I love Twitter, I still love Twitter after months of making a complete fool of myself in front of a crowd of people I’ve never met. I love the democracy of it. I’ve met lots of famous people. I’ve even written to a couple.
I DM’d (that’s Deep & Meaningful Messaging for the uninitiated) Mia Freedman of Mamamia & Cosmo fame. She was well up for it. She didn’t even bother wasting 140 characters, she wrote back with an endearing comment on her site. ‘If you and what’s his name don’t stop snarking at each other I’m going to ban both of you’.
See, that’s what I mean about the caring and sharing attitude here on Twitter. Another of my fave celeb twitterers is Dave Hughes. I have to tell you that he and I are like that, (crosses fingers), you know, like bro’s.
I was concerned about Dave’s seeming lack of attention to his many followers, so I wrote, ‘do you read all your tweets, blah blah blah blah blah blah…’ I used up about 1,000 tweets of 140 characters each, but I think I got the point across. He replied, ‘yes’. The rapport is amazing.
See what I mean, it’s an equal playing field here on Twitter. Superstars and celebs mixing with sychophants and suckers, and also really nice, genuine and funny people as well.
However, I do have one beef with Twitter, and that is why does Twitter insist on telling everyone where I tweet from…it’s embarrassing to see every tweet underlined with ‘from Atari Gameboy in his stinky bedroom’…
why can’t I overide that to say, ‘from my Porsche, on my new iphone’
or, ‘on my yacht, moored in Rio Di Janero harbour, on my wi-fi Apple Schmucko laptop connected to my Swiss bank’….
or ‘from Megan Fox’s penthouse, eating strawberries off her tummy & drinking Moet’
I mean, why can’t Twitter be more user friendly….
3 responses so far ↓
fender4eva // July 2, 2009 at 2:45 am |
Stop whinging, Gig! If you didn,t have Twitter, you wouldn’t have been able to chat up all these beautiful girls.Virtual flirting costs nothing , and you might even get a result !
Benita // July 3, 2009 at 8:51 am |
And yet you failed to mention that you (and your sidekick Fender) are possibly the most popular blokes in our little Mamam gang…hang on…you’re the only blokes in the Mamam gang…
And don’t knock Atari! I am the proud owner of an Atari 2600 console complete with about 100 games…I am clearly not a child of technology….
Benita // July 5, 2009 at 4:10 am |
Haha wouldn’t it be funny if Twitter suddenly developed attitude and opinion of its followers…as well as acknowledging to the world that you were being tweeted from “Atari Gameboy in his stinky bedroom”, twitter would helpfully add “which, by the way, contains rude posters on the walls from his teenage years; a moth-eaten cat, rescued from the restaurant downstairs; and the remains of a bbq meatlovers pizza, which is currently being attacked by aforementioned cat.” Twitter could be the Virtual Big Brother of our lives, offering us helpful hints and advising others of our state of mind and life crises…”Tweeted whilst applying far too much makeup…you look like mutton dressed as lamb, bitch!!” Or, “Tweeted from the penthouse apartment of her 20-year-old toyboy, who is only sleeping with her to get back at her daughter”…sounds fabulous, don’t it??