What the F*%k is Twitter?
Update: After a comment and a little more research, I stand corrected. The average age for Twitter users is 26.64 years old and I quote, “Twitter is Facebook for older geeks. Its demographic is bloggers.” Thanks for the correction Brandon.
San Francisco blogger and humorist Min Jung Kim wrote a Twitter haiku observing,
“twitter defined as
turning bunches of geeks to
14 year old girls.”
Twitter allows you to know what your friends are doing at any given moment via text-messages to your cell phone or by viewing the Twitter website. You can get updates on your friends as well as update them on where you are going or what you will be doing. In short all Twitter does is send mass messages about your personal life to anyone the user chooses. I can understand why this technology is being used en masse among the high school and college crowd. Presidential candidate John Edwards even uses it to update his supporters about his whereabouts and upcoming speeches.
If you ever catch me using Twitter please shoot me on the spot. I feel sick that Twitter has become popular enough that I found a need to even cover the service but the 18-25 crowd (and younger) is embracing Twitter and it is common knowledge that this group can drive sales and trends through the roof.
Twitter is yet one more example of a world obsessed with information and a constant need to be instantly gratified. I think it perfectly characterizes the excesses that American’s have come to expect in everyday life. What happened to the days when you didn’t know the latest news until 5 ‘o clock when you flipped on the TV and adjusted the rabbit ears to get rid of the white noise? Those days are long gone.
