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Twitter makes me popular among strangers. If I, a normal person with nothing special to say can gain approx 5 followers a day, then imagine what it can do for your band etc. Seriously, I talk about what I'm doing/eating etc and mention horror movies once in a while and got 6 new followers today.
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What's the point of being popular among strangers though?
A band I like was giving away guestlist spots to every show on their tour to the first person responding to their messages on twitter so I signed up and followed them. The day of the St. Paul show, they decide to have their families from Texas join them and use up all their guestlist spots, thus no twitter contest for that date. Somehow in the course of the week I was on twitter and checking the bands messages, 3 people started following me which I just find fucking weird because I never even posted a single message. That was the extent of my experience on twitter.
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Well they are strangers, but they are strangers with specific interests. I post about webdesign, tea and horror movies. So I got a lot of bloggers who talk about those things following me. That might not be important to everyone but the web design people are of specific importance because we ask eachother questions, and I get a lot of help and advice etc. Then people who read their blogs/follow their twitter follow me, opening up more opportunities for my future career. Knowing people in the business and networking is actually a big deal to me and I find twitter a perfect outlet for that.
At the same time as doing that, I also use it to keep me updated about things going on in my town. I follow a feed for local gigs, another that posts the highlights from my local paper. I follow to hear the top rated stories on digg. I follow a few entrepreneurs like Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose because they inspire me. Other people who use twitter just to follow Ellen Degeneres or Oprah confuse me though. I don't care what Oprah eats for dinner.
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06-12-2009, 08:48 AM
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Well, the shit like Ashton Kutcher is definitely lame, but I am following David Lynch, James Gunn, Lloyd Kaufman, and a few other people of interest. They have interesting things to say and I respect their works...why wouldn't I want to follow them? The problem with people that follow Ashton Kutcher is not the issue of following a "celebrity", the problem is the fact that they like Ashton Kutcher enough to follow him.
If I weren't following David Lynch, I probably wouldn't know about his "Interview Project" that he has going on, which is really interesting. Likewise, James Gunn does all kinds of "worst remakes ever", "favorite gore flick" type stuff that is fun to do. Again, I ask...how is that any different than some of the games you guys play in this forum? It's all "time killer" shit at the end of the day. What you don't get about it doesn't make it lame, it just means you have other things of interest to kill your time. There are, unfortunately, a lot of people that MAKE it lame....but it is what you make of it. Follow people you actually have interest in and I guarantee you will find it more interesting.
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I'm a fan of twitter. I never really got into Myspace or Blogging because they take too much time. With twitter I don't feel like I have to commit to writing paragraphs since you only get 140 characters. I often put links to interesting or funny things to share with others and also to have a place to keep all those links for later. I don't follow many people, but people who have interesting things to say or interesting links. Really, the only famous people I follow so far is Dita Von Teese because I find her twitter interesting and glamorous, Ana Brett who is a Kundalini Yoga instructor, and Kevin Rose, a tea aficionado.
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