Twitter’s been a very cool thing for sports bloggers and fans who like to discuss games in real-time. Additionally, it’s been a nice feature for social media mavens, to say the least. And of course, PR people are all abuzz about what Twitter can do for your “brand.”
But you know when it’s become obvious that Twitter has gone to far? When various gangs in New York City are using it to talk shit to rivals.
“It’s another tool, just like old phone records,” said one police officer. “We can go through them [tweets] to track these guys.”
Many of the gang messages can be found through a simple Twitter search for phrases such as OYG, the Original Young Gangsters.
One tweet, from a girl with the username LickSumIishaHun, read: “I knoe b*tches from oyg that would dead mob yah sh*t in harlem”. Police say it was aimed at drawing out a rival for a fight.
Now, far be it from me to insult the gang-people for using Twitter; certainly I don’t feel like getting shot by dawgs over the internets.
But I think it is time to insult Twitter: Twitter, my friend, you have arrived. You have jumped the shark. You no longer have any remotely tiny twinge of hipness, because you graduated from nerds directly to celebrities, straight up to spammy porn trolls and then into the crime world. And that’s how the world works: nerds–>celebrity –> pornspam –> criminals. And once that happens, well, it’s all over. Or something.
