Twitter Is Like The Womb, says The Sunday Times
Andy Pemberton of The Sunday Times has posted a… courageous article about Twitter. There are articles where you can tell that a writer has started from a neutral position and investigated something new. Pemberton is not one of those.
His “A Load of Twitter” starts poorly, with a strap-line that says “Feel the need to tell everyone everything you’re doing all of the time? Then tweeting is for you” and goes downhill from there. Let me lift out some quotes, because I’m not sure where to start…
And just who are the “followers” willing to tune into this rolling news service of the ego?
“Twittering stems from a lack of identity. It’s a constant update of who you are, what you are, where you are. Nobody would Twitter if they had a strong sense of identity.”
“Using Twitter suggests a level of insecurity whereby, unless people recognise you, you cease to exist.”
“I would guess that the typical profile of a ‘follower’ is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don’t have an inner life,” he says.
And my personal favourite…
“The primary fantasy for most people is that [on Twitter] we can be as connected as we were in the womb, a situation of total closeness,”
Oh dear. Let’s hope Joanna can give a kick up the proverbial 2.0 to coverage like this in the near future.
February 22, 2009; Mainstream Media, Twitter;
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