Interview Transcript
Question: Do you twitter?
Ricky Gervais: I’ve avoided it. I’ve avoided Facebook, MySpace. In fact, I keep taking off bogus Ricky Gervaises. And apparently, I’ve got the most fake me's on there. But I do my blog. Between the podcast and my blog, I got a lot more than Twitter could give me. I think the highest on there is about 100,000, whereas my podcast is downloaded like 120,000 times a day. My blog is read by 2 million people a month. So I control it.
It feels to me like you’re hanging around school for too long. Do you know what I mean? I don’t really see the point for me, and I’m sure it works for some people, but isn’t it just people saying, "Having a bath"? Okay, well done. Good. Nothing against it; but no, I’m not part of that. I think I’m a little bit old for that.
Recorded Feb 25, 2009.
Ricky Gervais on Twitter
Actor, Comedian
Ricky Gervais on the uselessness of micro-blogging.
February 26, 2009 | In Arts & Culture, Media & Internet
Discuss
Dennis Peng on March 23, 2009, 12:00 PM
I think Twitter just going to next big fad that comes out and slowly going to die away like every other fad that has came to the existence. In the past, we have had myspaces, sconex, and facebook. Eventually it will get too popular or the next big thing is going to come around makes this thing useless. I agree with him that being with the twitter would bring you back to as if you are a child again. I also agree with him that blogs and podcasts are better than twitter. Twitter seems like it could be fun for awhile but later on it would get boring and eventually annoying to keep getting those twit when you don’t want it or when it is the least convenient for a person. It is just a fad other than really famous people who wants the attention, blue collar people probably won’t get into it.
Viktor Edholm on January 9, 2010, 6:03 PM
Oh you’re not too old, and oh you’re so wrong! Twitter is an ongoing conversation and information sharing between as many people as you possibly would want.
Some people write blogs about what they did all they, some write blogs about meaningful and insightful things.
It’s the same way with Twitter, it can be anything depending on how you choose to use it.
Dennis Peng, Twitter ain’t going away. :P
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