peterfeld:

soupsoup:

Caroline McCarthy at C|Net

…one of the silliest, most superficial, and most wildly out of touch articles about Twitter that I’ve ever read.

Ha, ha, I will defend this article. Of course VF is going to do something redonk like dress all those women up for the pic, and hype the phenomenon with fakey slang and the like. That’s what they do. But VG is not dumb, and I’m sure she’s skeeved out by all her media colleagues who have gone cuckoo for cocoa-puffs over Twitter. The tone-deafness is high-level meta mockery. Is “twilebrity” any more embarrassing than “twestival,” “tweeps” and all the twee jargon that gets used for real, and which is so off-putting to outsiders? Pet rock is too harsh, I agree. Twitter is both more useful and longer lasting than a pet rock. But you were right the first time. CB radio might be a better example, and just as Friendster paved the way for profile-based social networks, I’m sure Twitter will set the template for other forms of update dissemination that may be less contrived, OCD and cult-like. But when someone twenty years from now looks up a New York Times article from 2009 and sees the word “tweeted” without quotes or qualifiers, they are going to ask themselves what the fuck. 10-4.