For you Twatters

[chinook]

I'm currently following 1,551. When I see a new interesting account, I add them.

No one says you have to read every single tweet in your timeline.

You're thinking about it wrong if you think you do.

When I hit refresh, I'll see something guaranteed to be new and fresh while it might be 30 minutes between individual tweets on yours. If I'm stuck in an elevator or something where I'd otherwise be bored out of my mind, by the time I've read everything since the refresh picks up and I get to the top, I hit refresh again and there's a whole new set of entertainment. I get different perspectives on things going on. See different jokes by different people on whatever the current event of the minute is.

I don't follow random regular Joes. Of the 393 people that follow me, I probably follow less than 100 back, because they're completely uninteresting regular people who offer little less than retweets to things I already see from the original source or some mundane bullshit about what they had to eat that day. That's not what Twitter's for. I follow back the ones I know or ones that are funny and interesting or informative or relevant to my interests. It's not like Facebook. Think of it as a news source primarily. The more you follow, the more you are made aware of.

I mostly follow comedians, comedy writers, sportswriters, athletes (Never high school. Rarely current college players. All they offer is generic #RiseAndGrind and shit like that), satirists, musicians and bands I like, politicians and pundits I either like or am fascinated by, news sites, restaurants, bars, and breweries I like, accounts for festivals that go on around New Orleans, etc. I follow people who have funny or insightful things to say about Auburn, the Saints, politics, general things going on in New Orleans, things going on in Birmingham, beer, bacon, titties, tech, and whatever else I may read and say "Hm. Didn't know that was going on." or "Hm. That's an interesting take."

Whatever T-Rex.

[Tiger Wench]

I don't block retweets from everyone. Just retweets from people who do nothing but retweet stuff I could see for myself. It's like people who do nothing but "share" things they find on FB without additional commentary or something to add.  Come on, man. Have an original thought, or at least say WHY you are sharing or retweeting.  Otherwise it's lazy. So no, I'm not doing it "wrong".  I'm doing what works for me.

You have to be entertained while stuck in an elevator?  If you commuted to the top of the Empire State Building every day, maybe. That's just another "decade difference". I don't have to be entertained every five seconds by outside or electronic means. My kids are that way too.  They take their iTouch with them for the ten minute ride to the grocery store "so I won't be bored in the car". What happened to looking out the window? 

#GOML

[Jumbo]

I follow Chizadau and Chopperz

[Ogre]

I have a rule - I only follow 200 people.  If I want to add someone that means I find someone else I'm already following and drop them.  Out of 200 there is always someone I can drop.  I might drop and re-add the same person a few times but it keeps my timeline fresh without being overbearing. 

[Buzz Killington]

I really need to learn more about the ways of the twatters I guess.  I only follow about 175 people.

[AUChizad]

If someone sucks, you can always unfollow them.

I usually give them a shot first. If I notice corny jokes, obnoxious opinions, or just mundane bullshit coming out of an account more than a couple times, I axe them.

To each their own, I guess, but to me the more you follow the more you're getting out of it.

[Saniflush]

I have a rule - I only follow 200 people.  If I want to add someone that means I find someone else I'm already following and drop them.  Out of 200 there is always someone I can drop.  I might drop and re-add the same person a few times but it keeps my timeline fresh without being overbearing.

I do the same thing with bookfaces....come to think of it time to go through that list.

[Godfather]

Chizad why are you spending so much time in elevators?

[Jumbo]

Chizad why are you spending so much time in elevators?

He's come a long way like those slim ass cigarettes from Virginia?

[AUChizad]

Chizad why are you spending so much time in elevators?

I know, right? Sorry, I should have used a better hypothetical (I said getting stuck in an elevator, not just a daily ride to the 23rd floor).

[wesfau2]

He's come a long way like those slim ass cigarettes from Virginia?

Me and you
Your Momma and your cousin, too.

[DnATL]

I know, right? Sorry, I should have used a better hypothetical (I said getting stuck in an elevator, not just a daily ride to the 23rd floor).

he puts the dumb in dumbwaiter

[WiregrassTiger]

I'm currently following 1,551. When I see a new interesting account, I add them.

No one says you have to read every single tweet in your timeline.

You're thinking about it wrong if you think you do.

When I hit refresh, I'll see something guaranteed to be new and fresh while it might be 30 minutes between individual tweets on yours. If I'm stuck in an elevator or something where I'd otherwise be bored out of my mind, by the time I've read everything since the refresh picks up and I get to the top, I hit refresh again and there's a whole new set of entertainment. I get different perspectives on things going on. See different jokes by different people on whatever the current event of the minute is.

I don't follow random regular Joes. Of the 393 people that follow me, I probably follow less than 100 back, because they're completely uninteresting regular people who offer little less than retweets to things I already see from the original source or some mundane bullshoot about what they had to eat that day. That's not what Twitter's for. I follow back the ones I know or ones that are funny and interesting or informative or relevant to my interests. It's not like Facebook. Think of it as a news source primarily. The more you follow, the more you are made aware of.

I mostly follow comedians, comedy writers, sportswriters, athletes (Never high school. Rarely current college players. All they offer is generic #RiseAndGrind and shoot like that), satirists, musicians and bands I like, politicians and pundits I either like or am fascinated by, news sites, restaurants, bars, and breweries I like, accounts for festivals that go on around New Orleans, etc. I follow people who have funny or insightful things to say about Auburn, the Saints, politics, general things going on in New Orleans, things going on in Birmingham, beer, bacon, titties, tech, and whatever else I may read and say "Hm. Didn't know that was going on." or "Hm. That's an interesting take."

Do you follow @HardBlackDick? If not, I would like to know why?

[wesfau2]

Do you follow @HardBlackDick? If not, I would like to know why?

Because he's a repulsive homophobic racist, obviously.

[WiregrassTiger]

Because he's a repulsive homophobic racist, obviously.

My suspicion, all along.