Tweets Turn To Growls As The Big Dog Enters Twitter Pack
GRRRRRLLLL!
Tweets Turn To Snarls As The Big Dog O Enters Twitter Pack
FORGET THE TWEET, TWEET, TWEETS OF little blue birdies chirping on Twitter.
Yesterday there was a lot of woof, woof, woofing because the big dog -- Oprah -- had signed on, and with her her lapdog Gayle only moments behind.
And like any time the alpha dog enters a pack, hairs bristled, lips curled and the underdogs went belly-up. You didn't have to read far to figure out who fell into which category.
"Apparently #oprah is going to start twittering tomorrow," raistlinsghost tweeted. "It just may be over when this fat lady sings."
"I just soiled myself learning that the first Oprah tweet will be heard around the world Fri.…" wrote mulls, who made it a point to say his words were dripping with sarcasm.
Yes it's countdown to 9 a.m. Central, when the Cougar catcher Ashton Kutcher, a.k.a Aplusk on Twitter, gives personal tweet lessons to Ms. Winfrey on the social network darling of the minute.
The Punk'd producer was racing all this week against CNNBRK to see which who could reach one million followers first on Twitter.
Of course, Oprah stole Ashton's bark because he's just a high-strung pedigree compared to her German Shepherd. And so his shenanigans apparently led her to book a show on the topic.
Even Mr. Bad Boy himself, Sean Combs, was having to fight for attention. "ATTENTION ATTENTION!!," iamdiddy wrote. "Click to buy your new NO BITCHASSNESS tshirts in all flavors!!!"
No word on whether "Bitchassness" was a shrouded reference to O.
Yes, there was backlash against Oprah invading Twitterland, and many fretted that the blue whale would fail mightily, as it has under lesser weight.
"I think we should all try our best to hack and/or destroy Oprah's Twitter account," wrote JaredOngi. "Let's do it for freedom…for sanity…for the LULZ."
"Oprah and Ashton Will Destroy Twitter,"’ wrote a columnist on PCMagazine.com who predicts that the celebrifying of Twitter will turn it into a "hollow" pointless pastime. (Unlike it now?)
One peeved Twitterer went so far as to open an OprahFail account, and was seeking to sow destruction of her bandwagon. "You disapprove of our plan to cleanse Twitter of the rabble?," wrote the diabolocal schemer. "Join the party. It won't hurt too bad! "
Other Tweeters took a more amused approach.
"The big rumor I'm hearing is that Oprah is giving away a free car to all her followers who can also prove they voted for Obama (GM only)," joshed davejohnston. And less ambitiously, bhaggs wrote, "Tomorrow on Oprah: 'You're all getting TWITTER accounts' "
Someone named pfunn slyly suggested, "You know, if everyone signs off of Twitter tomorrow when Oprah tapes her show, she'll think Ashton was hallucinating."
And wouldn't that be sly -- except that Twitter disabled the unfollow function -- meaning that once Ashton told you to jump off that bridge there was no climbing back up to sanity.
Used to be "social media experts" ruled Twitter's terrain, and there was much evidence yesterday that since the advent of celebrity tweets, the techies were starting to seem like oldtimers who had walked a mile to school.
"I am not taking anything away from Oprah, but she's got it now. I'm on the look for what's next," wrote Robert "Scobleizer" Scoble, considered a social media powerhouse before last week but looking yesterday more like a has-been. He also wrote, "To me entrepreneurs are sexier than @oprah and more worthy of attention."
And that will be the difference between Twitter "before" and "after" Oprah.
Tags: Oprah
Comments
glad to have her on board.
that should add several million members to the rolls.
i'm still not sure i get the point of twitter, but i'm doing it anyway.
Posted by: Dave Cullen | April 18, 2009 11:36 PM
I don't twitter. I twitch.
Posted by: theglasscharacter | April 18, 2009 11:35 PM
As usual, the pop culture is going over the top. I tweet, but I see it for what it is--a meaningless pastime. People are taking this thing much, much too seriously.
And why shouldn't Oprah be able to take advantage of what everyone else in the world can? We're rapidly becoming socioeconomic bigots. Why can we just live our own lives, and leave other people alone to live theirs? Ok, so I'm not as rich and famous as Oprah--is that her fault?
Posted by: Wattree | April 18, 2009 11:34 PM
What does Twitter mean if Ashton gets Oprah on? What does it mean that David Gregory is so excited we now know which mornings he eats bagels? What does it mean that an attache to the Israeli consulate can "hold" a press conference on Twitter to "discuss" (in , what, 440 characters?) the Gaza incursion a few months back and that same attache can then Tweet about his social life (that both things are equally deserving of a Tweet or that both things require the same amount of consideration?) and what does it mean that celebrities hire someone to Tweet their supposedly profound thoughts? Maybe I'm as crabby as I worry I'm becoming but really, it went from being a fun party to being at a party where you can't even get to the bar because it's so crowded in less than a nanosecond. Humph, I'm going back under my earpods...
Posted by: 1WomansVu | April 18, 2009 11:33 PM
I don't have a personal assistant who can Twitter for me.
Posted by: old new lefty | April 18, 2009 11:32 PM
In the words of @SteveDahlShow over on Twitter;
Oprah's now on Twitter. I feel a shark in these waters. Get ready to jump!!!
Posted by: PergyFlage | April 18, 2009 11:31 PM
All this talk about Twitter just makes me crazy. It's everywhere all the time. I think between Facebook, Blackberrys, Email, etc etc we're all hooked up enough and Twitter is just one more self-indulgent way to make us over plugged in. ACK!!!
Posted by: WalkAwayHappy | April 18, 2009 11:30 PM
Ashton smashton, oprah poperah, bla, bla, bla, tweet, tweet, tweet, who cares about those two?
Smashton is riding on the coattails of has been dummy moore.
Posted by: Alitoldmeimthegreatest | April 18, 2009 11:29 PM
I just don't get all this Twitter talk
Here I am, There I go, This I do, That I did
I need to pee, My plane is late, I stepped in gum
I love my dog, I think I'll hum
I'm not that important
Do you care? It's all so dumb!
So this I say -
I have decided
I shall not tweet upon the Twitter
I shall not be a Twitterpaitter!
Posted by: WalkAwayHappy | April 18, 2009 11:27 PM
I twitter...Crabby do you? I will look for you.
Well, at least we will not where to buy 600 dollar 1000 thread sheets and cashmere pajamas. (snark)
Posted by: Stellaa | April 18, 2009 11:26 PM
I'm so glad I don't twitter. It just sounds like a supreme time waster, and I'm already inundated with time wasting skills.
Posted by: odetteroulette | April 18, 2009 11:25 PM
As long as Eddie Izzard still updates, I'm good. Her Royal Oprahness, not so much.
Posted by: teendoc | April 18, 2009 11:23 PM
LOL crabby, I'm sorry but , why should we care about this?
Posted by: Kellylark | April 18, 2009 11:22 PM
When Oprah gets into these things, she puts her entire soul and being into them -- for a couple of days. Then she's on to the next thing. A week from now, her Twitter account will be used primarily for daily, staff-written show promos. Three months from now, it will be as idle as her MySpace page.
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