I’ve been a twitter user for a little while now, and yes, it is addictive. You get used to posting all kinds of stuff as often as possible.
It’s especially addictive when people you have never spoken to start following you for no good reason! It’s the best, so thank you, all my followers.
What quietly bugs me about Twitter is that I wonder if by default, it is really a form of communication.
Plenty of twitter users just pump out the tweets as if they are a lone voice broadcasting to a world who clings to their every word.
As I was informed recently: “You’ve got it (Twitter) all wrong, you don’t hear from your followers, you hear from those you follow”.
This for me, seems wrong. I am not an egotistical evil genius so therefore am into Twitter only for actual communication – not for just pounding out what I’m doing with little regard for others.
I am all into following back my followers. If I am of interest to them, then we can be twitter friends as far as I am concerned.
Twitter takes a little effort if you want to consider it as a mini-social network. I have evenings where I feel like ‘getting myself out there’ and so concentrate on replying to people who have been tweeting and having a little chat.
There were some people I found on Twitter who I followed because they are the internet-famous giants. But for me, those guys can give me no personal contact – they are victims of their own social success. They couldn’t possibly interact with the sheer number of their followers. These sorts I stopped following.
To me, Twitter is all about making friends and networking. I specifically also like to befriend my fellow UK residents, especially if there are geographically near me.
Twitter has to be up close and personal. It’s all about interactive communication.