Twitter “Twitter, in its imposed brevity, seems to affirm the aphorism’s original meaning: be intelligently succinct” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 August 2019 What of Twitter? “Brevity is the soul of wit,” Shakespeare’s Polonius says, issuing the...
Internet, Semantics, Social Media “Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild slights by putting an absurd amount of energy into plotting meaningless reprisals” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 April 2018 Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild...
Social Media, Twitter “The value of sweating the small stuff, it turns out, depends quite a lot on how much power you have to affect the big stuff” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 March 2018 It would be easy to assume, surveying the national scene, that pettiness is universally...
Business, Entertainment, Internet, Social Media “Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2018 The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define,...
Facebook, Social Media, Twitter “Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 September 2017 Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms: as...
Social Media, Twitter “Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 August 2016 Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces....
Politics in America, Twitter “Clinton has…assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames people for their garbage posts…. Trump plays the troll” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 July 2016 Clinton has, herself, assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames...
Beer, Social Media “The introduction and rapid growth of social media certainly sent shocks to beer media and establishments…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 September 2015 The introduction and rapid growth of social media certainly sent shocks to beer media...
Advertising, Social Media, Twitter “Sponsored tweets aren’t about replacing traditional ads, but about ‘creating a kind of surround-sound on different platforms'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 April 2015 Sponsored tweets aren’t about replacing traditional ads, but about “creating a kind of surround-sound...
Twitter “Twitter is a fast machine that almost begs for misunderstanding and misconstrual…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 December 2014 Twitter is a fast machine that almost begs for misunderstanding and misconstrual—deliberate misreading is...