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February 1st, 2008 by Chantelle Oliver in Web 2.0 Museum![[Post to Twitter]](http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/tweet-this-small.png)
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Toronto—Twitter is killing me. It went down late last night during the US Republican Candidate blather-festival. Steve Jobs’ Macworld killed it too.
I was so desperate to twoosh Britney’s 1 a.m. trip to UCLA’s Medical Center (my ultra-new style 140 character celebrity reporting). But I was thwarted.
Despite all that I can still smell it. Not spring, but the Twitter-fied air. Facebook and Myspace are dinosaurs. Sweet little twitter is scales-to-feather evolved.
And who doesn’t want to fly? Even bloggers writing about how to murder her end up with odes to her grace and simplicity.
My fancy for celeb-semantic tweets don’t begin to sum up all the Twitter possibilities. Stalking, shopping, finding a job, asking unanswerable questions and even “serious political discourse.” (Yawn.)
If you aren’t part of the Twitter Village you clearly are lonely and unfree. Or, if you feel too old, then realize Twitter as an opportunity to creep out the under-twenty: “It would be like a forty-year-old attending the school formal,” Rudman says. “It just doesn’t work.”
Be free. Irritate the young. Here’s a good place to start.
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Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2008 at 11:14 am. Follow comments through the RSS 2.0 feed. Comment or trackback.
February 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
do you change the way you think in order to twoosh? It seems like you couldn’t just truncate your thoughts or hope to fit them in - and editing it would be cheating and not a twoosh. It seems like this is a (fun and somewhat natural) example of adapting your behaviour to help the machine capture your thoughts.
I love the idea of life in bits of 140 characters or less - i was just wondering (because of your Britney twoosh comment) if you have found your thoughts becoming increasingly amenable to twitter’s 140 characters?
February 12th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
My thoughts usually aren’t amenable to anything but 140 characters is preferable for any audience that is for sure.