Comments on: Some Thoughts on Twitter http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:15:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: bitjockey http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-239534 bitjockey Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:32:46 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-239534 Related humor - www.katzenklavier.com Related humor -

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]]> By: hue http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238625 hue Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:44:37 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238625 bergsten, the real cause of the Great Recession: twitter, facecrack, blogs, the internet ;-) if i owned a company, i would never give employees Internet access. they can't bring in iphones or crackberries either haha. but i never will own a co. bergsten, the real cause of the Great Recession: twitter, facecrack, blogs, the internet ;-)
if i owned a company, i would never give employees Internet access. they can’t bring in iphones or crackberries either haha. but i never will own a co.

]]> By: bergsten http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238591 bergsten Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:48:21 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238591 Twitter will be killed once it occurs to the owners that they can sell the ability to send unsolicited twits (tweets?) to everyone or groups by demographic. Thus will yet another form of mass media be strangled by advertising (but in the meantime, the founders will make billions). Twitter will be killed once it occurs to the owners that they can sell the ability to send unsolicited twits (tweets?) to everyone or groups by demographic.

Thus will yet another form of mass media be strangled by advertising (but in the meantime, the founders will make billions).

]]> By: bergsten http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238587 bergsten Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:36:21 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238587 @wunsacon 9:42 -- that would be telling. Anyway, he only THINKS it's his chair, and the orange juice was expired. @wunsacon 9:42 — that would be telling. Anyway, he only THINKS it’s his chair, and the orange juice was expired.

]]> By: bergsten http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238586 bergsten Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:28:17 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238586 @hue -- Somebody <i>always</i> finds time to read -- if nothing else, to avoid doing real work. @hue — Somebody always finds time to read — if nothing else, to avoid doing real work.

]]> By: dwkunkel http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238538 dwkunkel Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:55:32 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238538 Time for thoughtful reflection is rapidly vanishing from our lives while we are increasingly being bombarded by stream of conciousness drivel. Time for thoughtful reflection is rapidly vanishing from our lives while we are increasingly being bombarded by stream of conciousness drivel.

]]> By: gbgasser http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238518 gbgasser Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:16:33 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238518 I read some time back (I cant remember where) that Twitter was something that people of a more conservative bent were attracted to. Maybe this explains its devolvement into a network specializing in useless, trivial information. I read some time back (I cant remember where) that Twitter was something that people of a more conservative bent were attracted to.

Maybe this explains its devolvement into a network specializing in useless, trivial information.

]]> By: hue http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238478 hue Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:17:54 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238478 thx, cman "Right now I’m writing a post that no one will probably read because it is a topic from yesterday." kinda like twitter. i'm watching paint dry http://bit.ly/7fg6bO thx, cman

“Right now I’m writing a post that no one will probably read because it is a topic from yesterday.”

kinda like twitter. i’m watching paint dry http://bit.ly/7fg6bO

]]> By: LR European http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238477 LR European Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:16:59 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238477 How refreshing to find that intelligent people are starting to object to the Twitter phenomenon. I recognise that there may be some valid applications in specific cases (for example alerts to new articles, or a quick way to share time critical information), but more broadly Twitter undermines our ability to think and communicate eloquently and as such is a destructive technology for our 'civilisation'. Taking my resistance to the concept a step further (and quite probably losing agreement), I would say that Twitter is, or certainly has the potential to be, a dangerous technology. Unthinking 'following' of a slogan has been behind many of the most shameful chapters of human history. Twitter lends itself to being used to incite violence and unrest. For some reason, thinking people view the use of Twitter in the recent Iranian unrest as a triumph but beyond mobilising a minority to riot (not a majority, we see, given the total failure to fall in with national strikes), it is not clear at all that Twitter contributed to the good of those involved or their country. How will we feel when Twitter is used to incite riots in the streets of Boston or of London? How about when it is used to incite mob violence against an individual (a CEO, a sports personality) which leads to his or her violent death? These are the awful realities of human nature, the simmering dangers latent within any society, but now brought dangerously close to hair-trigger activation by any group who can devise sufficiently compelling messages in 140 characters that no one need even trouble to feel they should pause to think more deeply about before acting. How refreshing to find that intelligent people are starting to object to the Twitter phenomenon.

I recognise that there may be some valid applications in specific cases (for example alerts to new articles, or a quick way to share time critical information), but more broadly Twitter undermines our ability to think and communicate eloquently and as such is a destructive technology for our ‘civilisation’.

Taking my resistance to the concept a step further (and quite probably losing agreement), I would say that Twitter is, or certainly has the potential to be, a dangerous technology.

Unthinking ‘following’ of a slogan has been behind many of the most shameful chapters of human history. Twitter lends itself to being used to incite violence and unrest. For some reason, thinking people view the use of Twitter in the recent Iranian unrest as a triumph but beyond mobilising a minority to riot (not a majority, we see, given the total failure to fall in with national strikes), it is not clear at all that Twitter contributed to the good of those involved or their country. How will we feel when Twitter is used to incite riots in the streets of Boston or of London? How about when it is used to incite mob violence against an individual (a CEO, a sports personality) which leads to his or her violent death?

These are the awful realities of human nature, the simmering dangers latent within any society, but now brought dangerously close to hair-trigger activation by any group who can devise sufficiently compelling messages in 140 characters that no one need even trouble to feel they should pause to think more deeply about before acting.

]]> By: Dogfish http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/some-thoughts-on-twitter/comment-page-2/#comment-238475 Dogfish Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:03:17 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=44553#comment-238475 Facebook and Twitter (formerly friendster and livejournal.. to be supplanted by some other similar services in the future) are the perfect outlets for the large number of our fellow Americans who live in a media-promoted celebrity fantasy land, watching American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, believing they are only one post away from being discovered as the superstar they are, and rewarded with fame and riches and their own reality show. Part of me feels that way, and that in a way it's justified because economic mobility in our economy has been limited in so many ways that the "lottery approach" is seen by many as the most viable way for them to fulfill the expectations of success that the media conjure for us all. Get blessed by some "elite", or remain banished to the underclass. As an aside, it warms my heart to of seen two mentions of Smedley Butler on this blog just today. REMEMBER SMEDLEY BUTLER! And read up on "The Business Plot". Facebook and Twitter (formerly friendster and livejournal.. to be supplanted by some other similar services in the future) are the perfect outlets for the large number of our fellow Americans who live in a media-promoted celebrity fantasy land, watching American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, believing they are only one post away from being discovered as the superstar they are, and rewarded with fame and riches and their own reality show.

Part of me feels that way, and that in a way it’s justified because economic mobility in our economy has been limited in so many ways that the “lottery approach” is seen by many as the most viable way for them to fulfill the expectations of success that the media conjure for us all.

Get blessed by some “elite”, or remain banished to the underclass.

As an aside, it warms my heart to of seen two mentions of Smedley Butler on this blog just today. REMEMBER SMEDLEY BUTLER! And read up on “The Business Plot”.

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