Twitter Glitter

Stop the presses! Wait….are presses still a thing? Alright, stop the digital presses. Well I guess this technically is a digital press, so how about we keep this one going and stop all the others? Works for me.

Yesterday I took a leap forward into the social media fray by joining Twitter. I had always resisted it before, probably cuz I never really understood it. In comparison with Facebook, it’s always seemed inferior to me. For some reason though, on a complete whim I decided to check it out.

Come to find out….the Twitter glitter is legit. Who woulda thought? One of the things I find compelling is that you can tweet “at” someone, any-freaking one you want, and they’ll be notified and will likely read it. That boggles my primitive caveman mind! You mean to tell me it works even with celebs? Yes, even with celebs. You mean to tell me that ‘celebs’ is short for ‘celebrities?’ Yes, celebs is short for celebrities. You mean to tell me there are people who ask a question and answer it themselves? Isn’t that annoying?? Yes, there ARE people like that and yes…they absolutely are annoying. But that’s beside the point (the point itself is beside the point, but that’s beside the point too).

The beauty of being able to tweet at someone, and let’s just pick a celeb at random for a minute and say….Adam Carolla…..is that obviously he has no clue who you are or that you even exist, but you can tweet him and get his attention. Now in the Facebook world, that’s usually only reserved for your FB friends, unless it’s someone’s “celebrity page” and you decide to post on it, but it tends to get lost in the shuffle. Tweeting at them directly though, well….it’s been known to work and sometimes even elicit a response back. Now I have nothing specific to say to Adam Carolla, although I do enjoy his podcast from time to time. The world is just that much smaller when it comes to the Twitter Universe. I can tweet at Tom Hanks and tell him I just bought a toaster, or I suppose I could make a small mention of him and one of his movies I really like, buuuut….no. I think celebs get enough people gushing over them. What they really WANT is to know what random people are doing, what they’re eating, or where they’ll be vacationing. In an odd way, it just makes them whole.

Truth be told, having another platform to get addicted to probably isn’t what I need right now, but once the new-car smell is gone and the honeymoon is over, I’m sure I’ll snap right back to my usually-stable self.

I did recently buy a new toaster though. Hey Tom!