if I sign up for Twitter ...
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:confused: I fail to see why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place. Given that you do want a Twitter account, why should you care what Twits with pretensions to literacy think of your prose? As for the actual message, intelligent Tweeters (the null set?) might see it as a challenge, while the Intellectual Proletariat would probably see it as condescending (i.e. you use multi-syllabilic words). In neither case do I see this ending well.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place
Me too ! :wtf:
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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You can get a Haiku into 140 characters:
On a moonlit pond
See a perfect ringlet grow
As each raindrop falls"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
This is a beautiful haiku ! While the ironic/satiric intent of my 280 character proto-tweet post was, apparently, lost in translation for most :) ... I think your reply has redeemed it :omg:
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I really wouldn't worry. There are 1.3billion Twitter accounts but the chances of any of them stumbling across your tweet is vanishingly small (especially with a total absence of hashtags or any "trending" content). The only people who stand any chance of ever seeing it is the subset of Twitter users who are your friends AND whom you invite AND can actually be bothered to look rather than just telling you they will. I started a Twitter account 10 years ago this month for my wife's beekeeping activities; we're now up to 356 followers but probably only around 100 of those will ever even log on to Twitter, and maybe a dozen will see our tweets. The only plus point is that my cool "millenial" daughter has just under 200 followers, a source of constant chagrin to her! If you really want to get attention on Twitter, the only way is to hijack some other mega-thread which is likely to be about some "celeb" or other, but the followers of that thread may struggle with words like "permissible" and "compelling". :)
Well, I think my pseudo-tweet post did not fly as irony/satire :)
DerekT-P wrote:
If you really want to get attention on Twitter
I've never had a Twitter account, and never will ... but, let me assure you that, if I ever did, I would strive to make each tweet as verbose/glossolalic as possible with the assumption that anything that reduced the number of followers to a minimum was optimal.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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This is a beautiful haiku ! While the ironic/satiric intent of my 280 character proto-tweet post was, apparently, lost in translation for most :) ... I think your reply has redeemed it :omg:
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
:-O
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place
Me too ! :wtf:
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
Oh, you were expressing yourself in the subjunctive. :)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Oh, you were expressing yourself in the subjunctive. :)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
... more in the meta-subjunctive, at the semantic boundary where fantasy becomes irony ? :wtf: cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Well, I think my pseudo-tweet post did not fly as irony/satire :)
DerekT-P wrote:
If you really want to get attention on Twitter
I've never had a Twitter account, and never will ... but, let me assure you that, if I ever did, I would strive to make each tweet as verbose/glossolalic as possible with the assumption that anything that reduced the number of followers to a minimum was optimal.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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It sure didn't. As a tool, Twitter can be used appropriately (when it can be very useful) or it can be mis-used.
DerekT-P wrote:
As a tool, Twitter can be used appropriately (when it can be very useful)
Hi Derek, I am sure you are right, and I'd be curious to know what some specific appropriate uses are. By choice, I'm kind of halfway round the world, and am something of a hermit; since about ten years ago don't know other nerds to hang out with here ... who are worth hanging out with :) The few digerati Thais I know that are using Twitter/FaceBook/Line/Instagram are, imho, often immersed in it deeply, playing games, watching videos. imho, they are filling their heads with static more than they are doing useful things like checking on the kids, whatever. But, that's also a reflection of the fact that, historically, Thai culture is centered on groups that often maintain constant intimate contact (of course, that's rapidly changing as westernization takes hold). Someone like me, who lives in a house, alone, is considered very odd by Thais. But, there are some advantages of appearing to be a puzzle :) cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I'd appreciate your feedback on this first draft for my first Tweet; I mean: does it come across as "not woke," or, "virtue signaling," or, could it "trigger" someone's ("vocabulary challenged" ?) delicate sensibilities ?
Quote:
In spite of Twitter raising the permissible Tweet length from one-hundred-forty to two-hundred-eighty characters, the most compelling reason to never create a Twitter account is the difficulty, if not impossibility, of saying anything intelligent in two-hundred-eighty characters.
Does that sound more like a "cheep" than a "tweet" ? thanks, in advance, for helping me come out of the gate ready to gallop ! p.s. do you think a post like this might get a following (stalking ?) from other OCD Tweeters; or, get me flamed by the "Remember140" collective; or, attacked for contributing to climate change by wasting pixels ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
"Nothing worthwhile has ever been typed with one's thumbs" I'd just leave it at that, but YMMV.
Real programmers use butterflies
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:confused: I fail to see why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place. Given that you do want a Twitter account, why should you care what Twits with pretensions to literacy think of your prose? As for the actual message, intelligent Tweeters (the null set?) might see it as a challenge, while the Intellectual Proletariat would probably see it as condescending (i.e. you use multi-syllabilic words). In neither case do I see this ending well.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
I fail to see why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place.
I've got a Twitter account, but it is set to private as are all Tweets made using it. It's so I can test code or other solutions that integrate with their API before I point it towards a customer's account. Those customers use it for business purposes, press releases, and other public statements. Now I'm not trying to imply that I'm intelligent, I think my first tweet was along the lines of "Is this thing even working!?" which I then promptly deleted. Nor am I implying that my customers are, even though some are quite well educated. For that matter, does Neil deGrasse Tyson fall into the null set of intelligent Tweeters (Twits?)?
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
I fail to see why an obviously intelligent person would want a Twitter account in the first place.
I've got a Twitter account, but it is set to private as are all Tweets made using it. It's so I can test code or other solutions that integrate with their API before I point it towards a customer's account. Those customers use it for business purposes, press releases, and other public statements. Now I'm not trying to imply that I'm intelligent, I think my first tweet was along the lines of "Is this thing even working!?" which I then promptly deleted. Nor am I implying that my customers are, even though some are quite well educated. For that matter, does Neil deGrasse Tyson fall into the null set of intelligent Tweeters (Twits?)?
Given the reputation of Twitter, it is not a place where I would expect to find intelligent conversation or intelligent people. By way of analogy, there may be perfectly innocent reasons for a man to be in the red-light district after dark, but the odds are against it. I stipulate that some intelligent people may find it a useful tool, but again - the odds are against it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
