Twitter is a nice social networking for those who follow interesting tweeters, but is a boring social networking for those who don’t follow interesting tweeters and who don’t know what the fuss is all about.
I’ve been thinking about these things lately:
- Why are you following those people?
- What do you expect from their tweets?
And also about:
- Why are they following you?
- What do they expect from your tweets?
These are my big questions. I like funny tweets that are not being forced to look so funny. I also need some informations from internet, so I add funny tweeters and geeks on my followings list. For this reason I still exist on twitter and oh, I tweet daily!
But why are you following people? What’s your reason? Oftenly, people follow other people because of these things:
- They are following them
- They are their friends
But they don’t care about the contain of their tweets. Do they? Hell, I don’t know! That’s why I ask you why you’re following people.
For those Indonesian tweeters: you still remember about #rana, who became a trending topic, right? She told you that BB [read: Blackberry] users are alay. But are they really…alay? What did she actually mean? And why are those BB users mad when she spoke her mind out like this? She told:
- Whenever they feel bored, they tweet it
- Whenever they feel down, they tweet it
- When they just woke up, they tweet it
- When they’re going to sleep, they tweet it
- Whenever they want to take shower, they even tweet it
- Whenever they want to eat, they tweet it
- Whenever they want to drink something, they tweet it
These things make me think like,”is it so important to tell tweeters that you feel bored, down, just woke up, are going to sleep, take shower, eat, drink, etc? Is it…important?”
I am not going to say that BB users are alay, nope, they aren’t! But the girl who said this is a high school student who sees it from people around her who are teenagers and I can understand why she told it. But then again, I don’t live in Indonesia and I don’t really have a clue about the situation around teenagers there. I only heard from people around about teenagers having blackberry and only use it to update status on facebook and twitter. I’m sorry for those sensitive BB users who got mad because of this opinion of her. For me, those kind of tweets are boring and too much information! I meant, why do I have to know when you’re taking food, when you’re drinking, feeling bored, etc? IF you get mad because of this, do you think I care?
“But, twitter is a social networking to tell people what you’re currently doing!” I hear you telling me like this.
Alright, you’re right! But since I joined Twitter on 07/07/07, I have seen enough tweets about what the people I’m following are doing, also useful tweets of them about good links, reads, and jokes. Afterall, twitter isn’t about what you are doing anymore, but about what you share to your followers. Am I right? Unless you’re a celebrity and your fans want to know what you are doing every detail, you can tweet about the single thing you’re doing. But I still think you don’t need to, and I still think that other people don’t have to know every single thing you do every day.
For those whom I’m following, I follow you because of these reasons:
- Your tweets are funny/interesting
- Although you might have tweeted about what you’re doing, you also tweet about interesting things like: links, photos, etc and I really want to know what you do every day
I am not a followwhore, I don’t always follow my followers back because not all of my followers tweet about the interesting stuff. At least, not interesting enough for me.
But now, this question can be directed to me also, why are you following me? I always think that my tweets contain awful things! :D I only like to tweet about what I’m currently thinking of, I can be rude but I don’t really care, but my complicated mind makes me laugh at my own tweets….narcist? LOL
Afterall I wanna say I’m sorry for those who are unfollowed by me, your daily tweets are just not something I want to read. But I have made lists special for you all, I’m still reading your tweets, I just sorted this out. Sorting tweets that really are worth reading for me. From this entry you’ll probably start thinking which tweets are worth reading for you, if mine is not worth reading, feel free to unfollow me, honesty is gold ;-)
And oh, the latest entry on Maxvoltar is true!
If someone isn’t worth following on Twitter, don’t follow him. No matter how much exposure that certain person has, or how good of a friend he is.
Have you ever felt that the thing you usually do become the worsest thing you’ve done? This probably sounds weird, but this is what I felt on sunday, december 27th, 2009.
But, what did I feel? I felt I’m done with smoking,something in my heart said,”alright, vanes! It’s enough!! Enough with those cigarettes!” and I started to hate my smoking habit, I started to hate cigarette’s smoke.
After this day, I didn’t stop smoking directly but managed to smoke menthol cigarette and I smoked lesser.
Day 1 (monday): 4 cigarettes
Day 2 (tuesday): 3 cigarettes
Day 3 (wednesday): 2 cigarettes
Day 4 (thursday): 2 cigarettes
Day 5 (friday): none
and so on…!
This is a weird situation for me, because I had always been thinking that it’s very, very, very hard to stop smoking, but I have stopped without any difficulty. What I meant to say is that, before, when I tried to stop smoking, I felt sensitive, I felt like I was in a rush to buy something and I kept on counting the time about how many hours I haven’t smoked, and such.
More thing which I find weird is that people around asked me why I didn’t smoke when I was with them, and my friend discussed about smoking room when we were at church as if she already heard that I’m not a smoker anymore and wanted to know whether or not it’s true. Maybe it’s just my paranoid thought, but it made me tell her I’m not smoking anymore. I actually didn’t wanna tell it because I wanted to proove being non-smoker for longer time first before I started telling people that I’m a non-smoker now. When people around me asked why I didn’t smoke I only told them that I wasn’t in my mood to smoke.
When my dad bought his cigarette, I couldn’t stand his cigarette’s smoke and had to leave the living room, but as what smokers had told me earlier about stopping with smoking:
“Girl, I’ve tried to stop smoking, but whenever I was with my friends who are smokers, I felt like smoking again and here I am, smoking again!”
“Girl, I’ve tried to stop smoking, but all I felt was sensitiveness, I kept on grumbling, I felt mad the whole day and I felt that I missed something!”
“Girl, I’ve tried to stop smoking, but whenever I got problems, all I wanted was smoking to calm me down!”
Only one is valid for me: which is the first reason; I indeed felt like smoking after I found out that my dad had a cigarette. I did smoke one, but then I gave it back to him. I felt like smoking, but my body couldn’t stand it no more and cigarette’s smoke omg stinks big time!
Few people asked me how I stopped, honestly I don’t know. I had not planned to stop smoking neither. I didn’t chew nicotine chewing gum, I didn’t consult my doctor, I just didn’t smoke and it is the best logical way to stop smoking: don’t smoke and don’t buy cigarette (right?).
But, if you do have a plan to stop smoking, I have some advices here:
- Do something else, do something which makes you forget to smoke
- Buy lollipops so every time you wanna smoke you start to suck a lollipop instead
- Just imagine you’re with your non-smoker friends and you’re currently smoking; I’ll tell you what they probably think: you stink big time! So? Every time you want to start smoking, think about this stinkyness, you don’t want people to tell you stink, right? ;)
But the most important thing is: DO YOU REALLY WANT TO STOP?!?
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I’m so happy with this month December because of the snow, but it’s not okay for those people who got stuck at Utrecht central station and Groningen because the trains didn’t arrive!
My neighbour’s snowman.
I just got Hootsuite for iphone yesterday. At first I thought it was a nice app which seems to be a mix of Tweetie 2 and tweetdeck. I said Tweetdeck because I can make groups and if I want to go to replies, groups, etc I have to swipe the timeline. I said Tweetie 2 because Hootsuite has “pull down to refresh” feature, just like what Tweetie 2 has. I like owl and the colours of Hootsuite. But after tweeting for a while, I noticed that Hootsuite crashes whenever someone added a geotag on his/her tweet. Then I tried to compare it with other twitter apps and ended up thinking that Hootsuite app is an unfinished app, or you can say: a very beta one! Here’s why:
- Hootsuite crashes if someone added a geotag on his/her tweet.
- I can’t view thread conversation.
- I can’t browse my followings and followers lists.
- I can’t see the RT if someone uses a new RT style to RT.
- I can’t browse tweeple list if I want to mention someone on my tweet.
- Hootsuite has no inline image viewing.
- On profile, you don’t know whether or not I’ve followed/unfollowed someone
- No “mark twitter as spam” option
- No instapaper integration
- I have to go to someone’s profile if I want to DM him/her (I could do d @twitterusername message, but it’s not handy if someone doesn’t know how to do it, his/her tweet can easily go to the twitter timeline, while in Tweetie if I want to DM someone, I can go to DM tab, click on the compose button and it will let me choose whether I want to send a DM or a tweet).
- It doesn’t recognise the hashtags I have used like what Tweetie and Twittelator Pro do.
Afterall, I like the organised tabs which I can edit the way I want to, I’m also able to add lists, view my stats although it only gives me a statistic about the links I’ve created with the built in ow.ly shortener.
Maybe you have found another disadvantages of using Hootsuite app for the iPhone, just let me know. But my advice for this app is that you better wait til the developers released a better update, unless you’re a big fan of Hootsuite. For now, Hootsuite isn’t my favourite twitter app for the iPhone, even though I like the looks. I still prefer Tweetie, Twitterrific and Twittelator Pro because these apps have better features and Twitterrific has a really nice design! I’ve noticed that IconFactory team has made their apps with a big love! ;-)
My name is Vanessa, or just call me Vanes, or you can call me V if you're too lazy. I live in a country where you can see tulps, windmill, clogs, and jerks. I am a part time student, full time sleeper, weblogger, smoker, lurker, and netter. 
