BREAKING NEWS: TWITTER HAS DEVELOPED A BUTTON

Submitted by gene on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 01:50

Today, while browsing the science and technology section of Google news, I came upon a prominent news cluster:

Wow, what shocking news! Twitter has a share button now. Really though, I'm not even sure who doesn't have a share button, at this point. Hell, I could make some sort of Texarrakis share button if I really wanted to, but I won't because that would be pretty stupid.

Is this really news worth enough of the Telegraph and Associated Press? Has it got to the point where when a site as irritating and poorly designed as Twitter has some sort of center stage in technology news?

I don't know. This whole Facebook/Twitter thing seems out of control. In my previous installation of Texarrakis, barely anybody was even willing to become a member of Texarrakis, until I let them do it by connecting their Facebook account to their Texarrakis user account. What has happened? Gone are the glorious days of Geocities and Angelfire, the days where the internet was a bizarre series of interconnected terrible personal webpages connected through links and web rings. As terrible as that was, it was beautiful and chaotic and weird. Now everything is ordered and fed and aggregated and automated and uncomfortably standardized. It's not as interesting as it used to be. When all of a sudden the concept of Web 2.0 started whirling around the internet, I thought it was a joke, that the internet could never be tamed like that.

I was wrong, here it is.

Oh well. It's not like I'm immune to the mysterious forces behind web 2.0. In fact, as soon as I learned about this tweet button, I threw it up in the left hand column. Oh well.