{"id":30514,"date":"2018-06-25T19:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30514"},"modified":"2018-06-25T19:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:52:50","slug":"twitter-emerges-as-no-1-purveyor-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30514","title":{"rendered":"Twitter emerges as No. 1 purveyor of … everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Am I the only American who has become\u00a0 astonished, amazed and somewhat aghast<\/em> at how Twitter has become the No. 1 purveyor of public policy?<\/p>\n

Or, for that matter, damn near everything else?<\/p>\n

Probably not.<\/p>\n

I don’t know precisely when it achieved its preeminence. I have o believe it began with the presidency of Donald John Trump Sr.<\/p>\n

He began using Twitter to make pronouncements, to hurl insults, to foment his many lies. Then he got elected. He has continued to tweet these messages at a dizzying pace — even though he promised (if that’s the correct verb) to curtail his tweet storms once he took the presidential oath.<\/p>\n

A day doesn’t go by now where I don’t read something on my various news outlets about this or that public official tweeting<\/em> some statement. They respond to others’ statements — which also are tweeted; they make grand pronouncements of their own; they make snarky comments; they tell jokes.<\/p>\n

Oh, but them we hear from entertainment celebrities and literary giants, also via Twitter. They all have thoughts — deep or shallow — to share with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

And, yes … I use Twitter as a platform to share musings from High Plains Blogger. I am not alone in that regard, either. Other bloggers seek to increase their audience by distributing their pearls of wisdom via Twitter. Good for them! We’re a social media community.<\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose Twitter will retain its top ranking as a social media purveyor until something else comes along. I don’t know what that might be; I doubt you know what will emerge.<\/p>\n

I do have difficulty using the verb “tweet,” however, to describe this method of communicating. The very sound of the word just kind of grates on me. I hear the word “tweet” and I think immediately of the Looney Tunes cartoon character Tweetie Bird<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Wherever he is, my guess is that the late Mel Blanc — Tweetie Bird’s voice — is laughing out loud.<\/p>\n

I trust you get my drift.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, off we go, tweeting every single thought — big or small, profound or trivial — that pops into our noggin.<\/p>\n\n

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