Last updated 6 October 2011
Congratulations! You have a Twitter account, and somehow you have stumbled across my account. That follow button may look awfully tempting after you read over the past few pearls of wisdom that I’ve dropped onto the Internet. Before you click that follow button and regret it a few weeks later when I’m linkspamming or talking about abstract algebra, it’s best that you know what you’re getting yourself into. A page of tweets (or two, or three) rarely does anyone much good. So what are you getting yourself into, anyway?
Wrimos, you should make your way over to this page in the next few days.http://www.nanowrimo.org/birthdaycard
First, I direct tweets at people a lot. This means that while it looks like I tweet a lot, you may not see a lot of them for awhile–unless, of course, we happen to follow several of the same people. If you know me through NaNoWriMo, this is not impossible and in fact may be the case. I’ve jumped into several conversations with other Wrimos in my Twitter circle, and they’ve jumped into conversations that I was having because we share followers.
That’s it, iTunes. I am this close to quitting you. Goodnight.
I tweet a lot of links. Honestly, I probably tweet more links than anything else. You’ll probably learn something interesting or want to gouge your eyes out with a spork, or at least wonder where on earth I find my material. Thankfully, I do not tweet every single link that goes into my Delicious account because if I did, at least twenty more tweets would show up on my stream outside of my own accord, and that would annoy even me. Why not? There’s already far too much feed pollution going on with everyone linking their Twitters and Facebooks and Tumblrs and blogs and what have you, and it is time to stop that nonsense. I don’t even tweet every single post I make here–just the particularly poignant ones, like possibly this one.
Some days my tweets will be more interesting than others. What determines that? It’s a complicated formula that involves how interesting my day is, what’s on my mind, my mood, my whereabouts, and the phase of the moon. There’s a similar formula that calculates how many tweets I’ll make in a given day that uses similar variables. In short: it varies a lot. I tweet a lot when I should be doing something else, and sometimes I’ll go nearly a day sans update. Some things just aren’t worth a Twitter update. No, I do not need to broadcast every single aspect of my programming progress to the world unless it’s spectacular in some way. Be grateful.
I livetweet things on occasion. Not often, but it does happen. The last time it happened was with the national spelling bee finals. The time before that was something Apple-related, not because I’m an Apple fangirl, but because I knew I’d be hearing all about it in the tech blogs I read, so I may as well get the news firsthand. In case you’re wondering, I’m not an Apple hater, but I do use Linux. That should tell you a lot. However, when I do livetweet, I try to keep it interesting. Well, except for the spelling bee. Then I just do whatever I want.
It’d be a good idea to know what I like to talk about, isn’t it? After all, my Twitter profile (at the moment) says “Writer. Math geek. Grammarian. Internetologist. Triviac. Nerd.” This is pretty accurate, but that’s not all I talk about. I’ll talk about anything. Between October and December, I talk about NaNoWriMo a lot, and in March and April I chat a lot about Script Frenzy. Current interests are a popular topic, and they tend toward the geeky and techy. Be warned.
Oh my, RSS has finally caught up with Facebook. This will be interesting.
If I could keep up with all my followers, I would! I want to, even, but keeping up with everyone who follows me would be an impossible task these days. Thanks to wanting to do other things besides stalk Twitter all day, I don’t follow everyone. However, if you look interesting, there’s a chance that I’ll follow you. I would try to define interesting, but that usually depends on my mood on a given day. Sometimes it just depends on what you’ve been tweeting lately, which is why I’m writing this in the first place! I do go through my followers list now and then and see who I’m not following back; maybe I just finished trawling through my Twitter feed and didn’t want to add anymore because of that. That’s part of the beauty of Twitter, though: you don’t have to be mutual followers, and we can still interact. I still read all my mentions, so chat away!
Convinced yet? Scared off? Follow away.
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