These days, it takes too much effort to actually get up and deliver a message the old fashioned way.
That’s why Twitter exists — the micro-blogging medium for people who don’t want to take a lot of time getting to the point.
But for those who feel guilty over being so lazy, Sam Wilson has volunteered to do the legwork for you.
Sam, a 31-year-old South African writer, recently launched www.illscreamyourtweets.com.
As a service to humanity — and his own whimsy — Sam takes Tweets sent to him, walks up a mountain, and shouts them at the top of his lungs.
So far, he’s yelled out about 40 messages.
“I can’t really scream more than ten at a time because my throat gets shredded,” he explains to Sun Media. “I’m really belting them out.”
He’s screamed them out on Table Mountain and nearby Lion’s Head as well. He’s now considering letting them fly off of a South African roller-coaster or into a library.
When you think about it, this was likely the first version of Twitter — locals in ancient lands shouting messages across valleys. Though, they probably didn’t spend much time fretting over who was voted off Dancing with the Stars or venting about long lineups at Starbucks.
A part-time hiker and full-time writer for a Cape Town television company, Sam — video camera in hand — shouts out requested Tweets like “I’m going to jump” and “I’m Twitter-screaming upside down from the northern hemisphere.”
“They echo like crazy,” he explains. “I’ve had a couple of hikers giving me odd looks and dogs start barking in the distance.”
If you believe this is just screaming into the wind, and has no effect, tell it to one happy woman who is now engaged because of it. Her boyfriend sent a Tweet to Sam, asking he gather up a group of people, go up the mountain and yell out a marriage proposal.
The footage was posted online, and she’s said "yes."
Given that, you better think hard about what Tweet is worthy to be screamed to heaven.
So after much thought, Sam will soon return to his mountain with a Tweet from me — delivered to my father, Gerald, who died in 2003.
He lapsed into unconsciousness, as we were watching a television documentary I found interesting. Obviously, he disagreed.
So the Tweet Sam will scream out for me?
“OK Dad. You win. Next time, you get the TV remote.”
