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6 Jan 2012
January 6th, 10:49am 0 comments

Watch the Tweet: My Favorite Tweets about the Kanye West Twitter Rant

It’s been a more  than 24 hours since Kanye West shook up the Twitterverse.  Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past day, you know about how Kanye West took to twitter to voice his opinions about the American education system, set the record straight about his clothing line, and talk about his trials as a fashion intern (if you don’t know the story by now, hide your face in shame and then update yourself by reading the story here)
 
Of course, there was DONDA.  What is Dona? Well, I would tell you, but I think Mr. West says it best:
 

So what’s the next step  when you create a new company?  Start recruiting! In Kanye’s case, he was looking for umm... everyone:



(Honestly, if you don’t fit into one of those categories and you want to work for Kanye West, you need to redo your life plan. I’m serious. Go now.)

Then came the most epic twitter moment of ALL TIME: Kanye posted the beacon of light to all DONDA employee hopefuls: the DONDA email address.

I’m surprised gmail didn’t crash.

Kanye seems to have said his peace (at least for now) and hasn’t tweeted since.

Well it’s been a day since Kanye wrote the 86 tweets heard around the world. The Huffington Post led the online world in writing about the rant, publishing a post barely an hour after Kanye stopped tweeting. Since then, tech sites from Mashable, to gossip blogs like Necole Bitchie have all had their say about West and his proposed “best company of all time.” Jimmy Kimmel also took his shot last night with his own commercial for DONDA based on Kanye’ tweets.

The fire has died down significantly from two nights ago, but the online world is still buzzing.

Maybe it’s the journalist inside of me that requires me to listen to the voice of the people, but to me, what was just as interesting as the Kanye West twitter rant was people’s RESPONSES to the Kanye West twitter rant.

I spent the last 24 (give or take a few) hours looking at tweets about  Kanye. Using the hash tag #DONDA and searching the trending topics DONDA and Kanye, I came across quite a few interesting tweets. They were hopeful, skeptical, supportive, and logical. A lot of them were also HILARIOUS.

Please pardon me while I bring briefly bring DONDA back into relevancy to share my favorite tweets of the day.

Funny, despite the flurry of activity on Twitter the night before, a couple of my followers had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned DONDA that night or the next morning. Maybe because they have an actual...umm... life? My friend Chip Dizard was one of them.





He retweeted that last tweet. I swear he was mocking me.

Some of those following Kanye’s rant were confused by the DONDA concept. By “some” I really mean “many” (I know I was giving  the DONDA idea the sideye).

One tweeter creatively expressed her confusion Kanye style, with lyrics from the Watch the Throne album:

Not everyone in the Twitter world was on board with the DONDA idea. Some gave Kanye’s concept the good ole *Kanye Shrug*:



Others  were glad to see Mr. West tweeting about creative vision and innovation.

DONDA particularly caught the eye of tech entrepreneur Wanye Sutton.

You may remember him from the CNN’s Black in America 4: The New Promised Land- Silicon Valley. Sutton is one of the partners and creators of the NewMe Accelerator, the first minority led startup accelerator in Silicon Valley.  So yeah, that means he’s competition.


If Sutton gets a call from DONDA, I’m thinking that company definitley has a shot.

No matter how innovative DONDA sounds, one tweeter warned DONDA future employee hopefuls to use some common sense, and not throw it all out the window just because Kanye West came a callin’.

So...will DONDA ever come to fruition? We’ll see. Kanye is a mover and shaker, so I’m sure at least a part of this project will see the light. I mean, it’s not like this is Diddy and he’s trying to make a band (yeah, I went there).

I’m excited to see how this project unfolds. And if you get a response from DONDA, remember we’re friends.

-The Vibrant VJ


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