Im an avid tweeter… I mysteriously like to tweet but since Im not an expert on social media I’ve been wondering..

Why do I love to tweet.

What is the purpose of tweeting

Im hoping the people who know the social media business contribute to shed light on this since I know Im not the only person who doesn’t know. When I signed up on twitter for the first time I did not read the following philosophy of twitter:

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Well thats what twitter IS philosophically. But what follows is what i find it to be now. After about 6 months on twitter, Im mutually connected to about 61 people of which I’ve met 2 of them in real life that covers friends, family and co-workers. The rest of the people who follow fall into these broad categories:

• Follower – porn perverts who think their dick was the next big thing (philosophically) that happened after the internet.AVOID
• Follower – Ad tweets and cheap marketing. AVOID
• Following – News media that are on twitter.
• Following – Certain celebrities and tech gurus.
• Following – Genuine twitter users who mysteriously end up following me or tweet interesting stuff.

That bought me to the question, everybody would want to know what a celebrity or guru is doing would anyone really care about knowing what I am doing? Cos I’m neither of the above nor an SEO or social media expert. And from what I’ve observe about other people who fall into my category I’m also not too keenly interested unless their tweet has some tiny URL wherein Im no longer interested in their tweet but what their pointing to. Well… That sounded to my like a more human,fun version of Stumbleupon. Woww…. S0 now at the end of the day I have no idea if any other twitter user is really interested in knowing ‘what Im doing right now?’  and I am not keenly interested in what they are doing right now unless they have a ‘claim to fame’ attached. Have we defeated the vision statement of twitter by use OR has twitter evolved to a level where Im not mature enough to appreciate it.

Still remember the odd times when someone DM’s me or RT after a personal tweet. Makes a novice like me feel on top of the world. For anyone who’s read till this point pardon my ignorance. If you know lemme know where is twitter going and where is twitter taking us?

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