Results tagged “tweeting too hard” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

A recent study found that less than ten per cent of twitter users are responsible for 90 per cent of the messages.

It also found that 55 per cent don't 'tweet' (send messages) at all.

And this website tweeting too hard reveals that a good proportion of those ten per cent who send virtually everything are, er, up themselves. (The website's tagline reads: " Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.")

Yes the twittersphere is packed to capacity with self loving jerks sending self justifying messages, which have the basic purpose of driving home the undeniable truth of how wonderful they are.

In my own experience a whole bunch of messages on the site are aimed at driving traffic through to websites (people who do that - what jerks eh? ;)) and a lot are 'musings' on life in a philosophical kind of way.

To be fair what can you do with 140 characters apart from thoughtful haikus on life, or just report the banal what-I-had-for-breakfast kind of stuff?

I really enjoy the indiscreet 'tweets' from management meetings and have seen people get into trouble when someone sends the 'no-one understands what I'm trying to say and they're all gits' message, forgetting that the md is following them.

Anyway this selection from tweeting too hard randomly reveals the kind of jerks who inhabit the twittersphere, showing that they'll be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes:

"Really enjoy looking smug at the gym. Not going to lie."

"Shopkeep told me I was man of the world. Don't think it was sarcastic - I think it was the beads I was wearing and that I said "ciao"."

"Lovely day in Camden. Brought up that I'd been to India, home of tea, to a Starbucks girl. Think it intimidated her. Seemed to kill mojo."

"Need new ethnic beads. Mine are now a bit scummy. If Indians made their wooden beads from wipe-clean plastic they'd stay authentic longer."

"<--Has now been hit-on and asked out more times than she can count!"

Yes you could suggest that they were being ironic, pricking the balloon of their own pomposity, but I doubt it. And some were Americans (therefore incapable of irony) or 'new media' types (ditto).

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