Kira Disapproves

When I was Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical: The Musical (yes, such a thing exists. No, I will not show you pictures of me in feathers.) I had to sing a song about how “My eyes are too small. I have very large feet. And I’m not very proud of my pitiful ‘tweet!’”

That’s the only tweet-ing I’ve ever done. (Yes, this was the best segue I could think of.) But I know lots of you Twitter. My friend and grad school classmate Elizabeth Daley has an article about Twitter in USA Today. It’s about celebrity “Tweeters” and the crazy things they share. I think she makes a really nice point about the ways in which celebrities who tweet seem to be acting out some weird stuff. Also, this definitely falls into the category of writing that doesn’t jump to the “gee, whiz, technology” position that lots of writers take on things like Twitter and Facebook.

Read it!

My links are still wonky, but you can just do some old fashioned cut and paste and get it here: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/05/tech2-celebrity-tweeters-expose-themselves-for-what-they-are.html#more

Come on. You can spare the time to cut and paste. Especially if I’ve ever made you anything out of construction paper.

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