Twitter just sent out a recommendation for improving the chance of one’s tweets to be noticed: “Short and sweet. Sticking to 140 characters may be challenging, but Tweets that are even shorter (less than 70 characters) normally get more engagement. Here are some tips for writing effective Twitter Ads copy…”
OMG! Yes, I get it that our lives have become terribly busy, overloaded, and stressful. I am a prime example. Toiling for the moneycrats, we hardly have time to breathe, leave alone read articles of mine, watch independent news, catch up on our emails, or even read a whopping 140 characters on our hero site Twitter which came at us with the bright idea of shortening our communications (by force!) to 140 characters, just enough text to describe the booger you just picked out of your nose and that the whole world must know about. Yes, thank you Twitter! The dumbing down you have done for us is splendid. In this horrible world, which gets worse every year, a dumb mind is all we have left to help us tolerate it. A world made for twits, Twitter’s favorite customers.
I can see the trend continuing. 140 characters originally… 70 characters now… and in the end just one short word: HELP!
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Twitter just shows how much we’ve dumbed down human beings, IMO. If you can’t say anything meaningful in 140 characters, you sure as heck won’t in only 70.
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And the guys who did a big part of dumbing down a whole generation got insanely rich in the process. It’s so awfully symptomatic of the warped system we live in.
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