5th
Oh look, another one. Worse yet: I count 5 instances of Twitter as a tool for communicating breakfast preferences in this article. (I didn’t read the whole thing — and I don’t recommend you attempt it, either — eventually resorting to cmd-f’ing for “breakfast”.)
Five.
I get it: some people don’t understand Twitter. That’s fine; I don’t understand hot rod racing and binge drinking (for example), but those are also popular pursuits, apparently. My objections arise from the fact that these people seem to lack the imagination to think of anything more interesting to expend 140 characters on than breakfast updates. Off the top of my head, Twitter is proven to be tremendously useful for breaking news, networking, telling jokes, real-time search, and even finding out when your plants need watering. The possibilities are numerous, perhaps even endless.
Journalists doing this are even worse than the general public. Journalists presumably possess the intellectual weight to report regularly on matters of public interest. It’s not easy to get into the journalism racket, and if you’re writing for Time, you’ve done well. But you’re still completely fucking incapable of thinking of something better than breakfast updates to use 140 characters for? These people earn their livings writing hundreds or thousands of words on a regular basis. They shape, and wrangle, and mold words to their design, making sure they communicate the message they want them to communicate. It’s their job to clue in the public about whatever. But they still can’t think of anything interesting to do with 140 characters. It’s embarrassing, quite frankly.
