Sunday, 6 May 2012

twitterati assessment


Twitter is a many-to-many aggregated newsfeed
  • if you add up all time and intellectual effort expended on tweeting, and writing about tweeting … it’s probably bigger than the Greek economy
  • so it all goes faster and faster with less and less thought
  • social media does not feed and house us
  • it’s the hugest solution looking for a problem to solve
  • meanwhile we continue to use it because we can, because most of are driven to express ourselves, and because we need to be found/seen
  • and it has a car-crash fascination despite our best intentions, and very occasionally something interesting
  • aaaagh