This is my twitter to the world
That never twittered me —
The inane things of daily life
Deserve obscurity.
Incessant streams of messages —
They come in starts and fits —
What one’s eating, whom one’s dating —
A universe of twits!
— Leon Freilich
(He’s our Calvin Trillin.)
Postscript: June 15 — Looks like Emily made a bad guess … see “Iran’s Twitter Revolution.” “I was also wrong about YouTube a few years ago,” she says.