Friday, March 27, 2009

Are You Ready to Tweet in the World of Twittersphere?

By now, unless you have given up the Internet for Lent or you just don't trust any communication that doesn't have a stamp on it, you have surely heard of Twitter. Rick Sanchez of CNN plucked the interactive social networking into his pm show and watched his ratings soar. I joined a month ago and already as "birdsivue" I have found interesting people and sites. I enjoy breaking news and news you can use. Twitter is the high tech version of "pass it on". Only now, instead of whispering in some one's ear, you are "passing on" personal tidbits composed of 140 characters of text to well, the World!
If you follow celebrities and want to know that Jimmy Fallon had meetings all morning or that "Shaq" ran into his fav reporter, Cheryl Miller, in Portland, you are a "twitterlebrity", meaning either you get a thrill from being allowed into the lives of the rich and famous or you wish you somehow could twitter your way into fame. Ironically many famous people who tell you about the most mundane routines of their day, hire writers to post this twitterings correctly and they are called "ghost twitterers". Brittany Spears was recently looking for a decent ghost twitterer. Well, at least this helps the stimulus plan by creating new jobs. If you author bad tweets, you could be twat upon. If you are addicted to the "twittersphere" you are a "tweetaholic". The words you use in a tweet are "twords" of course. If you send off a tweet you wish you hadn't, it's a "mistweet". We people of the Twitter World are called "tweeps", no not creeps, OK? By now are you feeling a little twitter of understanding of this in- the- clouds networking? I just made up my own twitterism, "twitty", no not Conway Twitty, but twitty meaning funny, LOL, or LMAO. Of course, who can forget the great line in the movie, "Arthur", when Arthur's butler called him "You little twit!" I think that twits should now describe kid twitterers and older folks should be termed "jittertwitters" and send their tweets sms via their Jitterbug phones. Okay, I'll bring this to a close, but before you dismiss this phenomena as a a mindless collection of one-liners, note that surgeons are now using Twitter during complicated surgeries in order to communicate procedures. On the lighter side, go The Huffington Post and check out the video, Fail Whale Cartoon. It's absolutely "twitty"!

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