E-Dribble » twit http://www.infosprite.com vaccuum packed mindless ramblings Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:33:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 This finally proves that we are dealing with a legitimate form of media http://www.infosprite.com/2009/04/19/this-finally-proves-that-we-are-dealing-with-a-legitimate-form-of-media/ http://www.infosprite.com/2009/04/19/this-finally-proves-that-we-are-dealing-with-a-legitimate-form-of-media/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:24:05 +0000 schwim http://www.infosprite.com/?p=317 There was a time when I thought that Twitter was one of the most insipid societal fads to come down the pipeline in my lifetime.  Then CNN set me straight.  It’s not insipid.  It’s main stream.  It’s cool.  We know this because Ashton Kutcher, Puff Daddy and Oprah say so.

You see, Ashton and CNN were in a heated race to be the first to have 1 million subscribers to their Twitter channel. You may think that it was done in good humour, but no, this was serious business.  I’m going to share some quotes from the superstar, Ashton himself.  Wondering if these came from his twits?  Don’t be silly.  You have no room for complete sentences, much less fully formed thoughts that make sense.  No sir, he went on “Larry King Live” to talk about this “battle”.  He wanted to explain why this “duel” had to happen.

“At the end of the day, we all have ego, we all have some level of ego, but if we can use our ego to actually create good charitable things in the world in some way, and use our ego — originally, I defined Twitter as an ego stream when I first saw it. But then what I realized is if we can transform that into something that’s positive that can actually effectively change the world, that can be a really valuable tool.”

That’s one hell of a sentence, there Ashton.

There are also some quotable quotes from Oprah Winfrey and Sean P-Diddy “Puff Daddy” Combs.  It’s hard for me to allow the type of content to make it to my clipboard, but I will say that Puff said “bling bling” and Oprah thanked her loyal followers for supporting her during this brave new world of twits.  Of note is the fact that Oprah had over 73,000 followers on Twitter before actually twitting anything.  You guys get that?  almost 75 thousand people joined her channel before she did.  This proves Ashton’s point that although he’s a celebrity, we’re all the same really.  For instance, were I to create a Twitter account, there is a good chance that 75,000 people would sign up to hear about my latest bowel movement before I got a chance to actually write anything.

Oh, and Puff daddy wants you to know that he has substance.  If a 140 character restriction suited anyone, it would be him.

UPDATE:

CNN congratulates Ashton and includes the following in their kudos:

Now more than ever, the consumer is in the driver’s seat and we couldn’t be more gratified than to be part of this historic social media milestone.

If that truly is the case, the consumer is more of a fucktard than I originally assumed.

That’s saying a lot.

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