P. Diddy, Please Leave Twitter Alone…
DIGITAL NEWS By Gotty™ on March 16, 2009 at 11:16 am
Thank you Diddy, for protecting me from myself.
Last week, I forced myself to read the article “Is Diddy’s Twitter Making Kanye’s Blog Irrelevant?”, only to be hit this morning with another article, “P Twitty? Diddy Harnesses Twitter to ‘Take the Power Back’,” marking the brilliance of Diddy climbing aboard the Twitter-train. I find both articles borderline ludicrous.
First off, make no mistake, I doubt many actually believed that was Kanye updating his blog in the first place. Also, Kanye’s ghostwriter does posts about furniture & art that don’t exactly jibe with the interests or lifestyles of most. Relevancy was slim, therefore Kanye’s online popularity as a blogger seems to have fizzled. Chalk it up to carving a niche only populated by a minority, one that most likely has enough money to create their own trends offline without Kanye’s guidance.
Diddy is only doing what’s always made Diddy famous: Taking something already powerful & embraced (rap anyone?) by people & attaching himself to it in order to maintain relevancy (See: throwing himself into the Chrihanna mix). As far as his workings with the web goes, he’s generally behind the curve as was the case with his Youtube channel. You have to give general media & entertainers full credit for not lagging so far behind regarding Twitter, as they did with blogs, MySpace & Facebook. Behind, but leading the pack considering that Sean has more than 135,743 followers. Again though, relevancy comes into play. Considering the blurbs I’ve read & received, do I really want to read about Diddy Twittering tantric sex? About taking a bubble bath? I won’t delve too far off track but, by the looks of things, I think Diddy’s fishing for…enh, I’ll stop.
As overwhelmingly entertaining as it may be, I’ve managed to avoid the Twitter bug. Twitter is the even-faster-moving equivalent of those who used to really update their MySpace mood status in between searching for new layouts. And I won’t delve deAt this point, I have enough online time-consuming activities. With this thing of ours, eBay & RSS feeds, I have no other time online & god forbid I added Twitter to the BB. Adding something else to that mix, especially in the vein of Twitter, which seems to be so driven by the moment, would only be a recipe for disaster.
But we do have a site feed for Twitter…I mean, if you’re into that kind of thing & want to follow us.
Hey, we were there before Diddy & the media called it “cool.” While I may be slightly opposed to fooling with it, I know the good value in things when I see it.
Is Diddy’s Twitter Making Kanye’s Blog Irrelevant? [NY Mag]
P Twitty? Diddy Harnesses Twitter to “Take the Power Back” [Broadband]
Posted in DIGITAL NEWS, Everything Else, SMOKE BREAK — Tags: Blogging, Facebook, Kanye West, P. Diddy, Twitter
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Diddy Make Music
Man, he’s the king of most annoying twits of all time.
Diddy Make Music
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i don’t know. Maybe he should stay on Twitter now that you put it like that.
Twitter is dope, quit hatin’!!! lol. I love Twitter (no techno), it keeps me up to date with TSS and the other blogs/sites that I frequent regularly. It’s cool to have on your mobile when you’re on the move a lot.
^ That’s what Google Reader is for.
Twitter is for telling the world how you feel, and having people eve’s drop on your convos. Blogs and sites just took advantage of it.
Told ya!
I hope one day, while Puffy is screaming “Let’s go people!”, a vortex opens up to another dimension….and he finally goes wherever the fuck he wanted to, with all those who believe in him.
I am more upset with the fact P Twitty blocks G-dep and Craig Mack from following him. LOL!!!
@ DS: Fuck Google Reader!!! It ain’t “cool” enough!!! lol. Nah man, I’ve never used that shit and never will. Plus, there are a ton of Twitter apps for the iPhone that are super-fresh. TWITTER RULES! (for now anyway)
Actually Ye does update his blog himself… see the article on Ye in the current issue of Details…
The funniest thing just happened to me at work, I was waiting for the elevator. When the elevator reached the floor I was on I walked in. There was a older white man already in the elevator. I said to him good morning and proceed to press the floor I wanted to go to. He starts to pace back and forth and as the doors were closing, he jumps out the elevator. Literally jumps and twist sideways so not to get caught inbetween the doors. I look to see what floors were pressed. The only floors pressed were the 27th(the floor I was going to) and the 1st floor. We were on 30. LOL!!!!
Until I read like Kanye’s updated that site seven times in seven days, i ain’t buying.
Carl Thomas & Loon are part of Diddy’s team…of ghost-Twitterers
LOL @Teef
@500K Flea:
type “lol” once more and i will shit in your mouth.
^ Diddy? Is that you?
That Dick is sure living up to his namesake.
@ Dick: Put your name in your mouth fuckboy.
ps: LOL. Pussy ‘ole bwoy.
Easy, easy , my kids smoke here
Damn Flea you got yourself some net beef. lol!!!
Drama?
*grabs popcorn and sits down*
Quoteth Gin Rummy
“Its all Just Nigga-technology anyway”
@ Bigga: Beef? This bitchboy is a burger, bring me some steak.
Not even a real burger, he on some Orstrich meat shit. He needs the Miller Good Life. LOL!!!
All I need is facebook, youtube, deviantart and the hiphop blogs and I’m straight.
http://www.rapradar.com/true-story/kanyes-bloggin-secrets.html
First New York Magazine disses his blog and then they interview Kanye West about it. What are they a rap magazine? Ha! Anyway ‘Ye admitted he does have two helpers at the University but all content needs to meet his approval.
“It might [blog for] two hours in a day, it might be fifteen minutes in a day. I have two people that I hired and I tell them exactly what I want — it’s just like how a designer would work. I tell them, you know, Surface magazine, Wallpaper, Architectural Digest, Hypebeast, Bossip — go to these different blogs and keep on pulling information. And then they send it to me, and I get like 80 e-mails, and I have to check and go through them. And sometimes I’ll have my own stuff where I’ll just be in a cool place, like if I had my camera right now, I’d like photograph this stuff and go home and be really excited to blog it. You know, cause I’m in cool places all the time. So it’s a great outlet, and I’m glad so many people are reacting to it. And it’s another opportunity to present design and my opinion of the world and what I think is cool.”
I hope one day, while Puffy is screaming “Let’s go people!”, a vortex opens up to another dimension….and he finally goes wherever the fuck he wanted to, with all those who believe in him.
AMEN! this thread is too jokes! real talk, im unfollowing Diddy, TODAY!
For someone who is a student of marketing. Both Kanye and Diddy are fantastic marketers. I like Rappers giving their time to do things like that. It gives them an actual voice (Media Free) to the people. Twitter is a great tool in that way
http://www.smissbeatzpresents.com/
How Can I change my Twitter profile pic?
The twitter app ate up all my other space. And once I found out DM’s are pubilc, it was a wrap. Sorry to my 17 followers.
Plus Amanda Diva never writes back anymore.