Twitter is fast becoming a viral distribution platform for not just the NYT´s news - but everyone´s content. Record labels have spent a decade fighting an unwinnable war against viral distribution - file-sharing - and have destroyed their ability to create value in the process. Newspapers are making the same mistake - and acquiring Twitter would turn the tables. [However,] if Google snaps up Twitter instead, it likely really will be the end of newspapers as we know them.
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How to Save Newspapers (Or, Why the NYT Should Acquire Twitter) - Umair Haque (via catbird) (via goodnightmoon)
Here’s my opinion: Burn Twitter to the motherfucking ground. How about that? What other methods has society used to send intelligent people meandering? Television, radio, gladiator arenas.
In the new technological theater, distracted people spend time focusing on their Facebook and Twitter updates rather than anything productive. This is time consumption, alcoholic-breeding, spiritual terror. It’s like a full-time job talking to pickles about pickling in Union Square. With Twitter, instead of achieving an end in the tangible realm, you can instead Twitter a facile achievement and have a sense of accomplishment. You’ve put it out into the “real world” where “people can see it” and for 1 second, you’re famous. To fifteen people who are scanning their Twitter feed.
As if blogging weren’t bad enough, inane 25-word “Tweets” pollute the static of society. I hate Twitter. It is stupid. Maintaining an account takes just as much effort as it takes to actually produce something of tangible worth. Sorry if I offend anyone that uses Twitter. But please, get off that shit. Twitter? Really? Hot Thing #325236783458888.
Who the shit wants a news update that is 45 characters long? Do you go around reading headlines and calling it a day? Is this how we are going mentally evolve for information digestion? In soundbites? How do you ever plan on focusing in on anything in front of such a wide pellet-spray of bullshit?
How about NYT: Fuck Twitter. Be inventive. You can come to me for ideas, I’ve got plenty sitting around.
