Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 26, 2011

Tweeting is the most pointless and ephemeral form of communication invented since … well, since ever. Fnord.

Bird brains with nano-short attention spans & narcissistic, obsessive tendencies.

But don’t you wish you’d thought of it first?

I may simply be too old to tweet – there are only so many new platforms I can be bothered with. On the other hand, my teenagers (along with every single teen in my youth group) can’t be bothered with it, either. They’re still happy with texting.

Well, this isn’t a complete rerun. Tweeting wasn’t around the last time the mail silo burned.

whats worse a butt tweet or butt call

I freely admit to being a reactionary grumpy old man, but I just don’t get the whole tweeting thing. Why in the world would anyone be interested in the banal daily minutiae of someone else’s life?

No it isn’t a rerun, I didn’t think so Monday and am even more convinced today. Look at the strip dates in panel 1 today & yesterday, panel 3 Monday & panel 2 Tuesday. These are the original pub dates, are on the original art and do not change.

^I am not particularly interested in the banal daily minutiae of my own life.

How many tweets can a tweeting twit tweetwhen a tweeting twit tweets twits?

Tweeting is merely the newest form of a profoundly human folly. Wordsworth, the great Romantic poet, noted that each of us knows our most private sentiments (our real self) can’t be communicated, yet everybody is eager to hear about this private self.

This is a REPEAT. The SAME lame jokes were heard last time. I can’t believe you guys have such a short memory. It’s from last year! Look at the year between panels 1 and 2! The date ON the comic itself is the date it is scheduled to be printed and that changes even if it’s a repeat! EVERY time Trudeau goes on vacation, new people crop up that were born yesterday saying how this is new and fresh material and debate it while the date is CLEARLY shown!

To me the most relevant question about all this is,“What’s a butt-tweet?”

And just who is the culprit, according to the tweeter?

Yes, all those stupid tweeters are idiots. Like the ones tweeting to each other about where the forest fires were and weren’t up in the Colorado mountains earlier this year so they could know better when to evacuate. Not to mention all those stupid Egytians, Tunisians, Syrians, Bahrainians, et. al, who though they could use Twitter to keep organize meetings, warn each other of where the police were and keep current on the government’s announcements. Bunch of total morons!

RinaFarina, – A Butt-tweet is like a butt-dial. Refers to actions your phone might do if you put it in your hip pocket with the keys active, and random pressures are applied. My uninformed bet would be on “redial” and “speed-dialing” being the most common of these.

Is it illegal to tweet and text while driving?

salgud makes a very good point. Like any tool, it depends what you use it for and how well you use it….twitter has proved itself useful….

Yes, it is a rerun. But to be fair, GT did change the colors (and date), so that is a little work.

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/01/07/

One of the very best segments in any comic strip ever was the series concerning the “Rapture” and Zonker and his neighbor. Thank you, G. Trudeau

this has nothing to do with mis-tweeting and everything to do with who benefited from attacks on 9/11. this is one of the first cracks in mainstream media for uncovering the truth about what really happened.

Without Twitter, it’s highly doubtful there would have been an Arab Spring.

Wasn’t butt-tweet one of the little rascals?