if I sign up for Twitter ...
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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 ?
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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.