twit – A silly or foolish person.
to twit – to be in a state of nervous excitement: “we’re in a twit about your visit”
Are all tweeters twits? Is it only twits who tweet?
But there are many types of tweeters:
- Low-life tweeters who merely follow: They are rarely interesting except in contributing to trends. This group includes journalists and groupies. Journalists sift through tweets as if rummaging through dustbins looking for a scoop. For groupies there is the delusion of participation; instant and vicarious gratification. Twits
- Rich and famous tweeters: These are the people who need their egos to be constantly fed, who must live in the public eye and need reassurance that their fame still lives. They live in perpetual fear of the loss of their fame. Twits
- Politicians: They think that their expositions of political policy in 140 characters or less can get them re-elected or make them popular or can get out the young vote or ……..? Twits
- Activists, revolutionaries and rabble-rousers: They hunt for subjects to hang their punch lines onto. Success is in getting a trend going or getting a flash mob together. Twits
- Would be socialites and socialists. They set up their stalls in the hope that their 140 characters will be perceived as funny, witty, sexy, profound or insightful. They are easily gratified and are quite happy to have manged to expand a thought into something as long as 140 characters. Twits
- Corporate tweeters: These are usually overpaid and underworked PR types or advertisers selling something (usually something quite unnecessary) and who live in a fantasy of creating a “hit” or a “best-seller” in 140 characters or less. Twits
- Updates
- Re-tweeters: Who have nothing original to say for themselves but who try to remain in the thick of things by re-tweeting. Twits
I am unable to find a category of tweeters who could be considered high-class.
There may be tweeters who are not twits. But that remains to be demonstrated. The empirical evidence suggests that all tweeters are twits.
My hypothesis is that only twits tweet.
“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan
Perhaps the message of the Twitter medium is that the tweeter is a twit.
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