Twitter is the most interesting tool to share information, communicate, work together, start a movement (civil rights), ask for help (humanitarian crisis), disclose, spread, draw attention to priority issues. Twitter is fast, agile, flexible, permeable to change, with no obstacles as ads :) Is this the reason for not being profitable? Well, in today economic and financial system, ads are part of the game, but many users are trying to find a constructive and innovative way of making it sustainable. We live in a materialistic world that only values things. And yet, we see valuable human resources (new strategies, creative communities) being shared in this beautiful net. Every day, hour, minute, second. Twitter is the most democratic interaction on internet. You don't need to have thousands of followers to get the attention of someone who has. You belong to a great community: its users across the planet. #WeareTwitter and #BuyTwitter are trying to avoid losing this innovative tool to big companies that will make it profitable in the monetized and financial system. If users lose it, Twitter will no longer be Twitter as we know it.
Examples of cultural changes from creative communities:
1. International Solidarity Network Conference in Seattle: "... picket, fight, and win, ... a new model of worker and tenant organizing that has begun to emerge in recent years in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. Solidarity networks are volunteer mutual support groups that organize around specific cases using collective, direct action tactics. Decisions within the group are made on a directly democratic basis at weekly meetings, with no elected officers. There are no specialized professional organizers, and groups don’t have any regular funding sources outside of small individual donations..."
2.Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15M of americans' personal debt: " ... By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000. ... The group is able to buy debt so cheaply due to the nature of the "secondary debt market". If individuals consistently fail to pay bills from credit cards, loans, or medical insurance the bank or lender that issued the funds will eventually cut its losses by selling that debt to a third party. These sales occur for a fraction of the debt’s true values – typically for five cents on the dollar – and debt-buying companies then attempt to recoup the debt from the individual debtor and thus make a profit. ..."
These initiaves remind me of Frank Capra's movies:
When I heard Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring for the first time I was hypnotized. I was still a child watching TV in black and white, and it was a ballet. I don't enjoy ballet any more but this music stays in my brain and in my heart. The Rite of Spring could be a perfect soundtrack for so many movies... movies about life, spring, nature, desire, beginning, passion, ravishment, vitality. I found this Computer Animation in Open Culture:
"... In 2013, the art of computer graphics greatly expands the quest for an ever more perfect way to represent music not just to the ear, but to the eye. Composer, pianist and software engineer Stephen Malinowski has long led the way with the various iterations of his Music Animation Machine."
I just found this song on Twitter, When I'm old, played by some Berklee students. It´s a sunny song that reminds us Spring. I wish them all a good life with Spring in their hearts and the possibility of making good music for a long long time. Music plays an important role in this world.
