Kevin Spacey tries to explain Twitter to David Letterman. No luck.
Kevin Spacey tried to explain Twitter to a technologically clueless David Letterman last night.
Without much success.
"Does it cost you money to be on Twitter?" Letterman asks.
"A penny for every letter. So expensive, Dave," Spacey jokes.
"Right now, I have over 800,000 people following me," Spacey goes on. "What would you like to say to 800,000 people because you will never get that many people watching tonight?"
Letterman is horrified that Spacey has to type his Tweets with his thumb and not very impressed about hearing "Hello" from so many people.
"I can go out here on 53rd and Broadway and get people to say hi to me," Letterman brags.
Is Letterman turning into the new Andy Rooney?
Does anyone else really understand Twitter?
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Tweeting is just one more way that self-centered individuals in our celebrity-obsessed culture can brag about how important they are.
Remember the old joke that every time a famous movie star sneezed, the world would hear about it? That "joke" has now come true with Twitter. Who really cares what any given person thinks every second of every day?
Good for Letterman for disabusing his viewership of its mania for all things Twitter.
Easy for Letterman to dismiss, with his venue to speak his mind to so many people nightly. Twitter offers a venue for many to speak who don't have the luxury of a TV show and an entire publicity team. Witness Iran as an excellent example--Twitter was the only voice they had after their election.
EM, that is a false assumption many people have about Twitter. Most regular Twitter users do not write about what they're eating for breakfast or what they just did in the bathroom.
Most of the people I know and communicate with on Twitter write about work, business and creative trends, hobbies and passions (like acting, radio drama, classic film, whatever), not about themselves.
Sure, there are self-centered people that you can follow, but no one's making you read their work, and they're no fun to have communications with. I don't follow any big-time celebrities, just a couple of actors/comedians like Greg Grunberg and Rainn Wilson, who write entertainingly.
Noirdame:
"Most of the people I know and communicate with on Twitter write about work, business and creative trends, hobbies and passions[...] not about themselves."
Not about themselves? Then,
whose work? Whose business? Whose hobbies? Whose passions? Who needs it.