I am Now a Member of the Twitterati So Tweet Away
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I have just formerly joined the ‘twitterati’ and created a Twitter account. I have no idea why really. Bored I suppose. British Prime Minister Cameron sometime ago stated on a radio show when asked about Twitter’ that “Too many twitters make a twat.” Caused a bit of a stir at the time did that.
Whilst creating my account I was encouraged to ‘follow’ other twitterers. Names were suggested and, not having the patience to wonder why I couldn’t just create an account and get around to following people at my leisure I complied and am now ‘following’ amongst others, comedians Jimmy Carr and Alan Carr – not related, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, John Cleese and several twitterers regarding my football team Oldham Athletic.
I’ve made a couple of ‘tweets’. One saying ‘Happy Birthday’ to America and another congratulating Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party who I am also following, for his excellent performance at The European Assembly where he suggested that they were behaving not unlike the old style Soviet Union. Marvellous stuff!
Actually I must look and see whether MMA has a Twitter account. Rather bad form if they have and I don’t follow that eh?
My Twitter Account is under the name Norman Rampart and is so for two reasons. Firstly I’ve grown rather fond of Norman in a way and secondly, if I tweet whilst enjoying one too many Buds Norman can take the flack! 😉
I’ve read a few tweets and, up to now, can’t really see the point. Simon Pegg, who I admire greatly as an actor, tweeted about attending his child’s sports day. Fair enough I suppose but I’d rather he tweeted about his next movie to be honest. John Cleese seems to be going on about the Monty Python ‘Silly Walk’ of beloved memory – I’m not sure why I didn’t really follow up what it was about.
The thing is, amongst the myriad of internet methods of ‘saying your thing’ such as ‘Blogger’ and ‘WordPress’ and so forth, Twitter, to me, seems the most banal and generally boring. People actually ‘tweet’ what they had for breakfast. I will try and contain myself from responding ‘get a life’ if at all possible. Of course, if anyone says anything offensive, obnoxious, controversial or whatever then it will immediately become a far more interesting place.
Behave Rampart!
Another very strange occurrence is that I am now being ‘followed’ by three fellow ‘twitterers’. I say ‘followed’ but it almost feels like ‘stalking’ to me. Who are they? Why are they following me already when all I’ve tweeted is ‘Happy Birthday America’ and ‘Well done Nigel’!
One of my ‘followers’ is a radio and TV presenter who I’ve never heard of. The second a singer who I’ve never heard of – although I just watched a You tube video of him and he’s quite good. The third is some organisation called The Carroll Trust or something and waffles on about lots of money in Barbados. No idea why they should want to even know me let alone follow me. Perhaps they think I’ve won the lottery or something. Distinctly odd.
That’s Twitter all over if you ask me. Distinctly odd. Actually, come to think of it, I might fit right on in then!
Right. Tally Ho! Here we go! Let’s cause Twitter mayhem and have some fun!
Mmmmmmmm? – who to upset, annoy and / or offend first and get the party started. Any thoughts? 😉
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So you have caved and joined the twits that tweet Norman.
Are you not a tweeter Jess?
Oh hells no. No book of faces or twitter for me. I’ve got enough real life time sucks, without adding online ones.
You would LOVE the book of face. Trust me.
Well I’ve often been called a twit…well, in all honesty rather more than that – so I thought ‘What the hell is all this Twitter thing about then?’ and went to find out.
Sadly I had to join to find out.
As a result I can confirm it’s a sort of make believe land were people who clearly have little life away from their computers spout rubbish.
I have discovered, however, that if you ‘tweet’ something insulting or offensive or obnoxious you might get ‘trended’ whatever that means.
My sole aim is to get ‘trended’ if only in order to fathom out quite what that means.
Therefore, in a spirit of investigation, I intend to offend, insult, irritate and generally piss off ‘twitterers’ everywhere as soon as I can come up with something that will do one or, preferably, all of the above.
Having said that, it is such a boring place it may take me several months to actually bother….
I will though. Eventually. Trust me. I’m from Oldham 😉
Did you notice that I followed you? My Twitter name is: madmikeamerica. That’s right. No “s”
Gotcha!
One needs to be careful, of course, about that T word. It means something quite different in the US.
But I agree. Twitter is for twits.
I twit. I mean tweet 🙂
Sorry GG…You know me, I’m such a twa….oops 😉
I’d suggest the religious reich but perhaps that is too easy a target for someone with the wit and charm you demonstrate on here.
I have never been on either twatter or Face Book. I see that they are both banal, boring, and apparently, untrustworthy. That’s a given after the recent revelations about FB.
Wit AND charm??? Good grief! Can we turn gay together? 😉
…the above is intended as a joke by the way and in no way is intended as offensive to gay people as I have many gay friends and if it is then I didn’t write it and somebody has hacked me….
I must do an article on ‘saying the wrong thing in innocence’…we must all have done that eh?!!