Twitter React or Twitter Reflect? – Wordle….
Today the very popular website wordle, was not available. Some bloke decided that using the name was a copyright infringement see freetech4teachers , #savewordle and pheinblog: Wordle is in Trouble to see the back story. Now, I like using wordle, it has created some excellent posters for my class. However, the world of twitter seems very quick to react to events now rather than reflect. I remember a ‘reaction’ a while ago about the injustice of a chap who got arrested for handing in a gun to the police that he had ‘found’. Twitter was in uproar, tweets were flying all over the place about how ridiculous that was… eventually the full facts came out and they weren’t as they were first portrayed. The same, albeit less dramatic happened with wordle. As you can see from the #savewordle link people (even now – 21.20) are tweeting about saving wordle, when if you click on this link you’ll see it is back up and running.
Now don’t get me wrong, I applaud the support that has been given to Jonathan Feinberg in supporting wordle, but aren’t we in danger of jumping on bandwagons too quickly without a bit of reflection first. Twitter, is very instantaneous, and when you have tweeted, it is very difficult to ‘untweet’. Maybe its just me, but a little reflection is probably worth it in the long run.