The Tweeting Brain
There’s a video I think of whenever I ask too many questions in a row… #selfie. In it, a girl is wondering about what her friends are wearing or who’s going out with who. She interrupts her thoughts to take a selfie.
I think of this video when it comes to Twitter. At 6,000 Tweets per second on Twitter, it’s like a giant brain in deep need of mindfulness training. As a result, one can very quickly get a pulse on the feelings and thoughts in the instantaneous zeitgeist but can almost immediately get lost in a sea of endless thoughts being churned out.
I find Twitter to be helpful when I want to find out if something bad is happening right now. If it’s true, people will tweet about it en masse.
If we look at Twitter as a brain of humanity, what would it look like if we could tweet directly from our thoughts? If a device like Neuralink would tweet every time we’re hungry, what additional noise would that pump in to the system?
What would the aggregate of these thoughts look like when zoomed out?
After the latest acquisition of Twitter, we mind find out the answer soon enough.
