CSotD: Begging for attention
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Sure, why not?
Madam & Eve doesn't need to exaggerate a whole lot today to make me laff.
I still don't get Twitter. I find Facebook very handy, and, for instance, I follow news of my favorite football team as much there as on the AFC South blog, because Paul Kuharsky announces his updates there via Twitter. But other people post on Facebook with their phones, so what's the advantage?
Which brings me to what I think is the advantage of Twitter: That you can text all your followers at once instead of simply updating your Facebook status and hoping they care enough to log on and look. Of course, if they care enough to sign up to get every breathless update, I suppose it's a mutual advantage, but I still don't get it. Says the guy who disables chat on his computer because he doesn't like to be pestered. And who tends to hide people who use Facebook to announce their dinner menus.
One comfort is that, according to user stats, Twitter is not the demesne of the young and hip. In fact, it skews slightly middle-aged. So my lack of interest is not a sign of my lack of hipness. It seems that most of the people imploring me to follow them on Twitter are commercial entities of one sort or another, like that nice fellow in today's cartoon. It seems another fairly large group are people who set up accounts because they were told it was necessary for modern marketing and are now wondering what to do with them.
If that fellow were smart, of course, he'd be asking people to text him, with a charge for the message that he would then rake in as profit. Or he'd offer the South African equivalent of a 900-number for them to call. Or maybe he's raking in millions from banner ads and just needs to up his traffic count.
In any case, I don't get it. But it's not because I'm old, and it's not because I'm not hip. Really.
The stats prove it.
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