Sunday, December 02, 2012

When Natural Born Twitters meet Dog Day Afternoon


When Natural Born Twitters meet Dog Day Afternoon:
I'm deeply concerned here.  The individual here was clearly disturbed but also tech and media savvy enough to garner twitter-wide sympathy.  As a self appointed "media examiner" it looks as though this person may have been attempting one of two things; suicide by police or trying his case in the media.  At the end of the day, he got what he wanted, which was an audience.  What disturbs me as how in his state of decomposition, he's become a sensational news story (part by his own doing) as opposed to a person in need of real psychological interventions.  The question I have though is how and why were his social media feeds allowed to continue?  


Man tweets, broadcasts police standoff from basement in Baltimore