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When I first heard about Twitter last year, I thought the name was cute, but wondered - who needs a site dedicated to status updates when we have Facebook? "It's the latest phenomenon that no one knows how to make money on," said my husband. "At some point you have to write about it."
Finally, other day over lunch, my different-generation-for-sure babysitter, Emma, laid it out for me:
"Twitter is great. Senator Claire McCaskall (D-Missouri) is one of my favourites - she updates from the floor of the US Congress and gets in trouble for it. And Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) recently had an argument on Twitter. Plus Obama (Um-President) used to be on Twitter and now he's president!"
(clairecmc writes: "ok ok, brain freeze. I know you can only get Diet Pepsi at Taco Bell." I wonder: they have Taco bell on the Congress floor?)
"Oh, and how funny is this? My Senator from Virginia is following me because I'm following him. Or his aides are, anyway."
(MarkWarner is a brand-new senator. No wonder he's this cool.)
"And don't tell anyone this part, but I do sometimes check out Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, since they're actually really funny and always post videos from parties, or regular life."
(mrskutcher writes a lot about books. I wonder when she has time to read.)
"I tried following Questionable Content, which is a webcomic, and each character has their own Twitter page. But it got too complicated keeping real life from the fictitious life straight, so I had to drop them."
(fayewhitaker writes too many expletives to be included here.)
"My friend, Victoria, follows Stephen Fry, who is apparently one of the most popular people on Twitter *, probably because he updates literally all the time. Victoria said she feels like she knows him better than her own sister. Which is a little weird."
(stephenfry writes: "My first blue pen.s experience at the cinema too. Smurf alarm." I wonder: could this possibly be what Victoria is talking about?)
"Plus," she adds, "you don't even have to sign up to Twitter to read someone's tweets."
So what does nonnyrobin write? "have to stop winging and accept that america is not the pit of misery i keep pretending. after all, they do have target. and oreos."
I wonder how, at 23, Emma can be so wise.
* stephenfry is actually the eighth most popular person on Twitter, with 306,757 followers. BarackObama is the most popular person, with 461,903 (although one institution beat even him, and that's CNN). aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) falls somewhere in the middle with 351,525. **
** These figures are accurate as of 21:33 on Sunday the 15th of March 2009.
"Twitter is great. Senator Claire McCaskall (D-Missouri) is one of my favourites - she updates from the floor of the US Congress and gets in trouble for it. And Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) recently had an argument on Twitter. Plus Obama (Um-President) used to be on Twitter and now he's president!"
(clairecmc writes: "ok ok, brain freeze. I know you can only get Diet Pepsi at Taco Bell." I wonder: they have Taco bell on the Congress floor?)
"Oh, and how funny is this? My Senator from Virginia is following me because I'm following him. Or his aides are, anyway."
(MarkWarner is a brand-new senator. No wonder he's this cool.)
"And don't tell anyone this part, but I do sometimes check out Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, since they're actually really funny and always post videos from parties, or regular life."
(mrskutcher writes a lot about books. I wonder when she has time to read.)
"I tried following Questionable Content, which is a webcomic, and each character has their own Twitter page. But it got too complicated keeping real life from the fictitious life straight, so I had to drop them."
(fayewhitaker writes too many expletives to be included here.)
"My friend, Victoria, follows Stephen Fry, who is apparently one of the most popular people on Twitter *, probably because he updates literally all the time. Victoria said she feels like she knows him better than her own sister. Which is a little weird."
(stephenfry writes: "My first blue pen.s experience at the cinema too. Smurf alarm." I wonder: could this possibly be what Victoria is talking about?)
"Plus," she adds, "you don't even have to sign up to Twitter to read someone's tweets."
So what does nonnyrobin write? "have to stop winging and accept that america is not the pit of misery i keep pretending. after all, they do have target. and oreos."
I wonder how, at 23, Emma can be so wise.
* stephenfry is actually the eighth most popular person on Twitter, with 306,757 followers. BarackObama is the most popular person, with 461,903 (although one institution beat even him, and that's CNN). aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) falls somewhere in the middle with 351,525. **
** These figures are accurate as of 21:33 on Sunday the 15th of March 2009.
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