Drunk Tweeting, regret in 140 characters or less
Technology has vastly improved the efficiency of our own stupidity. Used to be that we were cautioned not to drink and dial. Regret-ville was never much further away than a ruined nights sleep, anyway. And besides, who among us really ever heeded those warnings. Then it all evolved to the drunken text where today it has proudly morphed to the drunken Tweet. It feels like we have finally arrived.
The above graph is available to us as a result of some seriously priceless research. It comes from Jeff Clark who has spent time charting a little something called word density on Twitter. This was published in his blog Neoformix. He has a thing called time of day correlations where he chooses a word of interest, in our case drunk, and then shows two words with a positive correlation and two words with a negative correlation. All of this managed and tied together by a specific time of day. The end line graphs are incredible and pretty much tell the tale. Things seem to start turning weird around mid-night. Who knew?
It’s nice that we have a systematic evaluation of drunk tweeting to study but the personal, human toll is where we find the laughs. Some of them are hilarious, mostly because they are happening to other people. There are a few so disturbing, so absurd that we couldn’t do anything but share a couple of them with you.
@this wart on my finger ripped off while i was fingering this girl the other night. she thought she had gotten her period and started crying so i went with. its better for both of us that way.
@wow. im the dick repeller. its official.
It’s probably obvious where all of this is going. Rather than go on at length and become ghastly gross there is the definitive site for the drunk tweet. Check this out. Twitdrunk It’s here where the truly great stuff gets chronicled. And it gets better. Drunk_Tweet is there to handle the late night traffic overload that might happen to slow down Twitdrunk. Always nice to know there’s back up.
We save the best for last. DrunkTwt is an open account in which anyone can post an update. Anonymous, uncensored twitter updates for everyone. The site has been developed for you to update when you are drunk. Nothings censored and you can tweet anything you want to, like we’ve ever felt restrained in those moments, anyway. No spam likely here, huh?
Drunk tweeting is drunk dialing on steroids. This isn’t like the old days when you made the call to whomever, woke up realized or heard about what you had done and the only evidence that you were an idiot existed on the answering machine or in some-one’s faulty memory. The telephone call after way too much wine could somehow be explained away. A slur over the phone was never as bad as the jumbled non-sense from the mostly insane late night Tweet. This is a totally different deal. You may even want to reconsider at that very special moment and just go a bit retro to the simpler drink and dial. This is viral, baby. And it is forever.
Tweet responsibly and RT when it matters.
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