Greetings. It's been a while.
I haven't been sick or anything, I'm just too lazy to make these entries so often.
SO SUE ME. (Please don't)
I return to you with more topics about social media, and in this case, the "Twitterverse." By the way, if you use that term for Twitter in seriousness, we're going to have to talk.
Twitter is full of interesting people, most of which have no clue how to- well, anything.
Close enough.
Alright, let's get down to business.
1. Hashtags.
Twitter users often use hashtags before key words to point out their topic and make it more likely to be seen. It's pointless, really, but if enough people tag the same word or phrase it'll become "trending" and that will do absolutely nothing. Really. Nothing.
Using hashtags can most certainly be taken too far.
Not even kidding, people do this.
Let's try to take it down a notch and stop screaming desperately for attention. How about limiting yourself to about 2-3 hashtag-ged words per tweet and call it a day? Because #youre #really #getting #annoying.
2. Hashtags... On Facebook
Hashtags only work on Twitter. They do not do anything for anyone on Facebook.
Un-link your Twitter and Facebook accounts and stop being a douche.
This picture is really dumb but it's Sir Patrick Stewart so it's ok.
3. Celebrity Feuds
Celebrities often have falling outs over Twitter like the mature human beings they are. They argue back and forth using hashtags and "lol"s... In short, they're really stupid. Yet everyone swarms to these fights like a car accident. Or like a fist fight over parking spaces.
I'm talking about you, Chris Brown and Frank Ocean.
Lul. Had to.
That's great, you guys can't park elsewhere and walk to the recording studio. If I were going to make millions I'd walk from my freaking house. Taking their feud to Twitter, they threw backhanded comments back and forth and I was just about as impressed with that as I was with Justin Timberlake's new single...
I wasn't. THERE I SAID IT
4. Celebrity Parody Accounts That Aren't Aiming to Be Funny
... Why?
5. Spam.
"@RandomKidFromHighSchoolYouTalkedToOnce: yo u ned 2 see th1s video of u *insert suspicious link with random letters and numbers here*"
^ yeah, no. I'm not that stupid. ^
Seriously, what are you clicking on where you'd spam all of your Twitter followers?
"Oh look at this link! It's all pretty and blue and clickable! It must be harmless!"
Pretty much.
6. Messages Take Up More Than One Tweet's Worth of Text
Tweets have a limit of 140 characters. Use them wisely.
A lot of people tend to talk
and talk
and talk
and talk
... and eventually they'll have to break up their message into 3 or more Tweets.
I'm not going to search for all 3 in my news feed, thank you. This isn't a scavenger hunt, this is "I'm bored and I'm just scrolling mindlessly. Don't catch my attention just to have an unfinished Tweet." By the time I see it's been cut off I've lost all interest and move on with my life.
To conclude this last point and also conclude this blog entry, I leave you with this:
