Twerps.

A lot of people are on Twitter.   Like, A LOT.  There’s a lot of people on Facebook but it’s different.  You can’t just… follow someone on FB.  It’s more of a process, requiring a bit more, well, knowledge of who people are that try to request your friendship.  

But, not Twitter.  No, in Twitter, anyone can follow anyone.  Sure, you can block people and stuff, or unfollow as the case may be, but still, for a minute it looks like you have WAY more followers than you do.  Then it just turns out that it’s a spammer, but hey, it’s a follower.

Enough about followers, let’s talk about people that are on Twitter.  Right?  Celebrities?  News anchors?  News networks?  Products?  Authors?  Bloggers?

I think it’s safe to say that EVERYONE is on Twitter, but that kind of makes it not cool.  Like Ashton Kutcher…?  

And, what’s up with trending topics?  Who else is sitting there wondering why in the world “Chuck” is a trending topic.  Now, while these trending topics can sometimes be helpful, like when Wolverine came out, all I had to do was check out the trending topic to know that I didn’t want to pay big money to see it.  The problem comes when the spammers come on there.  I’m not sure exactly what they intend to do because all they post is EVERY trending topic… no link, no nothing, just trends in a stream of non-sensical organization.

A while back, I tried to start a game where you’d take at least 3 of the trending topics and try to make a sentence out of it.  Lasted about a day.  Then, I tried to get #ihateatt to trend because I figured most people did, but it didn’t work out (although, not so secretly, I hold hope my baby hashtag).  Lately, one of my Twitter friends (co-follower?) TremendousNews has been trying out random hashtags (a way of categorizing what you’re saying) to try to make a trending topic.  

It’s been fun, and if you’re anywhere near my actual website (I know there’s some subscribers out there.  I don’t know how you found the subscription page… but you’re out there.) you know that the latest of these has been #badquotes which is just an assortment of real or fictional quotes that are just, well, bad for some reason.

But people are taking this whole Twitter thing to the extreme with the replacement of the beginning of pretty much ANY word with “TW”.  Not only in writing, but in speech.  I think I heard Dwight Howard the other night say something like “Just want to give a shout out to all my tweeps.”  I’m sorry, but if ever there was something to make you look and sound like a complete idiot, doing this is it.  I’ve heard such a bunch of iterations of the same idea.  Tweople, tweeps… it’s ridiculous.

So, to recap:  I’m on Twitter.  If you didn’t know, it’s okay, you just don’t come to the website to see my Twitter stream on the side of my page…  It’s cool.  Don’t worry about it.  However, if you haven’t heard of Twitter before, I don’t understand what you’re doing on the Internet because, seriously, everyone on TV has a Twitter account.

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