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Of the chief complaints of those who fail to see the usefulness of the Twitter, the most frequently noted has to do with the amount of self important updates one has to sift through to find anything of meaning in their daily stream. We can’t totally disagree, when constantly updated minutia comes into play, uselessness is bound to rear its ugly head. Unfortunately, if you’re amongst the many who has ever felt the need to pat yourself on the back via the popular micro-blogging format, you now run the risk of being pegged as someone who may be Tweeting Too Hard. The website of the same name, operates more or less in the same vein as Texts from Last Night, taking the best of the worst in the Twittersphere and putting it on display for an often times maddeningly hilarious read. A brief scan through the site is glowing proof that some things are better left unsaid…or untwote.

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It’s not often you find yourself at a loss for 140 characters on Twitter, but when’s the last time you said something truly unique that didn’t have to do with how spicy your lunch burrito was? Twitter Magnets, the internet incarnation of those random words on your fridge, allows you to craft an entirely distinct arrangement of thoughts for your next status update, provided you’re creative enough to fashion something meaningful out of the words you’ve been given. Whether you form a beautiful haiku or just randomly string some words together to make your friends think you’ve been drinking, it’s makes for an enjoyable new way to answer the question, “What are you doing?”

There are a couple reasons why the name Peter Gregson should be stuck on your mind. First and foremost he is the brilliant classical cellist that we’ve raved about a number of times. Second, he is reinventing the way audiences interact with performers. Remember when he set up a Twitter wall concert? This time he’s taking his relationship with Twitter to the next level — as in straight to their home base. Peter will preform a live microconcert from Twitter HQ in San Fransisco. This isn’t just a treat for the employees, it’s also being broadcast in HD for all of us. Even the program notes are 140 characters.

Prelude Suite#1 (Bach), Spiegel im Spiegel (Part), Appalachian Waltz (O’Connor), Corpus Christi Carol (Britten), Song of the Birds (Beamish)

The show begins at 1:30 p.m. PST from Peter’s site or here. It will be available for HD streaming on demand if you miss it. Follow @petergregson or @coffeeloop for any updates. Otherwise, sit back and enjoy the midday musical stream from one of the best cello performers we know.

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Hoards of people are currently using Twitter to say nothing, so it isn’t surprising there are more than a few who are anti-tweet. One of my favorite visual Twitter kiss-offs comes from Josh Holland via JoyEngine. Josh “cannot wait until Twitter goes the way of the slap bracelet and they’re talking about it on VH1’s I Love the 2000s.” (I’d say, “oh snap!” if I didn’t think that would get me on VH1 too.) If you share the sentiment, you can download the graphic above. Meanwhile Cypher13, aka the JoyEngine crew, set up an experimental micro-site for their own micro-blogging (in macro-font). But, there are some good uses for the technology. Like Shaq.

Editors Note: I don’t dislike twitter– in fact, I find it to be quite a powerful tool. You just need to fine tune it to hear the signal, not the noise. And I definitely don’t think it will go the way of the slap bracelet, we just thought it was a funny post. From time to time we like to open up a bit of a debate here, jump in and enjoy.





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