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The Most Tweet-able of Halloweens
November 3, 2009
Halloween costumes now tend to come in two strains: the timely and the timeless. The timely ones try to recreate snapshots of the then-current personalities and time; think Bill Clinton or SpongeBob SquarePants. The timeless ones embrace the traditional figures associated with the holiday such as Dracula or the Wicked Witch.
This Halloween, timeliness certainly took the spotlight, capturing our observations and emotions of the past few months as precisely as possible. Didn’t it seem every costume was conceived as the potential topic of a tweet—a momentary display of wit for a passerby? If your costume wasn’t based on a Twitter trending topic, then the boos you heard had no association with ghosts. It was incumbent upon you to go back to the drawing board and rethink what you wore.
Even the once timeless costumes could no longer be. If you chose to dress as a witch in pointed hat, then you were an ironic witch. If you chose to be a witch with a wink, you were nothing more than a quaint reminder of the past.
In hindsight, this gravitation towards timely costumes is inevitable. Our society is becoming ever more entranced with the consumption of the here and now—instant messaging, frequently updated status messages, Twittering, feeds on what your colleagues, friends, and virtual friends are doing and the like. We’ve become gluttons of the instantaneous. We want more of “it” faster since what is brilliant one minute becomes completely irrelevant the next.
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