so recently, i heard ashton kutcher threaten to “ding-dong-ditch” ted turner’s house if he beat CNN to the million follower mark on twitter. Am i the only one who had never heard the phrase “ding-dong-ditch“? that sounds like a bunch of douche-baggery to me.
so as i write this, i’m copying more than 12-gigabytes worth of photos that my good friend josh shot of misty & i. also, every time i say the word “gigabyte” i feel like doc brown from ‘back to the future‘ telling marty mcfly that we’re going to need 1.21 GIGAWATTS of power—but i digress.
so how about that oprah learning how to twitter? wow. cutting edge stuff there, kids. here’s video of the twitter-segment where she calls ashton kutcher the “king of twitter”.
so do i think twitter has jumped the shark? yes. did it happen today on Oprah? no. twitter went flying over the great-whit when celebrities realized they could control their own press coverage via twitter AND twitter realized they could monopolize on those same celebrities by creating the “Twitter Recommends Following” list that every new user was met with seconds after creating an account.
if you’re just hearing about twitter, then signup for an account and join the fun, b/c we’re at the crest of the wave. don’t believe me? do you remember AOL, CompuServe or MSN? the walled-garden paradigm has never succeeded online and eventually concedes to open standards. the walled-garden killed IM and MySpace and if Twitter doesn’t evolve, it will meet the same fate.
so what should you do about it? well, frankly, you should follow me on twitter b/c going against our “king” or “queen” spells big fuck trouble.
