If a tree falls during a “twitter storm” and no one is around, does it make a sound?
That is what I asked myself when I stumbled upon this morning’s Washington Post “On Faith” section that caught my attention: Protests on Twitter against Glenn Beck. That’s right, cyberspace protesting using Twitter: a Twitter storm. Apparently, this is the first such known protest on Twitter.
You may remember Glenn Beck pleading his listeners to flee their churches if their priest or pastor preached “social justice” because those are code words for “socialism.” You can read my blog post about this at my Times Union Newspaper blog here and here.
These protests consist of “twitter storming” or “tweet storming” Beck. Apparently, a “tweetstorm” occurs when users on Twitter inundate a user’s account with thousands of messages, mentions, and replies that use the user’s @ username. The very interesting and funny website Haik U Glenn Beck has thousands of haikus that speak to our “inner zen” of poetry. The idea is to use these haikus to send to Beck’s twitter account — one a minute till they run out.
Some of the haikus that stuck out on the website are:
