I Really Don't Get Twitter.

Maybe it's just because I haven't been using it long enough, but I just have not been able to get into Twitter at all. I remember making my account in five minutes while I waited for the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in a movie theatre. The fact that I was able to do that is amazing technology at work by the way, but that's another post for another time.

Since that day, I've accumulated a whopping 26 followers, and have tweeted a whole 137 times. While I think this is a considerable amount of tweets, I know some people that would think it's just a days work. In fact, some of the people I follow seem to think 137 tweets is a one day quota. It's annoying as all get out, to be honest, but it's not nearly the worst thing I've come across.

I find myself getting constantly frustrated when I write out a well thought-out and articulated tweet, only to realize I'm 783 characters over the limit, and have to trash the entire thing. I also find tweets on my feed from people I don't even know. Upon further inspection, it's because somebody I do follow has "re-tweeted" this individual, probably because he/she was very touched by it, and wanted to share with everybody else, because "they will definitely care as much as I did". Half of the time, these re-tweets are from people telling them to re-tweet the message. my favorite is, "Re-tweet for Heaven, ignore for hell." I'm sure Jesus Christ is determining everybody's salvation on this one little message on a website that only a fraction of the world population uses, or even has access to. I sure feel bad for those poor souls who died in that 2006 year period of time before twitter was even around, they're really SOL on that whole Heaven thing, huh?

There are some things I like about it though. I like being able to follow my old high school sports account, so I can get updates on how badly Center Grove is beating Lawrence Central this week, and not have to text a friend who is still in high school (a number which dwindles every year after you graduate) to figure it out. Also, there will, every so often, be a tweet by somebody that cracks me up. All in all though, it's not really worth it to me to check it everyday. I'd much rather use Facebook, or maybe even call somebody. Call me old fashioned, I guess.