Keeping Twitter Alive

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I’ve been trying to be more careful who I follow on twitter.

I dont want to be labeled a twittersnob, but I’ll tell you what. It is getting harder and harder to tell the real friends from the androids out there, and while I don’t have that much against androids, I don’t have the time to be following them around.

One example. I was recently followed by @SkyBlew.The bio claimed that they were “Preachers of Social Media, Pop Culture Junkies, E-Commerce Experts;” 200 updates, all different. However, all of these posts were from twitterfeed, and none were as a reply to anyone.

So I clicked on the link in the bio. This is the site I got:

Blew Sky

Apparently the twitter entity that I nearly followed was a non-entity, really- something “Set Up Once… [to] Make Money EVERY Day.” I just got followed by another couple today.

This honestly made me angry, and here’s it in a nutshell. I don’t make friends to have money- I make money to have fun with my friends. And most of the best friends that I have have been made online. It’s really the only way a working mother of four can socialize.

And twitter’s excellent for forming connections. It’s like a huge conversation, and it is about the farthest thing from random that you can get. The followers separate pretty quickly by common threads- not by occupation or background, but by spirit. Maybe I say this because the majority of my friends are smart, driven and funny, but I also know that I have lost some people because of both the volume and the content of my 140-character-or-less nuggets. That’s life- you have to treat all people with love, but you don’t have to tweet with them.

I know that if I broke up with my boyfriend- were I to have one- I could immediately find a half-dozen or more friends with shoulders I could cry on. When my brokerage was absorbed by another one, and that night I came home to learn that my mother had died, I shot out one sentence about it and was propped up by people all over the country. One even called me and kept me company on the phone until bedtime, and I’ll always remember him for that kindness. And this is not unusual- I observe it happening all the time.

So I guess before I follow anyone I am going to check somehow to see if they have a heartbeat, probably by messaging and expecting a response. And I also guess that I will probably lose a few live souls that are shy or haven’t figured it out yet, and that’s too bad.

But I feel like if we don’t screen like this, the medium will become a mass of autoresponders autofollowing each other, with little oases of interaction. And I love the heartbeat of twitter.

I, Robot

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