I love the CollegeHumor site, but a recent video that makes fun of Twitter is brain-dead stupid. The premise is: What if people did Twitter in real life? So the video shows a guy (a comedian, it turns out) standing in public in a big city loudly saying the kinds of things people say on Twitter.
What stupid about this is that this is the opposite of Twitter.
The guy saying banal things in public is forcing strangers who don’t want anything to do with him to listen to his comments. Twitter is all about saying things to people who have gone out of their way to hear what you have to say.
Ironically, the comedian in the video mentions his comedy show. A comedy show is exactly like Twitter. People go there to hear him talk, just like on Twitter.
I’m all for criticizing Twitter. But it’s simply stupid to criticize Twitter for forcing comments on other people, when the sole feature that makes Twitter different is that you cannot force strangers to listen to you.
Original post by Mike
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