Like foil-tray frozen meals, which were used by airlines before Swanson branded them as “TV dinners,” Twitter was not initially invented to be an adjunct to the tube.
It made the entire world into an improv “Mystery Science Theater.”There were, of course, many Twitters existing in parallel: Politics Twitter, Sports Twitter, Black Twitter, Weird Twitter.
But Twitter and TV went together like extreme weather and marine predators.
When the first sets were rolled out as curiosities in the 1940s, spectators gathered in bars to watch boxing matches.
Twitter made the watch party global.
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Swanson, Twitter, Science, Sports Twitter