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The Chattering Classes are now the Twittering Classes
- wallflower 17y ago> This showed that some 80 percent of Twitter accounts have fewer than 10 follower I think this distribution is a sign that more normal (mainstream) people are joining Twitter. From a brief scan of the public trend line, it looks like more people are just talking about their life with their friends than trying too hard to tweet(*) something of significance. Why is it on Twitter that some celebrities try to come across as normal people and some normal people (in the guise of social media experts) try to come across as experts/gurus? http://tweetingtoohard.com http://tweetingtoohard.com
- Tichy 17y agoFrom wikipedia: "As such, the notion of 'chattering classes' can be seen as an antonym to the older idea of an unrepresented Silent Majority" Well anybody can chime in on Twitter, so no excuses for being unrepresented.
- anigbrowl 17y agoA particularly amusing example ripped from today's headlines...your tax dollars at work: "Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us 'time to deliver' on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND." More at: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/07/irked_grassley_tweets_vacation.html?wprss=44 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/07/irked_grassle... /background: http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0309/Grassley_the_Twitterer.html http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0309/Grassley_th...