How to make Twitter lame

Thursday 2 October 2008 - Filed under Journal

Contrary to most people, perhaps, I think it is the mundane nature of most twitter updates that makes it cool. People who try to make their Twitter feed “important” are the least interesting people to follow. The reason is — they misunderstand the medium. When I look at a tweats going by, I don’t want to be marketed to. If you are using Twitter to make people think you are cool, you’re doing it wrong. What I like about Twitter is seeing the long picture, built up tweat by tweat by the people I follow. I know when they build a shed or when they are crabby. Over time I get a view of people I wouldn’t otherwise get and I enjoy that. Carefully crafted career-oriented self-promotion, by comparison, is dull.

I’ll also unfollow you if you constantly send @reply tweats. You know most people are only hearing one side of the conversation so use it sparingly or at least make it interesting on its own. There are better channels for one-to-one conversation.

2008-10-02  »  lolife