6/12 Twouble with Twitter

Take a look at this parody of twitter on youtube.com called "Twouble with Twitter."   
Respond to the character's question as he enters the twittersphere:  "Who are they talking to?"  Do you wonder who your audience is when you post on twitter?  Do you feel differently about your audience in online writing environments?  Is your relationship to your online audience distinct?  Who do you imagine is reading your tweets, for example?
This animation clearly doubts the viability of twitter as a valuable tool?  What do you think?   What is the purpose of microblogging?


I found this parody on twitter extremely entertaining because although I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, I do have a twitter account, and I find myself making fun of every aspect of it; everyday. It's the most entertaining when you can actually relate to it and understand each and every stab they are making at this social networking website. I particularly got a kick out of the beginning when the man, who is clearly not a teenager or youth, is narrating every detail of his day right down to stating that he is now "sitting in a chair." I add that he's not a teenager or youth because it's an accepted thought in society that adults are supposed to be more mature and not consumed by this new social networking obsession. Also, when questioned by his co-worker, the twitter-fanatic starts to explain everything by making up verbs that all involve twitter, as if they have existed in the english language since it's conception. 
When the man starts to explain Twitter to his friend and they shoot up into the sky, as if twitter is a different world, it shows that these social networking sites aren't reality but people have begun to think they are. The human race is starting to base it's day around blogging and tweeting. They are obsessed with letting everyone else know what they are doing, as if living is not necessary or entertaining enough unless everyone else knows what's going on. When the man opposed to Twitter points this out and the fail whale appears, all havoc breaks loose and it is because the people have lost their ability to tweet. It is such a dead-on interpretation of how people truly feel when they can't blog, tweet, or post a status. They feel like their lives don't exist because other people don't know what they are doing. The sad thing is that it actually causes anxiety in a majority of the population when they can't log onto these sites right when they want to.
Who are tweeters talking to? I often ask this question, myself. When I tweet, I feel as if I'm talking to empty space. I really do not think of a particular person or group that it's targeted at. Tweeting always makes me feel pretentious but I still do it because I hopped on the bandwagon. I'm just as guilty as anyone else on that website. Although, I do have to say that I make my tweets more tasteful than some that I see. I often do not read half of the tweets of the people that I'm following because I'm not interested in every detail of their day or every cynical thing they think about society. 
I sincerely doubt the viability of twitter as a tool because the things that people tweet are useless information. I've never seen anything come up from the people that I follow that is actually helpful or increases my knowledge of anything important. I think that twitter and a numerous amount of other social networking sites are only harming the intelligence of the human race because it is shortening our thoughts and causing nonsensical slang that should not even be accepted as a form of communicating with each other.