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The Twitter trolls come in several forms. CapsCop, for instance, pounces on users who have the unpleasant tendency to tweet with the Caps lock on. Another, GrammarCop (noticing a trend here?) becomes irate when users, such as Kirstie Alley and John Cusack, abandon proper grammar or commit typos in the course of banging out a casual 140-character musing. The New York Times identified no less than half-a-dozen other notable Twitter accounts dedicated to pointing out the language failures of others: Grammar Fail, Grammar Hero, Your Or Youre, Word Police and Spelling Police.
Others have taken the assault on poor Twitter-quette beyond simply pointing out folks' poor grasp on the English language, and instead attack the quality of their character. In fact, the site Tweeting Too Hard exists purely to highlight the short form reflections of the self-important. Sure, spoiled brats complaining about not having the cash to gas up daddy's private jet are annoying, but when the site's creator posts bits of "Twisdom" (e.g., "Bucket List: [✔] Appear on the homepage of http://nytimes.com - and look smug"), the mocking hardly seems credible. The aforementioned creator, @jacobmorse, would defend such a post by pointing out its obvious irony. Still, publicly reveling in the faults of others requires a certain amount of self-absorption, regardless of your literary tool of choice.
Look, here at Switched we take the English language seriously. We're just as annoyed by "shouting," camel case, and spoiled, self-important jerks as the next guy or girl. But we've got better things to do with our time then shout them down via @replies on Twitter. Or make entire accounts, websites and tweets to do the dirty work for us. Seems, quite frankly, like high school hallways, don't you think? [From: New York Times]
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Subscribe to commentsTwitter FailApr 29th 2010 9:13PM
It is interesting to find people who write an entire blog post by just rewording something they have read elsewhere, without even checking out the sources of that article. If you had, you might have noticed that these "police" are all providing a humorous commentary on twitter users, their tweets, and twitter itself. My blog, which was mentioned in the NYTImes article (www.TwitterFail.com) has never once chastised a user for their bad grammar. Its tagline is: "sharing the good, and exposing the best of the worst on twitter." And that's exactly what you'll find there, all wrapped up in silliness, inside jokes, and all around goofy fun. If you're not a twitter user, you may not "get" it, and that's okay, you're not my audience. Believe it or not, many people have been thrilled to find they were mentioned in one of my posts, and still others love giving their friends a nudge in the ribs when something they write becomes crosses my radar. If you want to blast my blog, please read it first, and then unload your vitriol in the comments.