Twitter is the Perfect Medium – For Haiku
Twitter is ideal for haiku.
Think about it. They both encourage brevity – twitter in 140 characters, haiku in 17 syllables. They both eschew capital letters and punctuation. Most importantly, they both describe the present. Twitter asks us, “What are you doing?” Haiku asks us, “What do you see?”
In doing so, haiku provides an opportunity to transcend the banal status updates that permeate the twittersphere with something sublime. Good haiku describes the visual, but conveys the intangible, hopefully with wit, elegance, or surprise. It gives the poster a reason to contemplate and synthesize before microblogging. It offers the follower ten seconds of Zen in a tech-saturated day.
For example, on Wednesday I could have tweeted, happy tax day! I'm in Texas for a business meeting and we saw a “tea party” downtown. However, I think it was more enlightening for all involved when I tweeted in haiku:
Slumdog Millionaire Approach to Twitter
A recent TechCrunch post stating Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN (Ted Turner) to a race to reach one million Twitter followers got me thinking of Twitter in terms of independent and blockbuster movies. It raises the question, “Do you approach Twitter as an actor in a blockbuster movie or an independent movie?”
The Kutcher challenge more than likely resonates with the blockbusters like Hannah Montana that want to have a huge opening weekend and get as many followers as possible. Ashton will get bragging rights for having a million followers; however how many followers does he really have a connection? How many are following just for the novelty and what happens when the novelty wears off?
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