Tuesday, August 04, 2009
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Wil Wheaton on Twitter:
I was an early adopter for Twitter, I mean, relative to when Twitter blew up and I thought that it was this really cool, new way to communicate with my friends and with just random people. I come from an improv comedy background and Twitter's like this giant global game of "Yes, and..." that we can play together - it's really fun. And I was really annoyed by the explosion of kind of like big-deal mainstream celebrities who I really thought were sort of like invading our space without getting - without, like, making an effort to understand it. And then I was even more annoyed with the big mainstream media, especially CNN, for trying to take Twitter and turn it into something that it wasn't. And I think it is an enormous testament to the fundamental mindset of we, like Twitter nerds that have been using this from the beginning that we survived that, like giant explosive 15 minutes of Twitter mania. And it's great for people like us and for a show like The Guild that we can completely circumvent the traditional old rules of communication for media and go directly to interact with the audience.

Exactly, yes. I would just add as an example, Oprah's much-hyped joining of Twitter. Her first post was predictably tone-deaf:
HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .
Let's see. Calling people "Twitters" for some reason? Check. All caps? Of course. Confusing spaces before periods? You bet. There's even a self-conscious reference to Twitter as being "really 21st Century".

Now I'm not just picking out minor things for no reason - it shows exactly what he was talking about. She (or whomever was writing for her) showed no attempt to learn the rules or understand what she was using. It was popular and that was the end of it.

To which you may say, "invading our space? It's not some elite thing; can't Oprah use it if she wants?" Yes, of course. And since creating her account she has used it fully, sending a whopping 56 tweets to her almost 2 million followers. 56 in about three months and nothing since mid July. To contrast, Wil Wheaton has sent 56 in the last week, Felicia Day in 5 days, and Alyssa Milano in 3.
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