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I’ve just been thinking about something RE: Twitter and performance.
I realised that as I am most creative at night, quite often I will
think of something that (I believe) is humourous circa 3 - 4am when
none of my followers are awake. I sometimes record my thought to
tweet it at a time when I think most people will see it and it will
spark the most amount of @replies.
This is apparently quite a common theme amongst Twitter users and
there have been a few applications developed to assist in this
process (eg. Birdhouse, which acts as a notepad to store tweets,
which can then be updated to the site directly from the application
at a later time).
I found a quote which I found to be quite relevant to this process:
“We’re all characters in search of an audience. Without one, our
experiences seem not to matter, or even not to have happened…” -
Johnny Thakkar in “The Withering of Narcissus: Playing Tyrant on the
Internet” for The Point Magazine <http://thepointmag.com/index.html>
I feel this sums the idea up quite neatly as not only do I feel that
I am waiting until I have the greatest audience, I am also wanting to
tweet at a time that will most validate my ‘experience’ through
@replies/acknowledgments. It seems a very calculating way to
construct a self online when I think about it.
I think this is important to discuss with relation to Goffman and
performance but my question is this: how can I talk about this
without using ‘I’ and without being really able to back this claim
up, with academic literature or otherwise?
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