Showing posts with label media theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media theory. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Deed of Establishment of TwitterPorn

I hacked the ping pong game on a Commodore 64K to give me extra balls.

Then I saw an Apple Macintosh and saw the light.
Then I bought a modem.
Then I stayed for years on iRC and newsnet.
Then I arrived at the web.
Then I saw and worked on Lotus Notes.
Then I saw the web interface for email.
Then I discovered MP3
Then I chat with colleagues on YM.
Then I bought books from Amazon.
Then I blogged about them.
Then I signed up for Facebook.
Then I joined twitter.

Twitter is the first time that I could reach everyone I know in social network, all in one screen.

All those plus my phones - Twitter now have access to my entire social map.
It’s the end of privacy. It’s the beginning of a new day.

Luckily enough, I don’t have that many friends yet on twitter. It will be the end days when everyone is on twitter. 
They now sport a cute logo and an innocent charm but I still don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. It’s all very googlish.

It makes me think: What better way to reach all of them? 
What message is likely to be relevant to all of them across all medium?

Porn

So I'm creating TwitterPorn.



PS: I’m really curious what the VCs think of Twitter. Mostly the US ones, the ones around here I’m not so sure.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Disclaimer

First order of the day would be to avoide a cease and decist letter from the Twitter people. I read their terms and FAQs and stuff, and I'm comitted to follow them very closely, so i'd hate to upset them at this very early, embrionic stage. I just got the idea four hours ago. I need a disclaimer.

It's still in narrative form, but i'll convert it into a legal language soon.


The general idea is to allow for a social experiment: crowdsourcing sex. The users get their rush from twitter. 

No foul language or explicit words will be used, twitter is a respectable environment. 

It will pass most standards of morality among the neo-liberals and neo-cons alike. The users of TwitterPorn should choose to go and visit TwitterPorn in their own free will. We will only work within the exact confines of the Twitter rules and morality supervision: Twitter alone can tell me what I can or can not say.

The idea is to generate traffic elsewhere, but also without routing URLs – cause that is spamming. Beside, I think URL is obsolete with search engines and twitters, so there will be no URLs being passed around. I will chronicle the journey to get this company up and running through my blogs, facebook, YM, emails and with some of you, we will probably need to discuss real funding. I raised funds for internet startups before, so this will be fun. 

I’d like to see the faces of the VCs when I tell them what I do.  

This is a McLuhan test for Jefferson’s idea, with sex for the tabloid effect.

The company is called TwitterPorn.