Wednesday, March 23, 2011

I'm afraid of twitter

Twitter scares me.

I went to the twitter webpage to see what it's all about. There were no instructions. I don't understand all the @s, RTs and #s. I am sure they mean something, but I wouldn't know what.

And how do I know who to follow? What if no one wants to follow me? Then I will just be sad. And lonely. And wondering what the hashtags are for.

I am afraid that my husband will mock me for joining twitter.

And someone already has the handle I want- "eringirl." WTF? How did she get the same nickname as me? Can we take to the twitter and get my name back? I DO know how to organize angry blog mobs*, so really, she should be afraid.

Annnnnnnnnnd I might just have spent the last two years mocking people with a twitter and now I am afraid that I want one.

So there.

Ok all you twitter and non-twitter people alike... chime in. What should I do?

Also, I break all the rules we learned in elementary school about never starting sentences with "and" or "but."
I do it all the time. I win.

*Kim, did you write about this on your blog?! I tried to find something to link it to haha

9 comments:

  1. So far, this is what I gather about the twitter:

    It's only fun if people tweet with you. One day, I spent a couple hours on there, and all of a sudden people wanted to follow me. And so I followed them. And now, sometimes we tweet. Or twat. Whatev.

    Now, I don't know what I did that made people want to follow me. I'm guessing that I was tweeting with Jess, who already had her Twistas {I wish I could take the credit for that term, but no}, and so they all wanted to find out who the hell I was. And now, those are pretty much the only peeps I tweet with.

    But sometimes I feel like the uncool kid and try to tweet with people and they don't tweet back. Which then makes me sad and reminds of high school.

    The @s are just people's handles, RT is retweeting, which I ONLY do if someone said something that I feel MUST be sent to my tens of followers, and occasionally I use hashtags to punctuate my post. Or make sense of it.

    For example:
    Auto-play music. #ReasonsWhyIUnsubscribeFromYourBlog

    I went to the store at 10pm to get ice cream. #thisiswhyimfat

    Yes, Brandon will mock you. Oh well.

    If there is an ErinGirl, you can be @TheOriginalErinGirl or @TheFunnierErinGirl.

    And, as you know, I, too, construct my own rules of grammar.

    No, I did not give that Krazy any airtime on my blog.

    Wow. I can't wait to hit "post comment" to see how long this comment will go down. I wonder if it will go the end of your blog list. {Which, BTW, why do you have TWO blog lists?}

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  2. Kim... you said twat... at this point in my very long day i find that so humorous that i actually LOL'ed. Thank you. I needed that.

    Erin. If you get a twitter, I will follow you. Well, wait. I will check in to see what you have to say since i do not currently twat...er.. tweet.

    Much Love,
    Liz

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  3. I won't make fun of you for using twitter. I will just fear losing my wife to one more social media outlet. Also I think you will need to refer to it as the twitter machine henceforth.

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  4. I tweet! It's mostly for, well... exactly what it's supposed to be for. Social networking, which is really important in the art (and blogging) world, or so I hear.

    I started my Twitter account this month, and admittedly, I'm still figuring it out. Slowly. But I guess it's fun for me to post updates whenever I feel like it, and then it's fun being able to go back and see what I was doing or when I started a project or whatever.

    As for the social part, I've got 15 followers... woohoo, right?! Right?! I don't know. Haha. There's a link to my blog on my Twitter profile, so I guess I can only hope that I'm directing more traffic to my blog (and Beverly's blog when I write articles for them).

    So far? I'm neutral, but I simultaneously hope and dread that Twitter will win me over...

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  5. I have a twitter account and I like it more for the entertaiment side of it. Not to mention it is a great tool when traveling. I won a $50 gift certificate from Marriott. We used it on one of our short trips. We have got discounts or deals when we went to Vegas.

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  6. i do it and i'm kind of new. so i don't have many friends on there and it's kind of boring because of that. also i only really tweet what i'm eating and who cares? hahaha.

    but if you get on i will follow you, and vouch that you are the way cooler eringirl.

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  7. I didn't think it would be that great, but I joined it to see what all the fuss was about. If you don't take it too seriously it's a lot of fun! @ is how you talk to someone directly (tagging them in a tweet) and RT is re-tweeting something. # plus a word is a hashtag - you can click on those and see any tweets anyone's ever written about that topic.

    I say do it! I've been on for several months and sometimes I don't understand it but it can be fun, and I know a lot of moms who get good ideas/advice on there if that's something you're interested in.

    If you do it tell us so we can follow you!

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  8. I'm totally with you erin!!! Twitter freaks me out because no matter how hard I try I cannot figure it out. (Kim - thanks for your advice, it helped!) Good luck! (And I like Kim's handle suggestions!)

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  9. Kim, well said.
    Erin, once you "speak" the language, you'll be fine. I love it. it makes one place that i can follow people, get news, and funny stuff. twitter unlike facebook, forces people to be a bit more concise.

    if you want followers, being online helps, yes, but also being aware of when you post your public posts... #privatedefined

    They have also made it easier lately, but there are still people who have different accounts for different subjects, just like people have many blogs. I like it, and just found out that I can follow people on my "google reader"!

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