To Tweet.
Twitter is a social networking service for friends, family etc, to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
It’s results; quick short bursts of updates are fascinating. Not so much because it makes me feel me more connected to the people in my circle that are so-called ‘Twitterers’, but because something so new is in fact taking the role of something so established: the Village Idiot.
Can you imagine doing in the real world what Twitterers are doing online? For instance, walking into a café in Berlin and shouting out loud: “JUST GOT TO BERLIN AND HAVING FIRST COFFEE, BRILLIANT!” to no one in particular.
My guess is, that most folk will give you an awkward look before getting on with whatever it was that they were doing. A look that was once reserved for those lovable loonies that every community has, the religious freak belting out bible texts, the old schizoid just shouting out obscenities or that little old lady muttering whatever comes to her mind while she shuffles around town…
Those who embrace the new and the hip champion twitter, but the real visionaries were of course those who used to Twitter analog: the Village Idiots.
