This was all inspired about 2-3 weeks ago when someone I follow on twitter posted something along the lines of
“Wow…I’m now being followed by [famous_person_here]…must tweet good stuff”
I’ve nothing against the person who said this (and if you know who you are, I haven’t stopped following you or anything) but it wound me up slightly. I’ve blogged about this before. One of my biggest peeves:
Guides on how to Tweet
I HATE these things! I read one once that said “Don’t tweet about what you’re doing. No one cares”. It also contained lots of tips…keep tweets short so people can retweet them, don’t swear because it might put people off. Who actually cares?
I’m going to be myself on Twitter. I make no apologies for this and neither should you. Be yourself. If people like you or can relate to your interests (EG: web “stuff”) then they will follow you. If they don’t like your habits, they wont follow you. But you probably don’t want them following you anyway. If they find the occasional expletive inside a tweet and don’t like it, then it’s their loss. They wont follow you. But you shouldn’t care.
I’m not about to be someone I’m not in an attempt to gain 100000 extra followers.
And I’d like to think you’re not going to either.
