People are like sheep and have no brain. Granted, not all otherwise I would be one of them. But you can find all these sheep people loitering in one place: on twitter. What a bunch of twits they are. Maybe you understood by now that this post is not going to be about the praises of Twitter.
Can anyone tell me what is the attraction of Twitter? People just post random, stupid and useless short messages: I am eating a sandwich, just bought this or that, feeling bored now. No wonder they feel bored if they rely on Twitter to entertain themselves.
Contribution of Twitter?
What is the contribution of Twitter to society? What can we gain from it? I struggle to find answers. Someone can disseminate their message quickly and efficiently to the general public. But is there anything worth saying that will interest most people and in such few words? If it’s just a small group of people, why not just email them? Most people won’t find anything you have to say interesting, unless you do or you are someone famous.
Followers follow me
Enter Sarah Brown and Britney Spears, famous tweeters. Sarah Brown, as the wife of the previous UK Prime Minister, got a large number of ‘followers’ as they are called. What has she done? Hello, she is NOT the Prime Minister. And who cares if she is drinking wine or not? Well, it seems many people care. Get a life, you sad people.
How about Britney Spears? She’s supposed to be good at music, isn’t she? Well why not just give her a microphone or buy her CD? She’s not going to sing on Twitter, is she?
Recently there was an article in the news, the more conventional type, about how some celebrity followed a ‘normal’ guy from the UK whose few tweets were about cleaning his cupboard. Overnight, that ‘normal’ fellow became a celebrity on Twitter and gathered a large number of followers. What, just because he had a celebrity following him? Get a life again you sheep.
It seems if a few people, or a critical mass head onto a website, especially followers, everyone else will follow like sheep. Now marketers spam Twitter like there is no tomorrow because everyone is on there and they hope people will see there message.
Who are the sheep?
Well, the funny thing is that I don’t personally know anyone who uses Twitter. Sure, most of the people I know have Facebook but not a single one of them neither follows anyone on Twitter nor even has a Twitter account.
So who the hell are all these sheep then? Maybe I cried out too loudly and there are no sheep. The only sheep left on Twitter would be these marketers following each other, marketing their products to each other and following the celebrities when they get bored with their stuff.
Keep twittering sheep!*
*My deepest apologies to sheep of the grazing kind who can’t tweet (yet).
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