Twitter after Ashton Kutcher: Did it just jump the shark?
I don't know if "Dodger Talk" host -- and Emmy-winning TV comedy writer -- Ken Levine is really having a colonoscopy today, but he sure milks the idea for all its worth with this great new post spoofing the overkill of inane musings that seems to dominate the world of tweet-dom these days.
If you've begun to worry that perhaps we're all OD-ing on mindless Ashton-Kutcher-style Twit Chat, this could be the coup de grace. A brief sample of Levine's faux-twittering:
Okay. Starting to take the stuff.
Ugggghhh! It tastes terrible. Mood: Irritable.
Thinking of a Staycation this year. Any suggestions where I could stay?
It's been a half hour. When is this stuff supposed to work?
45 minutes. Still nothing.
An hour. What's the deal???
Just filled out my All-Star ballot.
[EXPLETIVE DELETED} !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kill me NOW!!!!!!!!!!
YEOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's working.
Oh, Christ! I forgot. Today's the day we scheduled an OPEN HOUSE here.
No, you can't see the bathroom. It's currently occupied.
Hey my legs have gone to sleep. Has that ever happened to you?
TWITTER JUMPS THE SHARK, PART TWO: LARRY KING WEIGHS IN:
Photo: Ashton Kutcher. Credit: Hermann J. Knippertz / Associated Press
It jumped it. I am so over social sites all they have done is hurt my life anyways. They need better rules and better ways for internet rules for people, companies, and celebrities these days so what happened to me won't happen to anyone else ever again. I mean ever, ever, ever, again. I don't even use twitter,
1, I think it's stupid.
2, It's so boring and stupid even compared to "good" social sites.
3. It will eventually hurt people anyways, so why not just find a better use for it.
4. Celebrities are so over-rated and some of their ideas is why the economy is how it is in some places in the first place, so why not change things anyways, and make stronger and safer rules for all websites and find better ways for people to do business so that a person can't claim authorship or force people into contracts-which is a rumored crime on Twitter already, from what I have read on outside blogs.
5. Ashton, he is smart and you did mispell his name, but people need better hobbies or else have the education and job situation changed somehow.
6. Shouldn't people focus on that.
7. I did tell the truth.
I did legally leave Sandra's contracts, sorry they brought it here to LAT. I was right Twitter is stupid and they need better, safer, cheaper, and greener tech for the internert and all websites publically or privately owned.
Posted by: bookfan | April 27, 2009 at 05:53 PM
Duh. A long time ago. Ashton, Demi, Oprah, ugh.
Posted by: Jack Henry | April 27, 2009 at 06:35 PM
God help me. Why do the ones you love (Twitter) always push you away?
Posted by: Dan Parsons | April 27, 2009 at 08:41 PM
as the name suggests, Twitter is for twits. For those that lack the neurons. To actually follow mindless idiot rants of those who have nothing better to do? Has society become stupefied? Its reminds me sort of that movie with Luke Wilson Idiocracy (2006).
Posted by: IngridJ | April 27, 2009 at 09:59 PM
Bookfan: huh?
Twitter is simple. If any one user doesn't interest you then don't click the button that says "follow." No one is forcing anyone to follow Oprah, Kutcher, or anyone. Follow people you are interested. If noone interests you, then don't sign up.
Relax.
Posted by: bmmillss | April 28, 2009 at 08:41 PM