Social Media WTF? Twitter Peeps? God help us all.

Someone following our company Twitter feed posted this today:

GOOD MORNING twitter peeps....looking forward to an incredible week.Get a cup of Joe and let's roll !!!!!

Really, what the hell?

This is just talking to talk. It's not even that. It's some half-assed half-thought meant to seem positive and communicative. But mostly all it says about the twitterer is, "I don't have a God-damn thing worth saying to share, but this seems kinda positive and makes me seem like I have my shit together."

I want this person to have an incredibly shitty day.

Here's a thought, keep your nuggets of 'tude to yourself until you have something worth saying to say.

Like...if you hated people who Twitter useless bullshit. That's worth talking about.

Damn.

:dubious: I don't understand why you think Twitter is supposed to convey important thoughts. There's a character limit for a reason.

As an experiment one day I transcribed everything my five year old niece babbled as tweets.

It was very, very difficult to tell the difference between them and real tweets.

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Originally posted by Taumpy

:dubious: I don't understand why you think Twitter is supposed to convey important thoughts. There's a character limit for a reason.

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I have no expectations that anything important be conveyed, just that something at least somewhat worth reading might be...

Funny
Sad
Ironic

There's some brilliant stuff being tweeted, no question.

But this Twitter Peeps shit really depresses me.

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Originally posted by Zuul

As an experiment one day I transcribed everything my five year old niece babbled as tweets.

It was very, very difficult to tell the difference between them and real tweets.

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See, now this might make for good tweeting.

http://thegrammarvandal.files.wordpr...8/03/peeps.jpg

So Twitter is the same as the rest of the internet, full of shit. What's surprising here?

Thank God! She followed it up with a punctuation-free Bill Gates quote:

Bill Gates Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Whoa. Still taking this one in.

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Originally posted by Zuul

As an experiment one day I transcribed everything my five year old niece babbled as tweets.

It was very, very difficult to tell the difference between them and real tweets.

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You should have done this while you were still in command of that random chick's Twitter. :fishbeat:

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Originally posted by OneCentStamp

You should have done this while you were still in command of that random chick's Twitter. :fishbeat:

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Who says I'm no longer in command of it?

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Originally posted by Zuul

Who says I'm no longer in command of it?

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Ooh, Ed, you sounded like Dirty Harry just now! :o :D

I enjoy Twitter, but I find that the most useful thing about it is to follow my favorite blogs who tweet a link when they have a new entry.

Speaking of which, twitcleaner thinks I should stop following mellophant because it only posts links. Which I thought was funny.

I don't follow twitter, anyone's. Not because I'm against it or anything, I just haven't caught up to it yet (hey, why isn't anyone on AIM anymore?).

I thought that the jist of twitter was exactly what Olive was talking about about. Just a bunch of quickie snacks of updates to check out. Sometimes funny, sometimes even substantial, but mostly just stuff.

I feel like you're grouchy about people saying good morning and "what's up" just as a hello greeting.

I hate it when people greet me. I'm particularly driven to rages by, "Hey! How're you doing?"

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Originally posted by beebs

I feel like you're grouchy about people saying good morning and "what's up" just as a hello greeting.

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1. Yes, I am grouchy.

2. I am forced to embrace Twitter for commercial reasons.

3. Twitter just gives attention hounds one more outlet to force themselves upon innocents. And because of it's "Quickie" nature, Twitterers don't even worry about saying something reasonably worth being read.


4. Yes, I am grouchy.

And there's a problem with being grouchy? Embrace your inner Oscar!

FFS, now they're making Twitter some kind of work requirement? Egads..