Tyler Green in Modern Art Notes: This morning [Dec. 5], the Walker Art Center offered up what might be the dumbest tweet ever: “Wondering what people would like us to tweet about more. Got suggestions? Reply!” … The Walker Art Center is one of America’s best contemporary art museums. Its building is full of modern art and contemporary art from its permanent collection of art. It hosts art exhibitions, and it employs art curators and other smart art people. I’d bet that its offices are full of art. The place exists because of art. And the Walker Art Center can’t figure out what it should be tweeting about? (I mean, you know it’s time to lay off the entire web/interactive/whatever staff when…)… Bottom line, museums: If you blog or tweet, make sure at least half of your blog posts are about art objects.
National Critical Disdain for Walker Twitter Lameness
Dec 16 2008 — 11:37am
15 Reader Comments
11:42 am
Did he not actually read what the Walker has already tweeted? There’s plenty about art.
11:43 am
I want more tweets about Art Garfunkel.
11:43 am
Here’s a tweet for the Walker:
“Man, in a boat, overboard”
http://press.walkerart.org/release.wac?id=4050
11:58 am
I dunno. I can’t see the connection between the walker and ART. It’s never very clear to me.
12:00 pm
Them’s fightin’ words on this board, Sherman.
12:40 pm
I know I read it somwhere, but wasn’t there a tipping point about 3 weeks ago where some tastemaker in the PR World touted the virtues of Twitter for PR and there was a mad dash of PR drones to Twitter?
1:17 pm
@g_rote: Sounds about right. There is most definitely a domino effect in the world of media (esp. broadcasting). I can’t wait for our local media and orgs to start tweeting about something like a funeral.
1:20 pm
For added context, here is our twitter URL:
http://twitter.com/walkerartcenter
We think we’re doing OK with twitter right now. I like twitter a lot, but it is *just* twitter. No need to get worked up about twitter, of all things.
1:26 pm
Between RSS feeds, blogs, online newspaper and magazine content, personal e-mails and Facebook, I have a hard enough time staying employed. Twitter is where I draw the line. No room for that straw on the proverbial camelback …
1:40 pm
I agree with CSE, I’m holding off on following anybody on twitter, and especially tweeting my own damn self. It’s too much.
And several people I know in the PR world did recently fire up twitter accounts, so there could be something that triggered it, as g_rote said.
What do people talk about while getting boozed up if they already know what their friends have been up to at every waking moment? Current events? Harumph to that! And bah humbug as well!
1:49 pm
“…wasn’t there a tipping point about 3 weeks ago where some tastemaker in the PR World touted the virtues of Twitter for PR and there was a mad dash of PR drones to Twitter?”
That might be Minnesota’s own Julio Ojeda-Zapata, the author of “Twitter Means Business.”
I have a 125 or so followers on my two Tweet accounts, so at least a few are interested in what this PR drone has to say in 145 characters or less.
1:57 pm
“…wasn’t there a tipping point about 3 weeks ago where some tastemaker in the PR World touted the virtues of Twitter for PR and there was a mad dash of PR drones to Twitter?”
Apparently, it was a hot topic at the recent Minnesota PRSA conference.
I’m all for PR people using social media; the problem is that most aren’t doing it well.
2:08 pm
all ur sosal medeeah belong to us.
2:11 pm
Besides, how can we suck at social media? I mean, we got our own facebook page and everything… (grin)
3:35 pm
This seems like a rant designed for a personal blog.