I want to talk about Twitter. Why? Last week, I celebrated one year of posting on Twitter. I know, I know, thank you, thank you. Now why did I join Twitter in the first place?
That’s a very boring question, so I’ll give a very boring answer. In my total naivety or hubris, 1 I thought I could attract lots of people from the blog to Twitter, and vice versa. Wow, I have learnt that Twitter is tough. Like a school bully that steals your lunch every day, tough.
So after one year, and over 540 tweets later, what have I discovered about being on Twitter? These are my top 15 discoveries.
WARNING, there are spoilers, so read at your own caution.
1.) It’s very easy to fall into a rabbit hole of toxic waste containing disinformation.
2.) Reading someone else’s tweet thinking, “That was funny, I wish I had thought of it.”
3.) Before you realise it, you’re living in an echo chamber, reading about everything you believe is to be true.
4.) It’s fascinating looking at other people’s positive and negative responses, over the same piece of news.
5.) Someone liking or retweeting a tweet of mine, is strangely quite satisfying.
6.) Gaining a new follower, then losing them, less than 24 hours later, because you’re not what they thought you were.
7.) Playing a game with my wife, by reading out a tweet, and getting her to guess whom the tweet is about, or written by.
8.) It’s very easy to offend someone on Twitter, but I suppose that’s the point?!
9.) I probably spend far too much time writing tweets, when I could be sleeping.
10.) Never leave your Twitter page open, when your children are conscious.
11.) It’s a fine line between gaslighting and being a troll.
12.) Responding to tweets about hate, stupidity, and ignorance with humour, is far better than going into beast mode.
13.) There are some truly creative people in the world.
14.) Sometimes I’ll read a tweet and think, “Damn it, I never thought of it like that.”
15.) I am very grateful for every single person that follows me. That’s so sad!!!
If you are on Twitter and curious, I have the totally unoriginal name of Some Geek Told Me; if you are interested in following. I’m getting used to Twitter, but it’s taken some time to do it!
Anyway, I’m there every day for my 7 am (NZ Time) tweet, because, you know, it keeps me off the streets dealing comics in back alleys. Thanks for reading, and I’ll actually see you in two days, for a rare Wednesday blog post.
1 Please take your pick.
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