Comments on: Twitter Is A Blight On The Planet https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:55:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: backspace https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1558 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:55:22 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1558 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians

f*ckin ay. twitter has some value after all.

]]> By: jimmyd https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1436 Sat, 23 May 2009 02:40:40 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1436 @DirtyBob,

Thanks! I think.

]]> By: MikeSouth https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1434 Fri, 22 May 2009 16:52:14 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1434 OK you have a point it like blaming guns for the way criminals use them….sort of.

But what has happened to Kayden is a crime

Im just sayin….

]]> By: jimmyd https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1433 Fri, 22 May 2009 16:18:34 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1433 Blasting Twitter for the spam or innocuous, self-important, drivel many of its users Tweet is like shooting the messenger. I’m just saying.

]]> By: MikeSouth https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1431 Fri, 22 May 2009 04:02:45 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1431 Oh of course I get it but for every JimmyD who uses twitter for business theres 1000 people who use it to spam herbal viagra or whatever and 10,000 people who use it to say “Look at me Im an attention whore” without even having to put any effort into it.

how many writing gigs do you suppose Ms Kross (whom I adore like family) has gotten from her twits?

and therein lies my point.

]]> By: gonzo https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1428 Thu, 21 May 2009 09:22:06 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1428 Hate to say it Mike but JimmyD is on to something here.
I explain it to you on Friday.

]]> By: jimmyd https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1427 Thu, 21 May 2009 02:58:52 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1427 Mike–

Apparently, you don’t really “get” Twitter and neither does Ms. Kross.

Yeah, it may have started out as an ego-boosting, self-importance driven, social media site where users post the oh-so fascinating stuff they’re currently doing in 140 words or less. You know, stuff like, “Just dropped a sewer bass and realized I’m outa toilet paper.” (Thought you’d like a fish-related example, Mikey.) But for many, Twitter has become a business media tool, an information media tool, a learning media tool, and more.

I mostly follow photographers and photography related Twitterers. I also follow Twitter users like Smithsonian and others that might provide great links to stuff I’m personally interested in seeing. What most of the Twits I follow (or those who follow me) often do is post links to sites and articles and so much more that I’m very interested in having a look at. It’s also been a great business networking tool. I’m in contact with people all over the world who have like interests as me (mostly photography) and, believe it or not, I’ve scored a couple of shooting gigs–commercial shooting gigs–as a result of my Twitter experience. Something, I might add, that never happened via my MySpace page… which I deleted a few months back. (MS is truly a waste of time and cyberspace… unless you’re looking to get laid, I guess.) Twitter, i.e., my twittering, has also increased the traffic to my blog, quite significantly!

So, before you go off all faux-smart hillbilly on everyone–sometime I think you’re to hillbillies what Sasha Grey tries to be to porn stars–maybe you should take a closer look at this currently popular thing called Twitter.

]]> By: MikeSouth https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1426 Wed, 20 May 2009 18:56:15 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1426 I’m not so sure look at humorists like Lewis Grizzard ( a personal fav of mine) and P J O’Roarke and Dave Barry even Jenny McCarthy

They write about mundane things that happen in daily life largely, but they have the ability to use words to make it funny and interesting and usually poignant, with the exception of McCarthy they always kept their clothing on…Thank God

]]> By: goodwill https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1425 Wed, 20 May 2009 18:31:17 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1425 In other words: When one writes not entirely for the sincere expression of the subject, but also for the purpose of creating a more psychologically-captivating image than mere appearance could create, the self-deception that it’s only the former, and not at all the latter, withers away.

If she didn’t take her clothes off, reading about Bob Evan’s would be as palatable to the average person as reading a random undergrad’s creative writing assignments. Amusing, likely – but altogether, undeniably irrelevant and avoidable. Not quite the case when the reader falls for the never explicit, always insinuated, suggestion that by reading and “understanding,” he is increasing his chances with the author.

]]> By: MikeSouth https://mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1424 Wed, 20 May 2009 15:50:31 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/twitter-is-a-blight-on-the-planet-2725/#comment-1424 Another one lost to the literary equivalent of McDonalds.

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