Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

["Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm () igtc com>]

If you used twitter, you'd know that your example is an extreme corner  
case.

Still haven't gotten the postcard.


On Mar 17, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:28:50 PDT, "Paul M. Moriarty" said:
> > I'm not going on a trip to Corner Case Land with you.  Send me a post
> > card.
>
> It's hardly a "corner case".  If somebody is following 11 people,  
> and is
> being followed by somebody who only follows 6 people, how much of a  
> snob
> are they, really?  And is it realistic that if they're followed by  
> 1K people,
> that they're supposed to follow hundreds/thousands themselves to  
> eliminate
> any "snobbery" taint?
>
> Let's say I join Twitter, and I start following 10 people that I  
> actually
> give a flying f**k in a rolling donut what they twitter.  Nobody is  
> following
> me.  Am I a twitsnob?
>
> What if those 10 people start following me, even when I've done  
> nothing
> different?
>
> What if 100 other people start following me?  At what point is it  
> "snobbery"
> rather than just "I have no frikking *clue* who you are or why I  
> should
> follow you"?
>
> You're the one who used the apparently-derogatory term "twitsnob".  
> You don't
> like the term being held up for examination, don't use it.

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