Why I Will Always See Twitter as a Humorous Platform.

so let's get this out of the way first, Twitter is trash, it's the social media equivalent of a meme, a joke that went on to long. I've always seen it as a parody of comments on youtube. Picture it like this, a video gets uploaded to youtube, it's 14 minutes and 59 seconds long and all it is is just a white screen, no sound, no movement, nothing, just a 4:3 block of white. so this video sits there for a while and eventually someone picks up on it and posts a comment saying "what is this?", he decides to link it to his friends to see what they make of it, and they start posting comments asking the same question, until you've got 500 people asking "what the fuck is this?" so there's 500 people talking about nothing, 500 turns into 1000 cause they need more people in here to figure out what this video is for until eventually, one guy snaps and decides he can't be fucked to try and crack this code any more so he just posts "Good Will Hunting was a good film, I bet hugging Robin Williams would be like hugging a moulting wookie."

Thus Twitter was born.

When there's no presidents droning shepherds or anyone cutting themselves over a Christ figure in pop form, twitter just becomes this odd medley of humorous anecdotal beauty, the rest of the time it's people you kinda like posting shit you don't care about. the inclusion of crossing media with things like instagram and youtube has made it a whole lot worse, now you have to wade through incredible amounts of shit to even find a stupid tweet to rip the shit out of. and I say this fully aware that most everyone reading this came here through the link(s) I posted on twitter but I digress.

One of the main reason why I think Twitter is a humorous platform is that it's pretty much replaced the texted joke, the kind of jokes that would just appear as if my magic on your phone the second someone remotely famous died. Before if you got one of those jokes you'd read it and if you found it funny you'd send it to the people you'd feel would most appreciate it. (or to your mom to disappoint her, which I did many a time) Now you have Twitter which is almost like a texting subscription service, the idea that if a joke about jimmy savile appears on your feed you can retweet it without any fear of reprisal because the people who are reading that tweet through your retweet should have expected you to find something like that funny.

I think the reason anyone follows anyone on twitter is they have at some point done something funny, even to the point of movie stars, look at Samuel L. Jackson, fact is if all you are doing is quoting song lyrics the only reason anyone is following you is because they enjoy laughing at the type of music you like.

That or they're hoping you link an instagram picture of your tits.