The Twitter Thread

[chaseter]

This opinion is so incredibly selfish and imbecilic.

Did you guys miss the fact that the Iran Protests were basically brought to you by twitter?

I don't like twitter. I don't use twitter. But to say that twitter doesn't matter and why would anyone care requires a severe ignorance of the world we live in today.

So we would have heard nothing about the Iranian protests if it weren't for the magic of Twitter

I love how we get so much news through the 140 character limit! If only we got all our news in 140 characters. If I was in the Iranian protests, the last thing I would have on my mind is talking about it onTwitter If I truly wanted to say something intelligent on the matter, I wouldn't use Twitter.

Twitter is just another lame excuse for celebrity addicts to see what Ashton Koosher is eating for lunch! Who honestly gives a ****? Come on, you can't have Twitter without the word TWIT

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

I enjoy Twitter, but like everything else, you need to take it in moderation. What cracks me up is the sheer volumes of energy that people spend hating it

 

[chaseter]

I think hating it is better than being obsessed with it. Spending sheer volumes of energy using it is more worse than just saying Twitter is stupid. I don't think I spend more energy typing Twitter sucks a couple of times than typing what I am doing throughout the entire day or checking what other people are doing throughout their day. I could care less that Ashton Kutcher just pooped out a 2 foot long turd.

 

[Manic]

I love how you keep using Ashton Kutcher doing mundane things as an excuse for hating Twitter while simultaneously brushing aside the fact that Twitter was used to send news of the protests in Iran. Twitter really was one of the few ways people found to get news out there. Like I said, their media was shut down at the time. It's a tool for annoyance, but has the potential to be a tool for good, and it fact has been used as such.

 

[SuperFerret]

I still don't like Twitter and I still don't care about Iran.

 

[chaseter]

I love how you keep using Ashton Kutcher doing mundane things as an excuse for hating Twitter while simultaneously brushing aside the fact that Twitter was used to send news of the protests in Iran. Twitter really was one of the few ways people found to get news out there. Like I said, their media was shut down at the time. It's a tool for annoyance, but has the potential to be a tool for good, and it fact has been used as such.

You can text more than you can twitter, you could get online and post something, or you could do it the old fashioned way and call someone! If you are on the street in the middle of a protest, would you rather call someone or sit there with your face down typing out a Twitter Soon enough, protests will become Twitter flame wars.

Ahmadinejad01:
I am totally tired of these protestors...

Iranian4Life:
**** n00b president.

IranSoFarAway:
I want my voice hurd...ODB 4 Life.

Without Twitter, nothing would have changed. Twitter didn't cause the riots, it wasn't the only source of news, it didn't help their plight, it didn't do anything. You can name 1 thing that Twitter has had a positive impact on. And, without it the impact would have been no different.

 

[Majic Walrus]

The media in Iran was shut down. Twitter and Youtube were the main outlets for information. So yes, the protests would've happened anyway. We just wouldn't have known as much about them.

Because Twitter is a trusted media source? Didn't you hear about all the plain out bold faced lies that came out of the Twitter Coverage of the Iran protests?

We might not have as much coverage of the protests but we would've had a lot less BS.

 

[StorminNorman]

And yet, if Twitter never existed, I'm sure the protests in Iran would've happened anyway. Twitter is so inconsequential that this really doesn't matter at all.

Protests that no one hears about DON'T MATTER. The Iranian government crack down on international media in the country MADE Twitter and to a lesser extent Facebook the largest source of news from Iran to the international world.

Twitter was HUGE in letting the world know what was going on.

So? Those Iran Protests would've happened anyway...

They wouldn't have been nearly as effective without twitter.

Does Twitter matter? Yes, if you're a teenage girl and want to know how big Nick Jonas' last **** was.

Again, you are simply wrong.

So we would have heard nothing about the Iranian protests if it weren't for the magic of Twitter

We would have heard about the disputed vote, but most of the information about the Iranian public resistance came from Twitter. That's not up for dispute. Twitter was a HUGE MAJOR player

I love how we get so much news through the 140 character limit! If only we got all our news in 140 characters. If I was in the Iranian protests, the last thing I would have on my mind is talking about it onTwitter If I truly wanted to say something intelligent on the matter, I wouldn't use Twitter.

Twitter was so important to the Iranian protests the US DEFENSE DEPARTMENT asked the website to restructure typical site maintenance to fit the Iranian schedule in order to keep the precious flow of information from within the country open.

Twitter is made to be mobile, for quick correspondence and for its information to spread to others instantly - that's exactly makes it so attractive to 16 year old girls raised in the cyber age. It's also what makes it so useful for protesters in a country where a tyrannical government is stamping out expression and clamping down on the information getting out of the country.

You can make the obvious jokes about Twitter and it's word count all you want, but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. Trying to argue that Twitter was not an important part of the Iranian protests (a major world event) is as fruitful as trying to argue against the sky being blue.

Just the fact you don't use it doesn't mean it isn't important or worthwhile.

Some links:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.twitter/index.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526403,00.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...est-news-travels-fast-and-far-on-Twitter.html

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/06/how-will-iranian-protests-change-twitter177.html

 

[ComicChick]

Are you serious, I can't get a celeb to talk to me for nothing.

Only cool thing that has happened to me on Twitter is Will from the Real World Hollywood is following me now. And that's pretty lame.

a lot of the celeb sites arent real. now the Official Celeb Twitters have some kinda of icon or notification on em

 

[chaseter]

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[SuperFerret]

Protests that no one hears about DON'T MATTER. The Iranian government crack down on international media in the country MADE Twitter and to a lesser extent Facebook the largest source of news from Iran to the international world.

Twitter was HUGE in letting the world know what was going on.

I'm not going to go out of my way to try to change your opinion. You're already set on it, and I respect that you disagree, and honestly, I'm not going to change my mind, or argue about something so inconsequential.

I honestly don't care about what happens in Iran, and regardless of if I do, Twitter letting us know about what was going on there still doesn't make it any more important than an electronic waste of time for teenagers.

 

[ComicChick]

i am kinda indifferent to twitter for the most part. i hate when someone "tweets" like 10 times in 10 minutes, is ridiculous

but i mainly use it to follow stores because they send out promos/discount codes/etc

i also follow the hype

 

[ComicChick]

I'm not going to go out of my way to try to change your opinion. You're already set on it, and I respect that you disagree, and honestly, I'm not going to change my mind, or argue about something so inconsequential.

I honestly don't care about what happens in Iran, and regardless of if I do, Twitter letting us know about what was going on there still doesn't make it any more important than an electronic waste of time for teenagers.

the only thing i'll add is that it isn't just teenagers using it, although i do feel that that is its main demographic

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

i must admit i joined facebook to please a bunch of people so we could could keep in touch, but honestly i don't see a point in joining twitter. my life not that exciting that i constantly need to tell others about it

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I like twitter. Me and Jonah Hill have been discussing the awesomeness of Incredibad. And Donkeylips from Salute Your Shorts is a cool dude to.

Jonah has a Twitter?

*runs to Twitter to add him*

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

i am kinda indifferent to twitter for the most part. i hate when someone "tweets" like 10 times in 10 minutes, is ridiculous

but i mainly use it to follow stores because they send out promos/discount codes/etc

i also follow the hype

:facepalm That annoys me!

 

[terry78]

Jonah has a Twitter?

*runs to Twitter to add him*

Oh, you are such a sheep in wolf's clothing.


You have no idea how long I've been saving that one.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Oh, you are such a sheep in wolf's clothing.


You have no idea how long I've been saving that one.

Just because I listen to Jonas Brothers, while reading Twilight and posting on Twitter all at the same time, doesn't mean I'm a sheep.

Twitter bird...ATTACK

 

[StorminNorman]

I'm not going to go out of my way to try to change your opinion. You're already set on it, and I respect that you disagree, and honestly, I'm not going to change my mind, or argue about something so inconsequential.

I honestly don't care about what happens in Iran, and regardless of if I do, Twitter letting us know about what was going on there still doesn't make it any more important than an electronic waste of time for teenagers.

This isn't an opinion question. This is a question that has a correct answer and a bunch of incorrect ones.

The fact Twitter was used over there to record a major world event DOES make it more important than an electronic waste of time for teenagers. Period.

 

[SuperFerret]

It is an opinion question. You think it makes it important, I don't.

 

[StorminNorman]

It is an opinion question. You think it makes it important, I don't.

And the facts only support one of those opinions.

Look, I am not trying to be a dick (it seems I can do it effortlessly) and I understand that this isn't a major topic of great importance and I understand that most users of Twitter are...annoying.

But you have to look past the easy, boring, lazy observation of Twitter as simply an internet addicted teens play thing and look at the reality of the situation. Twitter, like Facebook and MySpace and iTunes and Cell Phones and Text Messaging and other staples of a teenagers life that others may find insignificant and beneath them ARE important to the world we live in today.

You can either acknowledge that, acknowledge the reality, or refuse to. Which ever you choose isn't going to change your life or anyones life at all - it's just a question of whether you care about being right or don't. There are benefits to either choice.

 

[bullets]

Jonah has a Twitter?

*runs to Twitter to add him*

It isn't him , Jonah was on letterman making fun of it. Jonah was joking about wanting to make a bogus twitter based on the impersonator to ruin his life. funny.

 

[bullets]

The good thing about twitter is that leaked footage from comic con and the iron man 2 panel was on there today.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

It isn't him , Jonah was on letterman making fun of it. Jonah was joking about wanting to make a bogus twitter based on the impersonator to ruin his life. funny.

Yeah, I saw that. Someone was pretending to be Hill and starting crap with Jon Favreau.

 

[SuperFerret]

And the facts only support one of those opinions.

Look, I am not trying to be a dick (it seems I can do it effortlessly) and I understand that this isn't a major topic of great importance and I understand that most users of Twitter are...annoying.

But you have to look past the easy, boring, lazy observation of Twitter as simply an internet addicted teens play thing and look at the reality of the situation. Twitter, like Facebook and MySpace and iTunes and Cell Phones and Text Messaging and other staples of a teenagers life that others may find insignificant and beneath them ARE important to the world we live in today.

You can either acknowledge that, acknowledge the reality, or refuse to. Which ever you choose isn't going to change your life or anyones life at all - it's just a question of whether you care about being right or don't. There are benefits to either choice.

Look, the point I'm making is simple: If Twitter was so important then without it, events would've unfolded differently, but if Twitter didn't exist the Iranians would've found another way to get their news out, which in and of itself is of questionable importance.

Just because something can be important at times doesn't make it inherently important. Everybody has different values on what is and isn't important, which makes nearly everything's importance a relative topic.