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To close out the week, thought I’d post this dead-on animated sketch about Twitter from Current TV. It’s caught on this week, to say the least. When I first streamed it on YouTube on Monday, it had about 350,000 views. Now it’s just under a million. Best line: “It seems like Twittering is just randomly bragging about your unexceptional life.” Yeah.

You might think that, after watching this, people would slack off on their Twitter habits out of sheer embarrassment, but if the number of times I saw the FAIL Whale this week is any indication, it actually had the opposite effect, particularly on me.

Speaking of which, don’t forget to follow this blog at http://twitter.com/bnetmedia. Have a good weekend.

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Catharine P. Taylor has been covering digital media and advertising for almost 15 years and is a frequent speaker at conferences about media and advertising. She posts daily to BNET Media, writes the weekly Social Media Insider column for Mediapost and also has her own advertising blog, Adverganza.com. Follow her on Twitter or subscribe to the BNET Media Twitter feed.

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isoughtajam@...

03/27/09 | Report as spam

RE: Twitter, or

Good catch on this video. Unfortunately the
unimaginative are doomed to remain so no matter
the medium.

An interesting summary post of Twitter as a
protocol rather than a destination:
http://www.thinksketchdesign.com/2009/02/25/des
ign/algorithm-design/from-microblog-to-network-
protocol-how-twitter-will-redefine-the-internet
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Rob Dodds

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RE: Twitter, or

Exactly...