Thursday, April 28, 2011

Yes! That CAN be my next tweet

OK. So, I don't think I've made much of a secret of the fact that I just can't get into Twitter. I can't. Unless I'm staring at it 24/7, I feel like I'm missing everything that's going on. And, I don't like trying to figure out what people have responded to me about which tweet. It's just all so very exhausting. Facebook puts it all so neatly in its own little comment thread, with pretty little notices to tell you who commented about what. So pretty. So OCD. I don't care if it means I'm not young and hip. I'm a Facebook girl.

But, I do feel Twitter guilt. Like, if I just tried harder, I could make my relationship with Twitter work. (Wait. Am I in an abusive relationship with Twitter?!) So, when I saw the link to "Yes. That can be my next tweet." I was sold. Please, all-knowing website, tell me what to tweet. Then Twitter won't feel so used by me just putting links to my blog posts up there.

It told me this:
Ahhh. shucks. thanks so much! AND being scolded. by my car. i've opened the house. i hate that!
(Ummm. Should this all be one tweet? If so, I hope I've learned my lesson about opening the house to the self-righteous car. But, then. It looks like I have. And, I wonder what I'm so humbly thankful for? Not the car. That's for sure.)

So, that can't be right. I tried again:
Well that's a Snowman That Keep Me Up at the radio. hope you should move.
(This isn't getting any better. Now it seems English has become my second language.)

Again:
The what a warning. sorry. my car make me it's more fun with me it's more fun with the full face = the.
(And, now I've suffered a full break with reality. Or a stroke. But, at least it seems to be "fun." But, the car again. Why does Twitter want to keep talking about my car? It's a five-year-old Hond Pilot, Twitter. Let it go.)

And, finally:
Oh. My compulsion is 11 days before Halloween. Is this "twitter" thing EVER on?! Who Taught Her - The Johnsons.
(I believe that about sums it up. But, might I warn everyone to steer clear of me on October 20th. Compulsions are not to be taken lightly, people.)

Or this:
Well. I don't know which direction to talk about it up here?! wait. there's PIZZA.
(That's always my reaction to pizza.)

Anyway. What were we talking about? Did someone say, "pizza?"


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Bahahahah! I tried it and it just kept giving me variations of the word 'start.' START. Start! Start?
1 reply · active 726 weeks ago
well then, what are you doing here?! you probably better go get started!
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Hmmm. How about just your normal funny banter!?!? You don't need someone to tell you what to tweet (especially someone speaking in tongues).

And if you don't like to tweet, well then don't tweet. But do not, whatever you do, just tweet blog posts. Tweeting just to tell me you blogged is bad twitter manners (or, some would say, spamming). Or so I'm told.
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3 replies · active 726 weeks ago
*gasp* i would NEVER want to have bad manners. i might as well be typing in all caps!

really... this news just makes me want to delete my twitter account altogether. :(
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So sorry to be the bearer of bad news. : |
i'm thinking of killing the messenger. ;)
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You know, if you use Tweetdeck, there's a place on each @ reply where you can click "in reply to..." and it shows you what tweet they responded to. Just sayin'. There are solutions to your problems! Do not deny the love of Twitter!
1 reply · active 726 weeks ago
tweetdeck tweetdeck tweetdeck! ok. FINE. i'm checking out tweetdeck... (please read that in your best, brattiest teenage girl voice. thanks.)
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Someone else wrote about this the other day and I was (and of course still am) loving it!! Cars and pizza, what else do you need on Twitter?!? I still have yet to surrender to the power of the tweet. I prefer to pretend I am an 80 year old who has never used a computer. Those danged contraptions!
1 reply · active 726 weeks ago
you make me feel much better about myself, lindsey - and, honestly, make me want to delete my twitter account THAT MUCH MORE!
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I'm really with you on the worth of Twitter. It is the first technology that makes me feel old, simply because I have so little interest in it despite it being the current big thing. I can see where it has a limited range of useful applications. For people interested in following a specific team/celeb/company, it serves as a friendlier and cheaper version of a text blast. For scattered groups, it can be a good way to coordinate (as shown in Iran and Egypt). I have my Twitter hooked up to my diet/exercise app so that it becomes a web-accessible log of my workouts, but that's really only of interest to me, probably.

There's the germ of a good idea in it, I just haven't really seen anything that justifies the mania over it. The signal-to-noise ratio is too low - every potentially useful, funny, or interesting Tweet is lost in a cloud of updates about where people ate lunch or links to articles that I will never, ever read.
1 reply · active 723 weeks ago
"signal-to-noise ratio" is the BEST description of why it bugs me! oh well, maybe we can push each other's wheelchairs back over to FB, gramps
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