Twitter is bad for your ego
It is of general knowledge that Twitter is hard to understand. Why is it so hyped, when there’s so little to do? On Twitter, there is two things you can do to make it valuable for you: Be interested or be interesting. If you can’t be neither, there’s nothing left for you on Twitter. You can’t go on polishing your profile endlessly, nobody looks at it more than once anyway. You can’t spend your time taking tests of what type of a flower you are or which movie you should see next. You can’t spend your time posting links to your friends who will comment and “like” them out of responsibility toward you. On Twitter, you have to get to the point and get it there fast or you’ll sink into the oblivion in no time. Frankly, even if you do get to the point fast, you still sink into oblivion quite fast, and that is bad for your ego. That’s why you have to be interested in what others are saying too, in order to “get” twitter. And you have to know what interests you, and what type of people interest you, or you will randomly follow people who really are not interesting to you. Would I be so bold as to suggest that Twitter is a tool for smart people with a healthy ego..? (Not counting celebs and companies into that though.)
What people with a fragile ego will do to attempt to fool themselves into believing that they are interesting, is to follow a lot of people hoping to get a follow-back, especially those that use auto-follow tools if they spot one, and seek ways to “get thousands of followers automatically.” I doubt very much that those functions have much to do with practicality, but a lot to do with ego stroking. (I’m sure they explain it to themselves that they are doing it for business.) They are for people who don’t think their tweets will get them far enough fast enough for their own liking.
It is also quite an ego-bashing idea to believe that people would actually be interested in what you are doing right now. It won’t take you long to realize that NOBODY gives a damn about what you had for breakfast (unless you are a celebrity) and you will decide that you “don’t get” Twitter. Some people might have decided before trying it out that they don’t get Twitter, because who in their right mind would be interested in the daily activities of millions of nobodies around the world?
Twitter needs to be redefined so that people actually know what to expect of it. To me it’s a tool to broadcast 5 types of messages: Headlines, questions, one-liners, aphorisms and celebrity updates. Everything else is pretty pointless to put on Twitter. I admit I may have missed a type or two, if you can think of something else that is useful on Twitter, please do mention them in the comments!
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I’m boring and I think lots of other people are boring but yet I still like twitter
A) You’re not boring. Second B) there must be interesting people on there if you find Twitter interesting, because, after all, Twitter is made up by people who post content that isn’t boring, right?
Agree with you! I just can’t use twitter for more or less the same reasons! Your comments on social media (including on FB) are very pertinent.
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Well, actually Vikas (nice to see you again btw) I use Twitter, but it took me a long time to understand what the point of it was. It is good, once you understand what it’s good for, but going into it expecting it to be a short worded diary is a wrong approach to it.
I read your popular post on Twitter after your this post and even enjoyed compared the then excitement with the present disillusionment!
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err. typo! compared is ‘comparing’!
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I mostly do a search for whatever jumps into my mind that day, I retweet a lot, I’m naturally curious of everything and anything ie. sticky beak and I guess I *like* the random thoughts of people out there
See, you fall into the category of “interested” even if you did find yourself boring. I’m just pointing this out, because I want to make sure you understand I’m always right!
Nice post. I have Twitter though I really don’t know why? Beats me… LOL! Kidding aside, I update my tweets every now in then, but most of them comes from twitterfeed, which in turn, comes from my blog.
Though I really don’t know if people actually visit my blog from Twitter…
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Twitter probably brings you traffic if you have good keywords in the first lines of what Twitterfeed updates. I use the service as well, in addition to “normal” twittering. It does bring me some traffic, especially when ever “twitter” is mentioned. :p
I don’t mean that you HAVE TO mention Twitter to get traffic, just as long you have keywords that are of interest, like “kidney failure”. But what really would bring you traffic would be a topic like “How Twitter has helped people suffering from a kidney failure”. :p
Oh, so that’s how it’s done… though since my blog is about kidney failure and dialysis, I really can’t think of a way to include twitter in my posts. You wouldn’t want to read: “Twitter recently suffered kidney failure and advised to go in dialysis treatment”, wouldn’t you? Hahaha… just kidding!
Thanks for that info though, now I have more comprehension on that matter.
Have a nice day!
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