I had a guy the other day send me an @reply on Twitter at my ew4n account. Here’s what it said:
@Ew4n Unfollowing.
I am continually mystified and delighted at the manner in which people use Twitter, I really am.
If you’re viewing my output on to Twitter as utter arse, there’s an unfollow button.
I am certainly annoyed when people send total bollocks into my Twitterstream (“Just having breakfast. Super.”). Rubbish like that doesn’t help my day and I am wholly unwilling to, as colleague Ben Smith puts it, ‘overlook it’. I have to read and process every single Tweet that I’m looking at.
Here’s how it works:
I read the person’s name or handle. I read their text. It’s ONLY when I have read, processed (and hopefully understood) their message that can I can ascribe value to it. Annoying. But this is how it goes. Twitter is currently binary. You either follow someone. Or you don’t. It’s that simple.
But if you’re totally flucked right off with my twitter stream, there’s no need to send me a public reply to tell me you’re unfollowing.
All that does is focus my razor sharp attention on you. If that was the goal — and I’m sure there’s an element of that — then if I didn’t think you were an arse two minutes ago, I most certainly think you are now.
The real thing that mystifies me is that by *publishing* your ‘unfollow’ message — to all your followers — you give me instant advertising. You’re saying ‘I’m not following him’ — at which point all your followers have to have a wee look and make a value judgement as to why. About 5-10 minutes after the Tweet, I had a heck of a lot of people add me as a result.
Weird.
I guess we never can understand the depths of people's silliness, or idiocy around this medium.. I guess if they literally let anyone on, then anyone's at liberty to come along and say and do the craziest things 😉 Unfortunately! The only thing you can do is block people who completely annoy you.
You’re right. That is quite strange. If you want to drop someone, just drop them. You can always pick them up again at a later date when you’re more in the mood for their style of communication. But announcing it… Just plain weird!
However Ewan, I do think that Ben it right.
Just overlook it. Nobody is going to be inside your frame of reference the whole time, and would you really want that anyway? I find the idol chatter quite therapeutic at times. Mix in the ”Just having breakfast. Super.” Tweets with the “Just having a breakthrough in superconductors” Tweets and you’ve got yourself a nice broad range of human experience.
http://twitter.com/TheCreativeLife
So why are you annoyed? You know this is type of negative-criticism-free-advertisement type of material. Like many celebrities who have rumors about their injury or something (which is usually false news) to make free advertisement.
You actually need people to be more “rude” for gaining more traffic 😛
Who was it? Name and shame!
i suspect it was a mistake. not everyone does things right. esp the leagues of new tweeters
chill!
Who was it? Name and shame!
i suspect it was a mistake. not everyone does things right. esp the leagues of new tweeters
chill!
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