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According to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, they believe actions speak louder than tweets. I don’t know the context for their mentioning this, but I definitely agree. How about you?
I will leave you to your own speculation about who or what comes to mind when the subject of tweets comes up. I only caution you to avoid conflating tweeting with doing, tweeting with thoughtful discourse, tweeting with reality.
Although tweets and tweeting are fairly recent innovations, the idea of communicating through compact pronouncements is not. Let’s try a few examples that would have worked quite well as tweets, had the option been available at the time. I have picked out examples that may have best been directed to today’s most prolific tweeters. May I suggest that you focus on a specific tweeter, if one comes to mind. That will help when considering the fit between tweets and action, as KLM suggested.
#JohnLocke “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
#BenjaminFranklin “Well done is better than well said.”
#AlfredAdler “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
#HenryJKaiser “If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
#AndrewCarnegie “As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
#LewisCass “People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”
And of course, a good tweet session would hardly be complete without some old wisdom that comes from #Me “When all is said and done, don’t turn out to be the one for whom much is said but little is done.; for if your action can’t speak for its self, more tweets won’t do much to make your case.”