John Mayer Dumps Twitter for Tumblr. Now Twitter Knows How Jessica Simpson Feels.
John Mayer used to be one of the most Twitter-obsessed celebrities out there…but then, something happened to sour him on the whole Twitter experience – maybe the tidal wave of negativity that bore down on him after using the n-word in an interview? – and now he is bad-mouthing the popular social networking platform all over the media. “Within the last couple weeks, every night I think about canceling my Twitter account because I think it’s pretty much done,” Mayer said in yet another controversial interview. “I just think Twitter as a form of communication, I think it’s over to be honest with you.” About five seconds after this quote began circulating, people – Twitter fans mostly – started ragging on Mayer and branding him as a traitor. Just as he did when the heat came down from the n-word flap, Mayer quickly went into damage-control mode, posting a link on Twitter to a statement posted on his Tumblr page:
Last week in Los Angeles I participated in a live Q&A as part of an ASCAP expo on songwriting. When the topic of Twitter came up, I explained my waning interest in it being part of my daily life. By no means do I think it’s over as a medium altogether, but I do think that the days of “Twitter: The Breakthrough” have passed, as has been and will continue to be the case for every online social network. It’s reached it’s cruising altitude, so to speak. Patterns and templates are emerging. The Twitter-bred syntax isn’t really doing it for me anymore.
And call me crazy, but I don’t think it’s the healthiest thing in the world to read scads of mentions/@replies and effectively open the floodgate of other people’s approval/disapproval. Finding out in 140 characters what a stranger has to say about you is like a mathematical equation without an established value of ‘x’. Who are you, stranger? What do you stand for? What do you like, and if it’s not me, then what does move you? What DO you look up to? Once I find that out, I’ll know how disappointed I should be.
This is where Tumblr comes in. It’s the future of social networking if your image of the future features intelligent discourse. I love reading other Tumblr users replies, because they’re thoughtful by virtue of the fact that if they’re not, they’ll bring the intellectual property value of their own blog down, and that’s a commodity on Tumblr.
This post is an experiment in itself. If you want to communicate me, open a Tumblr account, follow me, repost my blog and then add to it. I’ll follow you back. Agree or disagree, lionize or demonize, but for God’s sake, be original. You’ll have all the room in the world to do it now.
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