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Daily Show correspondent turned Apple pitchman John Hodgman is on Twitter, and he's using it to mock the habits of Twitter users. His salvos include entries like " BATTLESTAR GALACTICA REFERENCE," "VAGUE SHOUTOUT ('Cheers, @SFslim!')" and "GRADE A NON-SEQUITIR." Normally, this would be a bad self-promotional strategy. But as you can see from this complicated (and very scientific) Venn diagram which illustrates the interlocking audiences gripped by Hodg-mania, all Twitter users already fall into fan bases generated by other media channels, so Hodgman can abuse them at will. Except, of course, for hobos. Never, ever mock hobos if you know what's good for you.
Why John Hodgman can afford to mock Twitter users
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2:20 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Jackson West
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Leave the set theory to Ted.
More charts! Great job, Jackson. Next can you do a Venn diagram of...
-Bloggers
-Web 2.0 startup "CEOs"
-Bogus Oxycontin prescriptions
-People who type in all lowercase
-Natali Del Conte, because I haven't mentioned her lately
I take umbrage with that diagram, as it shows no intersection between hobos and Apple fanboys. You have to have the hobo mentality to successfully camp outside an urban Apple store for the One More Thing du jour.
No literary geek Apple fanboys? If I wasn't so positive that it's not true, I'd probably laugh my ass off.
Perhaps Venn diagrams would benefit from allowing the shapes to be more spikey, rather than circular.
True literary geeks absolutely hate computers. Just ask John Updike.
@Jackson West: Reliable sources tell me Updike absolutely loathes Twitter.
@giania: Only Dave Eggers. There can be only one.
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