11.11.10
Why You’re No Good on Twitter
A post at Cryptome explains why most people, DD included, are no good on Twitter. There are less complimentary terms for its prime movers. But it’s all about celebrity and a Darwinistic application of it. The new boss is always the same as the old boss. And those at the top get all the spoils.
As much of an online paradise as Twitter is, it’s not *completely* free of the kinds of annoying behavior we see in the real world. High on the list are the sorts of adolescent posturing that social media in general make so easy — preening, name-dropping, ass-kissing, pandering, cliquishness …
Observations include:
It sometimes seems that there’s no utterance by a Name or celebrity that’s too trivial to warrant instant retweeting by dozens or hundreds of followers. (Yes, you could make the argument that the more followers someone has the more retweets they’ll get, but it’s clear that there’s often more than mathematics at work here. I’ve seen people ignore an interesting link tweeted by a relative nobody and then retweet that same link just a few minutes later when it was tweeted by a Name …
There are Names who have Twitter accounts that they’ve never used but still have hordes of followers–like [at]beyonce, who has never tweeted once but as of this writing is followed by eight hundred thousand very patient people. The day she gets around to tweeting “Hello,” the resulting retweets will probably bring down Twitter’s entire server farm.
Again here.