It has come to my attention that the monstrosity that is Twitter is slowly taking over the Internet. Well, it might be happening a lot faster than I care to admit.
Honestly, though - if it wasn't for Twitter, how would we know exactly what our favorite celebrities are thinking at any given moment? And how would we know what the president said about Kanye West off the record while he was being interviewed?
(The fact that a journalist thought it was okay to tweet about that is absolutely beyond me. What happened to ethics and standards?)
But I digress... sort of. The news media has caught the Twitter bug and it doesn't seem like they're going to stop running with it any time soon. In an era of video clips not put into context and messages compressed into 140 characters, I wonder if we're going to cut language and ideas down to the point of Orwellian thinkspeak.
Oh and lo and behold, now you can now use the @ sign followed by someone's name on Facebook to link to their account. JUST LIKE ON TWITTER OMG THAT IS SO AMAZING. Stop trying to infiltrate my life, Twitter.
I'm on to you.
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Facebook is a copycat \o/ And MySpace copies Facebook as well. So it'll only be a matter of months or years (because MySpace is slower than Facebook) before MySpace has @replies.
I like Twitter though D: And I use it, a lot. However, I don't follow that many celebrities, because, well, they're usually boring. And then there are celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, who are just annoyingly self-righteous.
On the case of Obama's comment being leaked. No ethics there for sure. But it's nice to see that presidents can be fun too.
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