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911 Twitter and the kind of time warps allowed therein

September 14 2011 june

The Next Web has an interesting analysis on The Guardians well intentioned but ultimately badly received Twitter account chronicling the 911 attacks as if they were 10 years in the past 911tenyearsago The article itself has got a pretty good take on the entire affair but here are my own thoughts on it

For me the failure of that account is twofold Twitter for better or for worse is a medium that is for the here and the now From What are you doing to Whats happening the purpose of Twitter has always been present tense To have an account trapped in the past tweeting about events as if they were happening in the present is not just incongruous but also misleading and for those who harbour traumatic memories of that day very hurtful