I like many people have be come sadly addicted to twitter - the minute I think of something witty, a mini-rant, or just have no-one next to me to tell and a thought pops into my head, I will tweet it. I warn you my tweets aren't exactly interesting.
However recently I have fallen a little out of love with Twitter, due to peoples obsession with unfollowing and following - loads of people seem to farm for followers which to me is a complete waste of time because if most of your tweets are about getting followers then it's boring - a bit of advise is if you follow a lot of people you get a lot of followers. Now I am no expert but I think that is how it's meant to work. Or heaven forbid you actually have something witty or interesting to say and people will naturally want to follow you. Two of the people that I follow with the most followers are two straight men that talk sex (A LOT) and are quite happy to interact with us gays... they cater to their audience.... the other person I follow with a lot of followers has guns that Saddam would be jealous of and is witty - it doesn't hurt that he is part of the cool boys of Clapham (Clapham Elite - its said with love before you all say I am a jealous bitch) - but that's not all he is - he isn't one dimensional. Some people could learn a lot from him.
Next to the obsession with getting followers is an obsession with unfollowers (as it were) - so I decide to unfollow you - what you going to do? Unfollow me? Go ahead, it wont cry at night - but also don't hark on about it. I understand that people want to know who has unfollowed them to a point, but then don't tweet about it - because it rather suggests you care a lot... and no matter how much you protest you are unbothered I would argue that you wouldn't check, tweet it and go into a conversation about it - and then if someone dares to question you on it go insane - they I do declare that you protest too much and I think a) you're a bit of a psycho, b) you get a lot of self worth from how many people you don't know read your brain farts.... bad times. The only thing you can do which is worse is declare "this is a private conversation" - because when you do this my blood pressure goes through the roof and I want to get a Twitter for Dummies Manual and explain to you what Twitter is and the very basic fact that everyone can read your tweets unless you block them or protect them. Twitter isn't Private - that's kinda the point!
So in conclusion its only Twitter, don't take it so seriously, don't block so much, follow and unfollow with gay abandon... I have followed and unfollowed someone twice now (he didn't get any better) and one of the people I am not keen on is pretty much universally loved so his name still features a surprising amount in my timeline - but I don't freak out about it - its not that poor boys fault that even his name can make me cringe... and if you are going to be worried about who unfollows you and you are desperate to build your fan base then at least have the balls to be open about it. Remember Followers doesn't equal Friends or Fans.
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