A new disease "Twitter's Block"

Twitter's block
Definition:
From: The "Jetpedia" http://www.youtube.com/PlanetjetProductions
For other uses, see Twitter's block (disambiguation).

Twitter's block is a condition, associated with Tweeting as an obsession, in which a tweeter loses the ability to post anything under 140 characters. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the tweet at hand. At the other extreme, some "blocked" tweeters have been unable to tweet for years on end, and some have even abandoned their accounts. It can manifest as the affected tweeter viewing their tweets as derivative or unsuitable, when in fact it could be the opposite.

Causes of Twitter's block

Twitter's block may have many causes. Some are essentially randomness problems that originate within an tweet's tweets itself. A tweeter may have suffered the lost of internet connection. The tweeter may have a real life and feel they may have something that needs to be done before hand. A tweet may be fundamentally misconceived, or beyond the tweeter's IQ or logic. A fictional example can be found in George Orwell's novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying, in which the hero Gordon Comstock struggles in vain to complete an epic poem describing a day in London: "It was too big for him, that was the truth. It had never really progressed, it had simply fallen apart into a series of fragments."

Other blocks, especially the more serious kind, may be produced by adverse circumstances in a tweeter's account: broken keyboard, bad connection, a start of a relationship, financial pressures, a sense that nobody really cares about their tweets. The pressure to produce tweets may in itself contribute to a tweeter's block, especially if they are compelled to tweet in ways that are against their natural inclination, i.e. Tweeting what color your bowel movement is. In some cases, tweeter's block may also come from feeling intimidated by a previous trending tweet, the creator putting on themselves a paralyzing pressure to find something to equate that same retweeted and trending tweet again. The writer Elizabeth Gilbert, reflecting on her post-bestseller prospects, proposes that such a pressure might be released by interpreting creative writers as "having" genius rather than "being" a genius. In George Gissing's New Grub Street, one of the first novels to take twitter's block as a main theme, the parodist hidden under the name Jet for example becomes completely unable to tweet and is shown as suffering from all those problems.

Twitter's Block is a new disease and still umentioned on various TV shows like Jimmy Kimmel's and on the Letterman show. Some character like Ragimu Huhuga admits to suffering from Twitter's Block when he is having difficulty envisioning how to tweet nonesense under 140 characters.

Information retrieved from the Jetpedia on Walang Magawa Production whis is sponsored by Planet Jet Productions.