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Twitter: LSD for Our Time

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 20, 2009 4:37 PM CDT
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(Newser) – The parallels between Twitter and LSD are just too trippy for blogger Phil Baumann to ignore. “What was once a side project, a sort of laboratory experiment,” he writes, “has now seeped into the public domain and everyday more and more people are tripping tweeting.” Highlights from his top 25 ways that Twitter resembles LSD:

  • Time distortion: “LSD alters users’ perceptions of time. What seems like a minute can actually be hours. You can spend a whole day on Twitter thinking you only spent 20 minutes tweeting, only to find out the whole day’s gone.”
  • Sense of universal connection: “Whether on LSD or Twitter, users probably follow people who they otherwise would never meet, let alone ‘follow.’”
  • Celebrity users: LSD: Cary Grant, Peter Fonda, Timothy Leary, Paul McCartney; Twitter: Shaq, Ashton, Britney, Oprah.
For more striking similarities, click the link below.

Twitter is the LSD of our age, Phil Baumann writes.
Twitter is the LSD of our age, Phil Baumann writes.   (Creative Commons)
Trip or Tweet?
Trip or Tweet?   (Creative Commons)
Baumann's Twitter feed.
Baumann's Twitter feed.   (Twitter)
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NxBigmouthery
Apr 21, 2009 11:00 AM CDT
I've been silly enough to fritter away hours on various websites, this one included. But I can't see how anyone could devote any more than a few minutes at a time to Twitter.
Mad
Apr 21, 2009 4:10 AM CDT
Yes, Ioptout, acid is beautiful
atris999
Apr 20, 2009 11:52 AM CDT
This is a horrible analogy. A better comparison would be Gonzo journalism...

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