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Sweden Experiments With Public Twitter Takeover
revealingheart writes "BBC reports that Sweden is allowing one citizen per week to take control of its official Twitter feed, in what's been described as 'the world's most democratic Twitter experiment.' Adam Arnesson, a 21-year-old organic sheep farmer, is said to be the biggest star of the project so far, uploading photos and videos of life on his family's farm; while a female minister in the Church of Sweden and a Bosnian immigrant have also posted on the feed. The Swedish Institute and VisitSweden launched the experiment in December, which has helped to double Sweden's Twitter followers in the past month."
Cool! Let's check out the Twitter feed.
"Open-mindedness often shines like a bright flower in a blurry landscape of prejudices."
...aaaaand it's as douchey as every other Twitter feed ever.
BBC reports that Sweden is allowing one citizen per week to take control of its official Twitter feed, in what's been described as 'the world's most democratic Twitter experiment.'
Democratic? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. According to Wikipedia:
Democracy in its purest or most ideal form would be a society in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives.
So it's not Democratic at all unless you let everyone vote on each Twitter post, which would make it American Idol: Sweden Edition. Instead, this is more like some MTV reality show where everyone sits at home and says, "huh... so that's what the country would be like if this moron was running things... thank goodness he's not... maybe next week will be different and meaningful" every week. A little advice to all you folks in Sweden: we tried this in the U.S. already. We called it the second Bush presidency.
Adam Arnesson, a 21-year-old organic sheep farmer
So did he twit what he does with his harvested organs? Are they used for the stem cell fresh blood car washing therapy from yesterday?
Prior Art: Doesn't London have a park where any wing-nut can stand up on a soapbox and spew nonsensical non sequiturs to a gullible crowd, who would rather be assimilated than think for themselves?
I guess that really sums up the Internet today, actually.
Democratic? Hardly. I never voted for him, and neither did any Swede. But I guess in this case, one twit is as good as the next.
"Who's been sleeping in my brain . . . ?"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Actually, this is a pretty cool idea -- there's not a chance anyone's going to say anything less interesting than stuff that would come from the Gov't. So hey, keep it coming!
Unless those people were carefully selected, vetted, and choreographed by the government to be the blandest, most politically correct, most non-offensive Swedish people in all of Sweden (In that case, all bets are off, and you'll probably just want to kill yourself after five minutes of exposure to their feed).