So yesterday, apart from sorting the reincarnation of this blog, I discovered the wonderful world of twitter.
It may seem that I am the last person in the world to join, but actually the whole "phenomenon" has rather passed me by. I tend to only get in to things when my friends/family/colleagues introduce me, but none of them are really "in to" tweeting. Facebook and youtube and Perez Hilton yes, but not twitter.
So, in an attempt to get some sort of readership for LeoBlog 2.0 and because I was deathly bored, I set myself up as a twit in the twitter universe.
It’s all very simple and nice until it comes to the part where you have to “add followers.” As I’ve already said, no one I know “tweets” if that is the right word to use, so there was no point checking my email contacts. Most of the “recommended followers” I hadn’t heard of or had no interest in following at all. Somehow, after much clicking, I found my way to a “public timeline.”
From what I can work out, the privacy settings on each person’s account allow you to appear on a public timeline for anyone to add and follow you. Looking down the list at people who had tweeted a matter of seconds ago, there seemed to be a fair bit of spam. Essentially I was looking for:
1. A real person, not a spambot.
2. Someone who was fairly human and eloquent (as eloquent as you can be in 140 characters)
3. Someone with a nice profile picture. Yes, ok, I’m shallow. So sue me.
I scrolled down a little and found someone who seemed to fit the bill. A Tweep (is that the word?) called @MrTrev. So I followed MrTrev and said hello. And that’s where it all started. From MrTrev, I found someone else who seem to fit and added them (@AlexLJ) and through her a whole range of other people.
It seems that the charm of twitter is conversations with people you have never and probably will never meet, and you get introduced to these people through other similar people, and so on and so on till infinity. I suppose it’s a little like virtual speed dating, only without the constant feeling that you’re being assessed for the potential of a quick one night stand with a married, middle management man called Bert.
That’s my assessment of the situation anyway. Hardened tweeps will no doubt correct me – and I hope they do. Im always keen to learn.
Until next time, tweet me
@LeoBlog
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