A while ago, last year precisely, I finally made the decision to hop on a certain networking site called TWITTER.
The main reason I decided to join twitter was because I liked how you could write a thousand
jargon stuff in a day without people thinking you were mad. Ok there was no room for 'likes' and comments; people having something to say and all, that you just had to reply to so you don't come off as rude. Well there are mentions, but it's not in your face like that. If I deem it fit to answer, I do and when I feel like someone is just trying to waste my time, I simply ignore it. #bliss
So basically at a point, I got a little bit inclined. It was almost like a nice good journal. #vain
If I was looking for my phone, and I didn't see it, I'll just hop on twitter and vent it out first before setting out to look for it. It was fun reading tweets from friends and knowing that they read mine too.
You want any kind of 'awkardness'? you can find it with no limitations. I mean really! Sigh!
And then I just realized that everything good must have a few setbacks.
And one day it happened, total strangers started following me. What? Were people stalking me? No on twitter it is totally okay for anyone from God knows wherever to click on your page and start following you.
"Calm down girl, welcome to twitter" I told myself. And now I'm very used to it.
And then I went about the usual me. I'm not one that puts out sensitive details about my private life in the open though, so there's really nothing to worry about.
And again it happened, I had put up my "now playing" as usual. And one day, one joker had the effrontery to tell me that nobody really cared about what I was playing. Sweetheart, check again, you're the one that decided to click the 'follow tab' SMH.
Well, this is the good thing about twitter, you don't have to reply, they can like to manage their boredom on their own sometimes.
And then you get to deal with certain friends that wake up and blab trash from morning till night, just because they know they can blab on twitter. #annoying sort
In such situations, I miss facebook, cos all I need to do is to click on 'hide posts' without having to remove them from my friends' list. Sweetheart I don't hate you, I just hate your posts. Now pay attention, I said "friends". It means people that are important and it matters to me if they'd feel bad when they realize that I was no longer following them. I mean there are certain friends that if they didn't bother to follow me when I followed them, I'd feel bad myself. It'd just kinda feel like I wasn't important to them. I mean just imagine me catching an old school buddy on twitter and I immediately followed him, hoping we could catch up a little bit. And then the sad hilarity, he sends me a DM, (direct message) "Thank you for following me, long time". You know I just read the message as "welcome my new fan".
I realized I couldn't even send him a DM myself because he wasn't following me. SMH!
It could be annoying, I know. No it's not like people that will decide to follow a complete stranger and then start getting mad that he/she is not following them back. You're just on a long thing! You have a reason for following them innit? If they find a reason to follow you, they will.
Anyway, I've come to realize that for some it's like a throne. #twitter throne hahahaha
Hmm peeps calm down o, there is no award on that time waster sha.
Now this brings me to the story of a certain man. His first name starts with a big R. Please I don't like trouble o! You see this man's followers are the best people to be used to describe the word "followership". I do not want to push any of them, you'd never know how far they can go :)
Anywayz, as I was saying, he doesn't follow anyone but he has millions of followers. I'm like don't you have a wife, family, anything, someone you just know you should try to keep in touch with? No! he doesn't, I mean none whatsoever.
And yet his followers will never let you rest. Whether you follow him or not, his tweets will always get to you.
They are supposed to be words of wisdom but believe me when I say it's pure comedy.
Here's an example - "WTF?! - "Where's the faith?!" Jeez smh again!
His followers will retweet every and anything he posts no matter how cliched the phrase is. To them it's the greatest wise saying they've ever heard. He'll write, "tick tick says the clock tick tick" And you'll see 200 Rts (retweets). Bad if you follow 10 of them, that's just a guaranteed bad day no doubt.
As if things cannot get anymore interesting on twitter, you see celebs that pay for a publicist to speak for them but they still feel like they are not getting enough words out. To make everything easy and even, they hop on twitter. Yea Mr spokesperson, take the floor in real life, while I dole out the nitty gritty details on twitter.
Please how conceited can one be to actually see the need to gush out these kind of words?
Do not compare me with anybody because it will take years before any of these so called colleagues will get to my level.I'm the Beyonce of Africa, the rest are just like Kelly Rowland or maybe Ciara.I'm the richest. I don't need fans, they just come anyway, they have no choice.Ohmydayz! Did you fire your publicist before embarking on this? Because that's a lot of damage you've left for him/her to try to repair.
And the ever 'loyal' fans will retweet and reply "we love you" #Sigh!
Wtf?! And no, I don't mean 'where's the faith', I actually mean WHAT THE FUDGE?! :)
On a brighter note, you get to learn new 'supposed to be cool' words...
E.g "I'm just dripping in swag for dayzzzzzzzzzz".
You have to accentuate the 'z' for it to make sense. LOL
There are plenty ways to use this word, as long as you drag the 'z'.
And if you want to make it phenomenal, just add #boomboompow at the end.
"You make me smile for dayzzzzzzzz #boomboompow"
hehehe hilarity!
....to be continued