6 thoughts on “Twitter”

1. Create an account, set userpic to a red X, issue one tweet, find 718 people to follow who don’t automatically follow you back?

2. Set up a porn twitter and ghost people in hopes that they will follow you (in the polite, reciprocating way humans do (without checking who’s following them and blocking the undesirables).

3. You can also block followers, so you could keep it down to 0 if you really wanted to.

   Maybe this is an indication that the daft etiquette of following followers is losing its importance?

4. I think what I was getting at is our obsession with quantity over quality. A bit like collecting digital friends. In my view you just can’t follow this amount of information.

5. Following that many feeds means they’re treating it as a different kind of medium. It’s unlikely that they could read everything in their stream— there would never be any catching up— but they could sample the stream any time they felt like it to see what the most recent posts were. It’s not a way to keep up with friends (since you might miss something important), but it’d work for reading the gestalt of the moment.

6. That’s the classic signature of a Twitter spammer – they make one tweet, then follow lots of people to get their information distributed by Twitter’s ‘foo is following you on Twitter!’ emails, bypassing your spam filter…