It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.
Mira GonzalezI will sometimes post tweets that are about a specific person or people, in which case I will imagine the people I am tweeting about to be my audience.
Mira GonzalezFor reasons that I don't fully understand, Twitter is a place where I don't feel ashamed to say my most shameful thoughts.
Mira GonzalezI really like when people do 'stream of consciousness' tweeting, or when people's tweets come across as sort of manic and mostly unedited.
Mira GonzalezIn the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross.
Mira GonzalezSometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't feel I can say otherwise. Those tweets have a specific sense of desperation to them, because I write them when I feel like I don't have anyone else to talk to - as if Twitter is the only thing that will accept my insanely inappropriate thoughts without judgement.
Mira Gonzalez