Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Follow Me, Follow You


This Twitter thing has completely taken over my life.  I find myself checking it at least five times daily, and I update pretty much every time.  Now, I tend to be verbose, and I have a little difficulty with the 140 character limit.  But, I follow all of these famous people, like some of my favorite artists, television programs, and writers.  I also follow my favorite President, Barrack Obama.  Now, to give my ego a false boost, President Obama follow me, too!  Of course, I follow Starbucks AND Dunkin Donuts (hope they don't find out ;)).  To my thrill, they both follow me, too.  Now, I'm hoping that Trent Reznor will come around. . .
Now, there is this whole Twitter-etiquette thing.  If someone follows me, then, I feel obligated to follow them.  Many of these folks have some quirky Twitters.  Some people have these inspirational messages they send to their followers.  Anderson Cooper just gives a link to his show's website.  Many people have Twitpics, which is kind of fun.  However, it's surprising how many Twitterers just share their usual daily routine, like, "I just took a huge crap, and it was awesome".  I use Tweetie, for the iPhone, which is pretty cool.  I can update and photograph crazy stuff I see in the world.  It was $2.99 well-spent.  Yesterday, I was reading Rolling Stone online while I was shoving my lunch in my face, and I saw a few stories about Trent Reznor's Twitter review of the new Chris Cornell album, and Chris Cornell's possible retort, which probably wasn't a retort at all.  Since I follow them both, I was on the front line of this breaking story.  Pretty cool. . .

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