Twitter Gets Cover of TIME Magazine: Game Over, All Over Again

by Truemorist | June 4, 2009 at 10:38 am

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Not content to be lauded by Oprah and embraced by every A-to-D-grade celebrity in the known Twitterverse, Twitter can pat itself on the back for marking another mainstream media milestone — making the cover of TIME Magazine.

Of course, as Gawker duly notes (and to paraphrase Jay-Z) what more can they possibly have to say?

Tune in on Friday when the magazine hits news stands, complete with its hyperbolic headline pronouncement: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

[A]s millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds.

But is it...really?

America might not make actual things any more, but at least we've learned to occupy our time talking endlessly and unprofitably to one another, in an entirely massless location, about which other entirely massless things deserve our time and/or increasingly worthless borrowed dollars.