Anyone who is following on twitter knows I went on a very minor tweet rant the other day about Twitter and how people use it. It was all sparked by this radio personality that I follow on twitter who used to reply to tweets addressed to them (a phrase I call TweetBacking), but hasn't over the course of the last few weeks, and yet they still are promoting their Twitter feed by saying, "Follow me! Follow me on twitter." For some reason this REALLY aggravates me to no end. I love twitter. I love the fact that there is interaction among you and your "followers." That is what makes this a social medium. If you aren't going to participate in the social aspect of it, then go away. You are not nearly interesting enough for me to just follow you and have no interaction with you. Twitter was/is a way for people to get a chance to interact with people they may never otherwise would have. If you aren't social on Twitter, you are just someone using Twitter as a megaphone. Something that allows you to shout your thoughts/feelings/nonsense to the crowd, without hearing them respond. So if you are one of those Twitter users whose followers are 1,200+ and you follow less than 100 and you never tweetback, then you are an egotistical jack ass and have no idea how to use or reap the real benefits of being involved with a social media.
