Last week, US President Barack Obama and State Department Officials faced a predicament: with the political wildfire spreading in Iran, they wanted a way to influence events on the ground without getting involved in them. Unsurprisingly, they turned to the Internet.
The solution was American online messaging service: Twitter. This social network had swiftly become a central source of information with blow-by-blow updates about the post-election protests.
Headlines in the Observer have commented on Twitter’s growth into a powerful political tool, in addition to its role as a social messaging service.
Twitter is quite frankly, a fucking fantastic phenomena. It allows one to keep up to date with the comments of the people that one is following. Whether it’s friends, enemies or celebrities you dig stalking – whatever it is – it’s accessible, easy and uncomplicated. Today, Ashton Kutcher was asking people to list the worst pick-up lines that they had heard. One of his personal favorites, was: “I love every bone in your body, including mine.” So, brilliant. Thanks Ashton for that.
Twitter has been dubbed a microblogging service. It reminds me of when the aristocratic Art Crits of the 19th century dubbed Monet and his crew the ‘Impressionists’. It seems to me that, if history repeating itself has anything to do with it, Twitter is going to play a bigger role in all of our lives, than we might think.
Twat. I mean Tweet. Just do it.
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