Comments on: The Chairman Tweets

By: lex

lex — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:28:41 +0000

I “follow” some opinion makers in politics and tech, as well as some other folks whose blogs I’d like to read more often but often can’t make time for. If someone puts up a “I’m having coffee and a bagel” post, well: It doesn’t take much time to learn that.

There’s a kind of enforced immediacy to it – 140 characters, even with url shortening, doesn’t leave space for much bloviation. But it does have a remarkable quality of capturing the waves that ripple through the culture, and I check it several times a day. My own blog posts are automatically linked there, so it can serve as a kind of rss feed for those who don’t use a reader. And I also tend to link all the shorter stories that I find noteworthy in and of themselves, but about which I haven’t got the time, interest or expertise to blog about.

By: Ron Snyder

Ron Snyder — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:17:00 +0000

Would be interesting to hear Lexs experience/opinion on the World of Twitter.

Do not use it myself.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:57:23 +0000

Max/

Twitter? I’m a Robert Moses devotee myself. Remember in Robert Caro’s seminal work “The Powerbroker” where he describes how as head of the Port Authority of NY, Moses eschewed the intercom, but instead simply pushed a buzzer? At which point his assistant in the anteroom would physically respond to Moses’ office immediately–a visual demonstration of power and authority if there ever was one. Now THAT’s style.

Twitter= same-same Twits.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:32:30 +0000

STEVEC/

With an attitude like that, you’re my Hairy Hero–I’ll follow you anywhere. Couldn’t agree more…

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:05:07 +0000

If I’m too busy for Twitter, so is he. My bet is there’s an intern charged with this task, because the only thing hip about Gates to the Twitter crowd is the betting pool on when he’ll need to have one replaced.

Hip, that is.

And God help me, I’m right there with him.

– Max

By: STEVEC

STEVEC — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:45:12 +0000

On this point you’re right: More information is good, in general.

But, don’t these people have better things to do, and don’t we expect them to be more in the adult mode than to stand / sit around staring at a cellphone, oblivious to what is happening around them, while they pound away with their thumbs like a boy crazy 15-year old girl, just to say things like: ‘Just met with the Security Council”.

It all seems shallow and to feed the immature need to have things ‘now.’ And, if it’s information that you and I crave and think is important, can’t they put it out on the internet in the form of public announcements that read like English? Is it really necessary to have it instant, now, and quite often in some shorthand spelling code that would drive an English teacher to suicide? I’ve listened to Hugh Hewitt on his radio show talk about Twitter and all I get from it is turned way off. It just looks / sounds like a follow the leader thing based on the Obummer campaign use of that Blackberry (another adult idiot box created to keep people from actually speaking to one another. IMHO).