Twitter

I started a twitter account months ago and then promptly forgot about it. Last week, I found the username and password, typed it in, and found that I had 3 followers! Following what? I haven't sent one tweet yet! So, I decided to find some people to follow and started with Dave Hughes from The 7pm Project. Then I looked at who he follows and added a few of them. And so on and so forth. Suddenly I had 45 people I was following, from all over the world. All of them verified accounts of celebrities. Over the last week, I have been reading the pearls of wisdom these celebs have been tweeting - wow, there's minutes of my life I'll never get back. I still haven't posted a tweet myself, not even a retweet or a reply. I must do that though, see if the celebs really do write back. Interesting experiment at least.

I realise I haven't ranted about this topic, so here it is. I have no interest in tweeting anything, and I really don't care about what these people have to say. But, I can't stop reading them!! There's something appealing about being a 'fly on the wall', so to speak, in these people's lives. Why can't I stop? What is so fascinating about 140 characters of misspelled (due to lack of space, I'm sure), inane, and let's face it, totally uninteresting tweets? I can only hope that this is as far as the obsession goes. I don't know what I'll do if I start sending tweets of my own!