What’s in a Tweet?
Posted by Editor in Losungen, tags: aplusk, ashton kutcher, britney spears, ellen degeneres, gay, gay calculator, gay feed, hetero, pride, pride 2009, stockholm, sweden, twitter, twitter analyzer“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose hetero,
By any other name would smell as sweet is in the tweet.”
Click these top twits tiles above to see their current results.
Ever wonder how “hetero” Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter Feed is? Me neither. But, the folks at Stockholm Pride in their Nobel way, have developed a clever tool to attract visitors to their site for details of the Pride festivities, kicking off in Stockholm July 27, lasting through August 2. From the land that gave us the invention of dynamite, comes this scientific “Twitter Feed Analyzer” which provides to the precise mathmatical percentage, just how “hetero” a twitter’s tweets are. It’s easy. Just head over to the How Hetero? website, enter a twitter user name (why not start with yours!) and, as they say, if the glove fits…
More from Stockholm Pride 2009, “Scandanavia’s largest Pride Festival”…
“The theme for Stockholm Pride 2009 is [Hetero] were we focus on how heteronormativity effects the everyday life of homosexual, bisexual and transgender persons, the consequences it brings and how it effects the society as a whole. Part of the heteronormative environment is defined by how we connect specific words to norms en perceptions of how a “real” man och woman should be och behave. With this test we set out in a direct and funny way to show how these norms effects us by how others sees us. We have deliberately chosen to press every participant to choose their gender to show how tightly our language is connected to perceptions of both gender and sexuality. How does heteronormativity affect you? That is our topic av this years edition of Stockholm Pride. You can find more information och our website, www.stockholmpride.org/en. Welcome!”
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