Keeping up with the twitter.

I’ve recently uploaded the twitter app onto my new iphone. Before, I was browsing and twittering occasionally at my desk. I am now officially hooked.
Twitter can be funny, a great source for stories, (some boring tweets), and social interaction for wasting away spare time. It can also be intimidating. Some of the the twitterers I follow are so damn smart. Their sharp, sometimes barbed comments sparkle delightfully on my tweetline. Take @Rubygold who tweets up a storm. This morning he quipped, “6969 please nobody else follow”.
Since that tweet he has more followers.
Simon Pegg, that English tv chap, has more than a million followers. Now I mention Simon not because I am that keen on his tweets – there is too much marketing of his work going on – but because he has written a wonderful piece on tweeting for New Statesman. That same issue which features Hugh Grant’s piece, The Bugger, bugged, about his secretly taped chat with Paul McMullen. McMullen is one of the hacks who have “blown the whistle on the full extent of phone-hacking at [News of the World]“.
Jemima Khan guest-edited this issue of New Statesman and focused on freedom of information and free speech.
Back to @simonpegg. He writes about how followers are found. Of course consistently tweeting will get you a following of sorts. Then entering the twittersphere with an established celebratory status will get you immediate sign-ups. But says Simon “”followership” must be earned and even if you are a known quantity, not bringing your A-game to the t(w)able can retroactively damage your credibility in the real world. The offender is demythologised, revealing the mundanity at his/her core and as such is unceremoniously “unfollowed”.”
So when you lose a follower know that you need to up your game. Be cleverer. Consistently tweet 140 clever, artful words.
And if you’re not up to it, know that at least your family loves you.