I want to talk about Twitter. Why? As the title of the blog suggests, I have now been officially on Twitter for two years. I wrote about my first anniversary and with the publication of this blog, I would have made 1,214 tweets; and if I’m lucky, a few of them might be funny. Maybe.
A lot of things have happened over the past year. The Russia government on their Anti-Nazi crusade, invaded Ukraine, just like the Nazis did; inflation and CO2 levels are increasing, while crypto and my running speed are decreasing; Brexit is still failing; Ireland are the number one men’s rugby team in the world; and a photo of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way, was released.
This has left me with two questions: Within the past year, have I become a person of influence on Twitter? Let’s see, I don’t really discuss clothes, or food, or hairstyles. I listen to CDs, read manga, and have two children; which means money is what I used to keep in my wallet. Also my reading pile reproduces asexually, because it keeps multiplying. They just sit in my room taunting me, the bastards.
So, am I an influencer? Well, I’m not cool enough for YouTube, Tik Tok or Instagram; however I would love to influence people to buy books and socks. You can never have enough of either.
Oh, I forgot to clear the question up; the answer is no.
However, the second question concerns whether Twitter has taught this pizza loving, aging introvert anything over the past year? Let me count the ways.
1.) Having a new overlord in Elon Musk is interesting, if not entertaining.
2.) Twitter is still an echo chamber; but so is nearly everything else.
3.) It’s still fascinating looking at people’s responses, over the same piece of news.
4.) My skill at scheduling tweets is amazing!
5.) There are some extremely creative and talented people on this platform.
6.) I’m sitting on 13 followers, which means on average, I gain a new follower around every 93 tweets. Solid performance.
7.) I still laugh at some particular memes, which I then show my wife; whom explains that they’re not funny. She’ll then go to Facebook to show me funnier memes.
8.) It’s still mindboggling to me about the very small things on Twitter that can majorly offend people; however the stuff that needs people to be outraged on this platform, hardly gets a mention.
9.) I’m a big kid, because I love watching footage from the ISS, flying over countries; especially my own.
This of course takes us to something new I want to try. I don’t follow that many accounts on Twitter; mainly because I’m not cool enough to know what person or thing is hot to follow. However, I thought I would highlight a few of the accounts I do actually follow. The reason being; as I said before, there are some extremely creative people on this platform, and I want to throw some attention their way; not that they need any help from me.
For comedy, I would suggest five icons I follow:
These five are hilarious, but also very truthful in their own unique way.
For educational content, I’m being pedantic by grouping them into two different camps: education and science communication.
For education, you should visit:
These accounts provide top quality resources and information, and they are phenomenal.
For science communication, you need to stop and say hello to:
Richard Dawkins@RichardDawkins
I love science, so anytime any of these creators explain or present some information, I’m on it like Worf on prune juice.
And for the second to last entry, you really should check out, Massimo@Rainmaker1973. The sheer amount of tweets on this account are extraordinary, because of the high quality of the videos and information. I don’t understand how or where they get their information, but it’s amazing!
For the last entry, it sort of combines all of them:
Last Week Tonight@LastWeekTonight
For the time being, I’ll still be on Twitter for no other reason than if I quit, then I’ll have more free time. No more researching, writing and scheduling tweets for me! But that would mean I’ll have to do more jobs around the house, like fixing things, which I suck at. So, I’ll remain here posting boring tweets every day at 7am and 7pm UTC +12, and if I’m organised, maybe something else at a different time.
Thanks once again for reading, following and subscribing to Some Geek Told Me; it means a lot. Remember to walk your dog; watch a banned movie; stay away from Scorpio girls; and I’ll see you next week.
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