Every Time Larry King Wants To Send A Tweet He Calls A Voicemail Set Up Specifically For His Twitter Then His Assistant Enters It Into The Computer
(Source) “I Twitter everyday,” he says in his hotel room at a Ritz-Carlton in Washington, where he was staying in advance of a Wednesday night appearance at the Newseum.
When Larry King wants to tweet, he doesn’t log onto the Internet. He pops open the flip phone stored in the shirt pocket between his suspender straps and calls the number for a voicemail set up specifically for this purpose. Then he dictates a thought that will be picked up by an assistant and transcribed onto his @KingsThings Twitter account. And nearly 2.6 million followers are there to receive it.
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Even though this is the probably the least surprising news of all time, the fact that Larry King doesn’t actually use a computer, the twitter voicemail is so fucking next level. Larry King just rambling nonsense into a phone to 2.3 million people. Anything and everything that pops into his head is just a phone call away. Technology is moving one way and Larry King and his flip phone are staying right where they are. Back when I worked in the real world there was a guy who would always send faxes instead of emails. Literally would send a fax asking a one line question that could be accomplished over email or a 2 second phone call. Was it annoying? Yeah a little, but I also respected it. Because old people resisting technology are always the best. There is just some weird nobility in saying, fuck the rest of the world, I liked exactly how it was 20 years ago. So props Larry King, I appreciate your resolve. Telling everyone to have fun with their little twitter machine, I have my nokia, a game of snake, and the unlimited nights and weekend plan, suckersssss.
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Could you imagine being the assistant who has this job. Hey man, what do you do for a living? Well, actually, I just sit in my house waiting for a 90 year old man to leave a voicemail so that I can then type the words into twitter. Wild stuff.