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You’re Dead to Me
You know, on the Ghost Whisperer, how Jennifer Love-Hewitt hears ghosts, and nobody else does, and they’re pretty sure she’s nutty, and maybe the creepy things are really her fault, because, hello, she’s the one hearing voices, so what do you think? Okay, in real life, she sparkles her vajayjay, so she definitely is pretty nutty, but that’s not the point. The point is, she talks to people who technically don’t exist.
That’s kind of like all those people on twitter who protect their tweets.
When your tweets are protected, using #hashtags is worthless, because your tweets don’t show up anywhere outside your twitter vault. It’s kind of like voting for Ralph Nader. Nice try, but it doesn’t mean anything.
Nobody wants to apply to be your friend. Just saying.
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No problem, if they want to communicate only with their inner circle. But, when they follow someone who can’t follow them back, that’s rude and antisocial. I guess that’s why some people are responding like this:
Twitter: ui_hero
says:
You make a fundamental assumption about Twitter users that just can’t be considered categorically true.
Many users use Twitter as a communication service between a tight circle of friends and associates, rather than a public conversation with the entire world. These users still may have hundreds of followers, but all their followers have been “vetted” and are privy to the user’s private feed.
Hashtags are completely valid for these users, they’re just used differently. Public users’ feeds can be found by searching hashtags, private users use hashtags as a one-way link from their feed out to an idea in the greater Twitterverse.
So all those private feeds you complain about, they’re only useless to you, someone on the “outside”, like they’re supposed to be.
Twitter: stinginthetail
says:
hoorah, a twitter fail i’ve never done