Museum of Social Media

The New York Times has banned the use of the word ‘tweet’ outside of ‘ornithological contexts.’ Apparently it’s not STANDARD ENGLISH. Editorial staff enjoyed a good old ‘LOL.’ Pundits indulged in a spot of ‘LMAO-ing.’ NYT linguistic curators were unavailable for comment: last seen scrambling for the keys to their Deloreans.

Categorisation snafu leads to mass outpouring from consultants. Social things are sexy. Lump sexy things together. Draw graphs (with logos please) and conclusions. Google should be worried about something. Not sure what.

So says the NYT. At least I think this was the gist of it. I was Tweeting and polishing my Facebook profile whilst reading (the first para). WHAT? WHO ARE YOU!?

So says Techcrunch. Next time they ought to try harder. Also, they should learn to lay off with the goddam apologies. Pussies. Just do it and f*ck it. C’mon Mark: show us you really don’t care.

Brilliant post from Dachis Group here. Do luxury brands need social media? Maybe, maybe not… These are the questions we should be asking right now.