Comments on: 7 Things Twitter Has Taught Me

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:00:54 +0000

I repeat my own jokes. This is something my uncle does, so it’s confirmation that my long-awaited mid-life crisis and accompanying quest for supermodels, too-tight jeans and big red sportscars is just round the corner. I don’t know if my uncle went through this before he started repeating jokes, but I bet it’s a family pattern that…well, repeats.

So yep, there are people in real life who repeat all the time. I’m one of ‘em. But it’s probably a cry for help and attention. Or misplaced self-belief in the immortality of your words.

One thing Twitter has taught me: if nobody has retweeted what you said after about the 80th time you re-retweet it, it’s probably not worth retweeting. But it’s best to make it an even 100 and be sure.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:27:15 +0000

Caution: if you publicly ridicule a guru, they’ll set their ninja on you!

By: Barbara Weibel

Barbara Weibel — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:19:56 +0000

Amen to #7. So much of what comes out of our mouths is drivel, me included.

By: Mikeachim

Mikeachim — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:14:53 +0000

Frankly it astonishes me that people don’t feel twitchy and wrong by including “@Themselves” in a tweet if the focus of that tweet is them or what they said, rather than someone else and what they said.

Why can’t we have some new terminology for “reply”, say, “RP”? Hence, I say something and then later I tweet someone’s reply to me. For example:

Mikeachim: RT RP @ecollins8 You’ve already tweeted that 15 times today, you dork.

(Entirely hypothetical, of course. You’re far too polite to say such a thing, and also I never retweet the same thing more than 14 times in one day. Well, not usually).