Over at SportsByBrooks, Brooks has written up a fantastic article regarding the evolution of ESPN and how it has driven to the Twitter muzzling over at Bristol.
BIg’s in radio, so he can probably speak to the battle between programming and sales. Fucking sales guys. Scum of the earth.
I’m Twittering our page so hard, I’m gonna make the “fail whale” scream in pain.
You know, because we post so god damn much as it is…Big up and signed us up for the Twitter.
Nevermind my ranting about it. He joined so we could follow the Shaq and Simmons trains of thoughts…rather be on the forefront of comedy than wait for Daulerio to find it and post about it like usual.
Anyway, we probably won’t post much, probably out of principle more than anything. However, if we get enough followers, you might get such masterful “tweets” from me like “i’m blogging while shitting. hooray for watermelon!” or “next time I see Bear, I’m going to hit him in the mouth”.
Twittering. Tweeting. Twatting. Whatever the hell it’s called when someone puts something on the Twitter.
I’m sorry, I just don’t get it. Exactly what is appealing about reading small snippets about what someone is doing? Are we that ADD of a nation drenched in Idiocracy now?
I had the following discussion with a friend recently, and I’ll do my best to reproduce this verbatim.
Friend: “Dude, you need to get on Twitter.”
Me: “Why”
Friend: “It’s the next big thing. Everyone’s doing it. Facebook is so yesterday.”
Me: “I just got on Facebook a few months ago and it’s already obsolete?”
Friend:“Yeah, man, it’s all about Twitter. It’s bad ass.”
Me: “Why?”
Friend: “It just is, dude! You can put what you’re doing and people can follow you.”
Me: “Why not just text what you’re doing to people who would actually care?”
Friend: “You don’t get it. Trust me, dude, Twitter’s bad ass.”
Me: “I hate you.”
What is Twitter, exactly? As far as I can tell, it’s a place where you can put a sentence or two about what you’re doing. People can “follow” you and you can “follow” people.
That’s it. Nothing more. Nothing less.
How is that appealing? How is that a social revolution? Trust me, I don’t have anything that I do or think that is remotely interesting. Only 2 of you read this, and one of which is Big!
Admittedly, I’m a little slow on the popular technologies. I just got on the Facebook, recently bought my first digital camera and still do not own an iPod. But, I’m just applying simple logic here and I can’t figure it out.
Somebody help me understand the benefit and draw of Twitter because I’m beyond lost.
