Fahim's Irrational Thoughts

The Twitter Effect

Posted in journals by Fahim Akhter on September 30, 2009
When everyone hears of twitter or some other social media and jumps on the bandwagon like their other mates. Its usually for a couple of reasons:
I can express myself, my views, my likes
Sharing your work or links
Getting usefull information/News
Hearing about new technologies
Catching up with people
And we all love doing that at first we share we talk we make friends even. Then soon enough we start looking at those tiny little number saying how much followers I have in the bottom. Thats when things start going the wrong way.
A lot of us just loose ourself, our individuality more importantly we forget why we were here in the first place. The next thing you know is we’re in the band wagon of the twitter effect. We’re tweeting about:
Kanye west
Who died
The trending topic  (yes you too #aftersex)
Retweeting because a power tweeter tweeted it.
Tweeting about twitter
How to get more followers
I think this needs to stop, its a pretty nifty and brilliant platform to exchange ideas thoughts, news and what not. So lets please try to get over the Twitter effect and realize why we were here in the first place.
Happy tweeting.

When everyone hears of twitter or some other social media and jumps on the bandwagon like their other mates. It’s usually for a couple of reasons:

  • I can express myself, my views, my likes
  • Sharing your work or links
  • Getting usefull information/News
  • Hearing about new technologies
  • Catching up with people

And we all love doing that at first we share we talk we make friends even. Then soon enough we start looking at those tiny little number saying how much followers I have in the bottom. Thats when things start going the wrong way. A lot of us just lose ourself, our individuality more importantly we forget why we were here in the first place. The next thing you know is we’re in the band wagon of the twitter effect. We’re tweeting about:

  • Kanye west
  • Who died
  • The trending topic  (yes you too #aftersex)
  • Retweeting because a power tweeter tweeted it.
  • Tweeting about twitter
  • How to get more followers

I think this needs to stop, it’s a pretty nifty and brilliant platform to exchange ideas thoughts, news and what not. So lets please try to get over the Twitter effect and realize why we were here in the first place. Happy tweeting.

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  1. Mehreen Ali Kasana said, on September 30, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    I’m going to be very brief here and say: Fuck Twitter. It sucks donkey balls.

    Thank you.

    Reply
    • Fahim Akhter said, on September 30, 2009 at 8:24 pm

      And that donkey ball sucking widget has made people millions honey

      Reply
  2. NimzZz said, on October 1, 2009 at 1:46 am

    2 words … you’re weird

    Reply
  3. Mehreen Ali Kasana said, on October 1, 2009 at 1:51 am

    Which is why it sucks donkey balls.

    Reply
    • Fahim Akhter said, on October 1, 2009 at 8:57 am

      So basically it sucks donkey balls because people made money out of it ? :/ Thats lame

      Reply
  4. Mehreen Ali Kasana said, on October 1, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    God damn, Fahim. Do I have to explain the process of prostitution that involves sucking you-know-what and getting rich?

    omg. You just made me lose my argument.

    Reply
    • Fahim Akhter said, on October 1, 2009 at 3:09 pm

      Well there always will be another day nother post another post, untill then well hmm how to put it gently. I think I’d rather shut up.

      Reply
  5. Bush said, on October 27, 2009 at 2:16 am

    Oh the same is with he dA crowd. :\ Fail.

    Reply

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