances. Scares the crap outta me. I think I'll run into my Fallout Shelter and take inventory of my dehydrated food stores again… Buh-bye
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