Some goof called "inspiredwriters" is following me on Twitter. Mindlessly, since she has the word "writers" in her handle, I follow her back.
She sends me a direct message (these can be generated automatically in case you can't guess): "thank you for following! I hope that you like me are passionate about writing, art, creativity and personal development! check out the coolest thing ever! 🙂 http://bit.ly/OuOnD"
More exclamation points!
So I respond: But to respond, no I'm not "passionate" about writing, and only occasionally am passionate about the things I'm writing about. As for art, creativity and personal development—those who talk about having "passion" for such things in the abstract are talentless, humorless bores. (Like you!)
Oh, and that "coolest thing ever"? I thought you had found motion picture footage of the actual sinking of the Titanic sinking, or some cool shit like that.
No such luck.
Twitter is a filthy, third-world backstreet filled and filling further with such creeps and desperate nuts.
Amen! I’m becoming more irritated with and less interested in Twitter with each passing tweet.
To be fair, I do occasionally find a link to an interesting blog, online article or other useful bit of information, but they are few and far between. I rarely tweet because I don’t want to be as much an irritation to my followers as many of those I follow are to me.
Maybe I’ll just sit over here in the corner until all of this shakes out.
I tweet, partly because I hope others find my tweets fascinating … and partly because I know that, like me, they’re not reading my tweets unless they’re bored off their ass anyway.
That’s nothing. Wait until you get followed by a self-proclaimed “twitsultant”. Funny, yet sad at the same time. And no, I am not making this up.
Spray Adaptogens (SprayAdaptogens) is now following your tweets on Twitter.
Hey David, were you behind the hack attack that shut down Twitter for several hours this morning?
In one of the media stories on the issue there was a quote from a New York PR manager who said she felt “completely lost” with Twitter out because it “gives me all the breaking news I need.” Really? You’re in PR and your single source for “news” is Twitter? Ummm…okay…
Completely lost without Twitter, completely clueless with it.
This is why I fear for our profession.
I fear there are a lot of Twits.