Happy Birthday, Twitter: You’re Incredible and Horrendous

Twitter turns 5 yr old today ! What an adorable and accomplished and incredibly rich small tot . Twitter ’s become internet - ubiquitous in those five year . It ’s also become the most singularly crackbrained and tremendous thing in net history .

I do n’t remember when I first heard about Twitter , much in the same way of life that I do n’t remember when I first try someone say “ text ” or “ chat room ” or “ free pornography . ” look back , it feels like it was there all along — which is sort of scary . It ’s retrospectively permanent - feeling , like the internet itself , and yet novel enough to still sense crass . I cringe when I hear a dignified news newsman solicit tweets from his or her hearing .

But why ? Twitter has in recent months proven to be one of the most unambiguously open sources of news - funnel in the story of communication . With only the most rudimentary of equipment , anyone in the world can relay anything in the world — a death toll , an plosion , a shout for assistance , an vocalization of defiance . I have CNN and a bevy of other high - budget 24/7 news networks , and yet I still look up at my Twitter feed for news on Libya , Egypt , and the remainder of democratically exploding hotspots that’ve used Twitter itself to guarantee these 140 fictitious character despatch .

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At sentence it seems Twitter is useful for literally two affair only : poor ego - affirmation and regime change .

https://gizmodo.com/justin-bieber-has-dedicated-servers-at-twitter-5632095

But we ’re drowning in it . Fundamentally , we do n’t give a shit about most of the things we say on Twitter . perchance we have to , for work , or out of good manners , or what have you — but Twitter reel itself into a pulsating blob of interference , to the extent thatworkarounds like Proxlethave sprung up to cut out the interference . randomness that we ’re blasting into our brains by our own will . Noise that we desire , because we want to feel part of the group . All of the groups .

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https://lifehacker.com/this-is-how-to-silence-enemies-apple-fanboys-or-justin-5744650

The Tech Geek Elite — Does anyone do it how to [ slip in obscure CSS thing ] without it breaking ! RT ANYONE ELSE ’S IPAD 2 SMELL LIKE CHERRY sassing BALM ?

The Media line-shooter — Check out my new piece in [ insert stagnant mark publication ] ! PAYWALL PAYWALL PAYWALL J - SCHOOL ? PAYWALL

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The Celebrities — TY FOR ALL THE LOVE AND SUPPORT LUV U GUYS

The Idiots—#WINNING#BIWINNING#TIGERBLOOD#FUCKOHIOSTATE

The Tweens — CHRISTINA U BITCH , W / E IM SO OVER IT#fml

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The Bieber Hive — Ugh , whatever , justclick this . Harry Potter and Twilight rooter can also be stuffed into this sordid venn diagram of endocrine and wretched capitalization .

And then , just when it seems stupid beyond mention , it ’s the first position we find news of a Fukushima nuclear reactor melting down .

pull brevity has bestow out both the absolute worst and best of online yack . Which forces us into form of a mess , huh ? If we do n’t want to give up the unparalleled access to the crises of the world — which we don’t — we’ll have to give adequate space for the the stupid blabbering mass . There ’s no compromise . Both are using Twitter as it was designed — for outbursts . Whether that outburst is from the mouthpiece of a dictator - toppling Cuban sandwich or toppling - over sodality zany is out of our ascendancy .

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