Twittiots

I was mooching around on Twitter this afternoon and came across what must be one of the most idiotic statements I've seen written on, and about, the micro blogging site. What's more, it was posted by someone from my industry who constantly acts on many other blogging sites like the very people he/she is criticising with their post. 

(No names to be mentioned here, as I don't want to get into an internet based slanging match, but the clues are here!)

So, this post slammed into Twitterers who have lots of followers but follow very few people themselves. The culprit to whom I refer stated of such people; “F**k you, Twitter is not your personal megaphone” and threatened to “publicly shame” people who carry on the practice! They went on to cite an example of someone who has 2000 followers, but only follows 7 people themselves. THE SHAME OF IT!!!

Now, I have a number of concerns here...

First, the internet is not a democracy. The internet is a free environment. That is the very beauty of it. People can (to a certain extent) do what they like, use it how they want and act how they like. If people want to use Twitter as their personal megaphone, then so be it! Why not?

There are many people, I'm sure, who have some very interesting, important or educational things to say, but don't have time to sit and read pages and pages of posts from other people. I myself would rather have more people following me than I follow myself, mainly because my Twitter feed gets too full of confusion I just don't have time to read.

I want to treat Twitter like my own personal megaphone!

Also, and lets take this to its logical conclusion, where does the balance between not following enough people versus the number of people who follow you rest? Does it have to be a 1 to 1 ratio? Does Lady Gaga have to also follow 11,674,009 other people......oh, sorry, 11,674,010.....oh....doh!

And finally, as I said above, the person in question does have a habit of rabitting and rabitting on, on many other internet forums which, in my opinion, they seem to regard as their “personal megaphones”.

Idiots in glass houses.......

A Turtle Twittering this afternoon.....