The YouTube video “Flutter: The New Twitter” mocks the well-known microblog Twitter. It sarcastically claims that Twitter is too time consuming for some people because it takes a lot of time to read posts that have up to 140 characters. In reality, reading a couple lines of text takes mere seconds. “Flutter” also argues that everyone wants to tweet about uneventful situations. In particular, the video described a future Flutter Application that tweets automatically when you doing something trivial like stepping inside a public bathroom. The application would tweet, for example, “Kim in bathroom”. Certainly people tweet about more interesting topics than this. Moreover, the video also argues that everyone is tweeting constantly or at least wish they could tweet continuously. “FlutterEyes” were described in the video as eye glasses that constantly run a scroll of tweets at the bottom of the lenses. This device was invented to meet people’s need to multitask.
The video’s audience is anyone who is somewhat familiar with Twitter; the video assumes this. Only those familiar with the gist of Twitter can understand the humor and mockery in the video. The purpose of this video is to mock Twitter, not to persuade Twitter users to stop using twitter. Thus, the audience is not solely limited to Twitter users. Obviously, since the video is in English, the intended audience is narrowed to English speaking people.
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Great job! I agree with your argument on the focus of the video being mainly Twitter users. I cannot imagine someone who is unfamiliar with Twitter understanding much of the humor. You analyzed who the target audience of the video is and added your own opinion to the introduction quite nicely. Good job explaining the specific examples the video introduced.
ReplyDeleteI really like the part where you pointed out the specific audience of the Flutter video. It is certainly true that someone without the knowledge of Twitter would find it hard to understand the video. I also liked how you included some of the evidences used in the video, especially the "fluttereyes", which I found the most entertaining throughout the video. Great job !
ReplyDeleteGood job discussing audience on this one...it was good to see that you took a specific aspect to focus on for a bit. I agree with your argument through and through. All of your points made sense, and were supported by examples from the video. Your point by point style was effective in this case because built your argument quickly, without having to explain things too detailed.
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