Maureen Dowd doesn’t like Twitter and was essentially acting like a jerk to the guys who invented Twitter in a Q and A. She asks this question and the comeback is 140 characters or less and perfect:
Dowd: Twitter seems like telegrams without the news. We now know that on the president’s trip to Trinidad, ABC News’s Jake Tapper’s shower was spewing brown water. Is there any thought that doesn’t need to be published?
BIZ STONE: The one I’m thinking right now.
Can’t do better than that.
April 23, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Oh, how I love redheads. MoDo would be my dream girl if it weren’t for the hateful secularism and thoughtlessness. Oh, and my wife.
April 23, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I just recently came to the conclusions that Twitter is completely useless, but that is still a great comeback.
April 23, 2009 at 3:34 pm
The great thing about Twitter is that if you don’t care about it, you don’t sign up. If Ms. Dowd doesn’t like it, she doesn’t have to read it. She could join the long list of reporters who ignore big stories because they don’t suit their personal agendas.
April 24, 2009 at 3:55 am
I’m STILL trying to figure out what Twitter is useful for… much prefer Facebook….
Hey, I think I’ll go start a CMR Fan Page, eh????
April 24, 2009 at 4:05 am
I get Twitter (to some extent), but mostly I just hate it.
I can see the value of getting blow by blow tweets/updates from someone on the scene during a disaster or crisis of some sort (help! we just had an earthquake and I’m trapped under something heavy! etc.)
But mostly Twitter is just more work for everyone…especially for writers who feel compelled to add Tweets to their to-do list (obviously MoDo is one of them) along with blogging and other round-the-clock communication.
It’s also more work for the “followers” (gotta keep up with Ashton Kutcher’s tweets! Might miss something).
Enough already! There’s only so much time in the day.