Twitter Creator On Iran: 'I Never Intended For Twitter To Be Useful'

[meegbear]

Creator Jack Dorsey was shocked and saddened this week after learning that his social networking device, Twitter, was being used to disseminate pertinent and timely information during the recent civil unrest in Iran. "Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them," said a visibly confused Dorsey, claiming that Twitter is at its most powerful when it makes an already attention-starved populace even more needy for constant affirmation. "When I heard how Iranians were using my beloved creation for their own means—such as organizing a political movement and informing the outside world of the actions of a repressive regime—I couldn't believe they'd ruined something so beautiful, simple, and absolutely pointless." Dorsey said he is already working on a new website that will be so mind-numbingly useless that Iranians will not even be able to figure out how to operate it.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/twitter_creator_on_iran_i?utm_source=a-section

[rosesaylavee]

1. Now that's good...

I read the first couple sentences before I glanced down to see the link. Really have thought of Twitter that way until Iran exploded last week.

[baldguy]

2. Again The Onion tries for irony, and accidentally tells the truth.

[notesdev]

3. A sign of the times

where reality puts satire out of business


time to go smoke some "green shoots"

[azurnoir]

4. well for anyone disillusioned about twitter

there's still facebook

[Ezlivin]

5. Why did he use more than 140 characters?

The key to Twitter is abbreviations and austere brevity, FYI.

[Wednesdays]

6. Yeah, and something along these lines:

"Twttr wz intndd 2 b a wy 4 vcnt, slf-absrbd egotsts 2 shar thr mst bnl & idiotc thghts w/ne1 pthtc enuf 2 rd thm"

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Twitter is safe text for those who are on the receiving end.

[progressoid]

8. How do you say "twitter" in Persian?

:shrug: