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September 11, 2015
If you spend all day listening to blockheads on Facebook or Twitter, you’re likely to get caught up in whatever the other blockheads are doing.
The so-called Arab Spring is a good example.The claim at the time is it was driven by social media. How did that turn out? Egypt had a nice blood bath with a brief period of control by Muslim lunatics. The same thing played out across the Maghreb. One could argue that the unrest in the Maghreb is in some small part responsible for the mass invasion of Europe from the Near East. It turns out that a million nitwits can be wrong.... It’s when the stupid become confident that things can get out of hand. Mass Stupidity | The Z Blog
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at September 11, 2015 3:53 PM
I was at the pub today and I watched some football.
I noticed that one game was between the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Redskins.
I recall the Twitter-storm last year that the Washington Redskins had to surrender that name "or else" something. I now note that the Washington Redskins still play football and that the Twitter-storm has gone elsewhere.
The Twitter-storm is worth as much effort as it takes to thumb-out a comment - no more, no less.
Here endeth the lesson on the value of Twitter.
Posted by: Mikey at September 13, 2015 2:53 PM