Public humiliation: the Hook ‘Tweats’
by Hawes Spencer
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In yet another bit of evidence of the decline, fall, and/or simply the herd-like mentality of newspapers, the Hook has begun Twittering. Or Tweating. Or something.
Friday, April 24 early morning update: Overnight, Twitter appears to have deleted all our Twitter content and followers. We just may stand down for a while, as life’s too short to Twitter away.
Friday, April 24 mid-morning update: A Cavalier Daily columnist confirms the wisdom of quitting the Twitting.
Friday, April 24 late night update: “Twitter has been experiencing database inconsistencies for several days…. everything you see is slightly off. We’re still working on getting everything back to normal.”
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Hawes sounds so enthused!
Maybe it’s just me, but I REALLY don’t “GET” Twitter. I can’t see the use in posting 140 character sentences about my so called life.
Where Oprah goes, so goes The Hook.
So disappointing.
Why ?
Now you really will need a vacation at a Buddhist Monastery !
Hook, stop it this minute! Don’t you kids make me come up there!
Oh my…..
After joining Twitter, I’ve found that most folks don’t realize how useful it can be. I don’t post updates. At all. Ever. I subscribe to Twitter user updates: CNN, BBC, Washington Post, NY Times. It’s like getting a newsfeed of all the latest headlines, right on my phone. They link to the posted stories in the updates. Since I have limited internet access on my phone, I can read the stories on their mobile sites. Locally, The Daily Progress posts real-time traffic updates for the area. MOST useful. NBC29 also has a Twitter account for local news updates. It’s all in how you use Twitter.
Have you all seen the Slate parody of Twitter, also called a mockumentary
http://www.slatev.com/player.html?id=18328570001
Before you know it we’ll be back to pen and paper as the best way to communicate –nothing like getting a hand written letter from someone you love. E-mail, twitter, and texting will never be the same for me