Twittering
As you can see in the sidebar to your left, I signed up on Twitter (not to be confused with Titter, America’s Merriest Magazine). Feel free to “follow” me and mayhaps I’ll “follow” you.
Yup, another internet doohickey to play with. I’m always looking for new ones to try; I like to tinker and it’s part of my job. This could be a stalker’s best friend — Stalking 2.0 — but I don’t intend to use it in a way that’s useful to stalkers (sorry stalkers).
For the past couple months I’ve been thinking about creating a mini blog for things like links, interesting words, quotes, phrases, random thoughts, etc. Devoting an entire blog entry to one of those always seemed excessive, unless I grouped them. Twitter seems like the perfect solution. It does exactly what I was going to create and more — I can post from my mobile phone. Now I don’t have to spend time figuring out how to get Textpattern to do it, just add some CSS.
It has been in my “Check it Out” folder ever since I heard about it a few months ago. I forgot about it until I read about it on Candleblog and Undead Molly.
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Molly said 242 days ago:
Twitter… I didn’t get the concept. I didn’t think I’d be interested in the minutiae of other’s lives, or why they’d be interested in mine. And when I signed up a week ago out of desperate boredom the only person I could find who I knew was Bill Simmon. Seemed like a bust.
But in the past week more people I know or sort-of know have joined and I’m finding that they have pretty amusing or interesting minutiae. I’m tentatively pleased with the endeavor.
S.R. Wild said 242 days ago:
I felt the same about it. I’ve only been on it for two days, it’s entertaining thus far — I dig triviality.
So far, I only have four “followers” (saying it like that appeals to my messiah complex) and four people that I follow. I always have a hard time making virtual connections, but quality is more important than quantity for me.
In the future, when everyone carries a mobile device that’s connected to the internet and GPS, along with many other things, they’ll be able to publish what they’re doing and where they are on the planet — in the distant future, it will be known as The Minutia Age. This is already happening to an extent. It’s cool, yet scary.
S.R. Wild said 240 days ago:
Some guy I don’t know started following me on twitter today! What do I do? Should I walk really fast and try to lose him or turn around and ask him why he’s following me? I hope I don’t have another stalker.
Molly said 239 days ago:
Some guy I don’t know started following me, too. Some dude from Arizona. I’ve never been to Arizona. He only follows two other people who appear to be his brother and a friend. And me. Why? How?
S.R. Wild said 239 days ago:
I don’t know how I feel about someone I don’t even sort of know following me.
My unknown follower is from Texas. I’ve never been there nor do I know anyone there. He is following 43,402 and has 6,809 followers. What the fuck! He must just be collecting people. Maybe he thinks I’m cool — man, is he going to be disappointed.
Molly said 238 days ago:
Sometimes I look at the Statcounter thing for my blog and I’ll notice that someone from place-to-which-I-have-no-known-connection checks my blog 25 times a day but never leaves comments. Who is that person? Should I make a dummy post trying to flush them out or just leave them to their voyeurism? There’s one in Jackson, New Jersey. Two in California. I guess it’s so surprising to me because my blog has no theme – it’s just me rambling and cussing and yakking about… me.
I had a new Twitter etiquette dilemma pop up this morning. I got a following notice from someone I sort-of know, which is fine except that I really don’t want to ‘follow’ this person back. I find this person insufferably boring and tediously predictable, twee, banal, and repetitive. Will he or she notice that I didn’t reciprocate the follow and be hurt? I just don’t want to clutter up my Twitter stream with his/her insipid and ridiculously frequent updates.
S.R. Wild said 238 days ago:
25 visits a day seems excessive for someone you know and especially someone you don’t know.
I get a lot of visitors from Europe and Asia for some reason. Most of the repeat visors are from places I recognize. Few leave comments anymore, except for you of course. My website is like a dingy alley that a few people look down while they’re walking by but few actually walk down it.
Personally, I unapologetically avoid insufferable boring people like the plague.
I had a twitter dilemma this morning too. I got an email from twitter saying that I was being followed by someone I did’t expect. I checked out their profile and they already removed me. Why would he/she go through effort of adding me, only to remove me? Perhaps he/she made a mistake.
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