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Twitter feeds you need: top tweeters reveal their three favourite follows
In just six years, Twitter has become the life-support system for those seeking news, humour, wisdom or a shot of esoteric web weirdness. Here, introduced by Lauren Laverne, 50 top tweeters reveal their three favourite follows. Plus, five experts on the Twitter accounts that define their fields.
The internet is like a talking bear: undoubtedly miraculous but best approached with caution. This has never been truer than in the case of the time-thief Twitter. In the six years since its inception, the site that lets us socialise in teaspoons has delighted, inspired, disgusted and distracted (to distraction) its 140 million users, often in the space of half an hour; and changed the world forever.
One thing everyone agrees on is that nobody agrees on the point of Twitter. It is derided as trivial (the name "Twitter" was chosen because it meant "a short burst of inconsequential information") as frequently as it is hailed as the engine that drove the Arab Spring. It's both a voyeuristic window into the gilded idiocy of celebrity and a spotlight on suffering that would otherwise go unrecorded. Twitter's fuel is extreme emotion – jealousy, rage, mawkish sentimentality and LOLZ. As such, it's a digital Molotov cocktail, constantly waiting for a spark. Just ask Samantha Brick, Ricky Gervais and Cat Bin Lady.
Thanks to Twitter, television – George Orwell's "cyclopean eye" – has become a compound one, a multi-screen myriad of information streams. Like many others, I traced the path of last summer's riots sitting in front of the rolling news with my laptop on my knee, following Guardian journalist Paul Lewis's tweets from the ground, DMing friends trapped in their houses and thinking "#PrayForRain". But whereas Orwell's viewers were pinned like a butterfly under television's unblinking glare, Twitter has restored a beneficial distance between us and it.
If Twitter is a virtual living room, the TV has been put back into it. Viewing is a group activity again, which certainly brightens up Question Time.
Graham Linehan once posted: "Celebrities who don't follow anyone! You have in your possession a magic mirror, and you're just using it as a mirror!" which made me laugh, then made me think: maybe Twitter's status as an enchanted looking glass isn't limited to famouses.
The mirror told the wicked queen the truth, even when it was unpalatable. Our online personalities may be an exaggeration of ourselves, but perhaps "In Ternet Veritas"? Regardless, Twitter demonstrates the ugly reality of problems like racism, as illustrated by the recent case of "Muamba tweeter" Liam Stacey. Hopefully the outrage that followed his remarks shows attitudes are moving in the right direction.
For me, Twitter is proof that human beings are endlessly adaptable and perpetually compelled to create societies wherever we go. Or wherever we don't – the absence of physical space seems no bar to our need to live together. As such, I can't help loving it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/06/twitter-top-feeds-celebrity-tweeters
One thing everyone agrees on is that nobody agrees on the point of Twitter. It is derided as trivial (the name "Twitter" was chosen because it meant "a short burst of inconsequential information") as frequently as it is hailed as the engine that drove the Arab Spring. It's both a voyeuristic window into the gilded idiocy of celebrity and a spotlight on suffering that would otherwise go unrecorded. Twitter's fuel is extreme emotion – jealousy, rage, mawkish sentimentality and LOLZ. As such, it's a digital Molotov cocktail, constantly waiting for a spark. Just ask Samantha Brick, Ricky Gervais and Cat Bin Lady.
Thanks to Twitter, television – George Orwell's "cyclopean eye" – has become a compound one, a multi-screen myriad of information streams. Like many others, I traced the path of last summer's riots sitting in front of the rolling news with my laptop on my knee, following Guardian journalist Paul Lewis's tweets from the ground, DMing friends trapped in their houses and thinking "#PrayForRain". But whereas Orwell's viewers were pinned like a butterfly under television's unblinking glare, Twitter has restored a beneficial distance between us and it.
If Twitter is a virtual living room, the TV has been put back into it. Viewing is a group activity again, which certainly brightens up Question Time.
Graham Linehan once posted: "Celebrities who don't follow anyone! You have in your possession a magic mirror, and you're just using it as a mirror!" which made me laugh, then made me think: maybe Twitter's status as an enchanted looking glass isn't limited to famouses.
The mirror told the wicked queen the truth, even when it was unpalatable. Our online personalities may be an exaggeration of ourselves, but perhaps "In Ternet Veritas"? Regardless, Twitter demonstrates the ugly reality of problems like racism, as illustrated by the recent case of "Muamba tweeter" Liam Stacey. Hopefully the outrage that followed his remarks shows attitudes are moving in the right direction.
For me, Twitter is proof that human beings are endlessly adaptable and perpetually compelled to create societies wherever we go. Or wherever we don't – the absence of physical space seems no bar to our need to live together. As such, I can't help loving it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/06/twitter-top-feeds-celebrity-tweeters
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