To Twit, To T'who.

Twitter.

I started using twitter, which I kind of like. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but that's probably because I'm a little bit simple.

However, it's interesting to follow celebrities, well-- most of the people on twitter are quasi celebrities. Real celebrities haven't got time to tweet. Real celebrities get their personal assistants to tweet for them.

There is one part I completely do not understand, however, and that is: Followers. On my first tweet, I had two. Literally within seconds. Then, I tweeted the next day, and one decided to fuck off.

Okay. So I tweet here and there, and on this particular tweet I get four followers, I guess it must have been comedy gold-- and once I tweet a picture, I get 20 views and two more followers.

Now, I have six. I don't know how these people are finding my tweets or my pics. I don't know what they're searching for to find these things... I don't know what is their motivation, and what's keeping them there. Not much, obviously... as yesterday's tweet killed my follow list to half: 'The nerdette in me wants a Google Wave Invite. However, the normal person in me wants to give myself a wedgie and steal my lunch money.'

I thought it was funny, but I guess three others didn't-- as they stopped following me. I don't get this. I mean, I wasn't even trying to alienate my follow list... yet. So, why follow me in the first place if you have no intention of... well, following what I say? I don't really care either way, but I do find it perplexing as to why people are so trigger happy on the follow button if they're going to suffer from follower's remorse two tweets later.

I think, partly, it's because they follow you hoping you'll follow them back, or to promote some lame scheme they have going on. But I haven't got an itchy trigger finger, so I don't really follow people I don't want to hear from.

Funny concept that, and yet... it works.

So please for the love of god, if you find me on twitter... and think I'm mildly amusing, only follow me if you... well, want to listen to my lame tweets. If you're going to remove me two days later, save yourself a couple of clicks and stop getting my damn hopes up, (fragile ego, me) and go browse someone else. :P

And as for the kind of people I follow, well I like funny interesting people. I know, it's a double standard, but that's the way this cookie crumbles.