Mr. Diggles

the daily show twitter frenzy

Posted: March 4, 2009

my friend julie showed this to me and i thought it was great. well, really most things that come out of the daily show are great.

this is yet another great example of how social media is seeping into everything even if most people don’t understand it. my favorite part is when jon stewart says i have no idea how it works – at least he is honest. i have tried to explain how twitter works to many people and every person seems to have the same response… uh, so what’s so great about that?

twitter is one of those things that seems to lack a major overlaying purpose but since it has no absolute purpose it has spawned multiple purposes, which in turn makes me wonder how many times one can use the word purpose in a sentence. t minus 140 characters people. the purpose of this post isn’t to talk about how twitter works.

a good example of a worthless yet entertaining purpose is cursebird – a real-time feed of people swearing on twitter.

i was actually shocked when saw that i have never used a bad word on twitter. so shocked i literally stood up and said fuk! – i lvoe how the site shows you when the average numbers are up or down. i would like to hear a news reporter report on that – the dow dropped 80 points today but the good news is that shit is up by 4% and bitch also is on a steady climb.

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