Twitter

So guess what? I'm back on Twitter. I don't know if I am more scared for what I will become/what it will do to me, or happy for the entertainment and such that comes with Twitter. For those of you who don't know (you and 3 other people apparently) Twitter is a website in which you write "Tweets" which are short (140 characters) updates into your life. Some people use it to tell everyone in the world what they are doing, every, second, of, their, life. There are people who just re-tweet funny tweets that famous people make. There are people who are actually funny. There are people who use it for news, and so on.

I feel some of the spin-offs or make-fun-of sites are often better than the actual Twitter. One of my personal favorites is Tweeting Too Hard which is a site that makes fun of people who take life to serious and post about it on Twitter. Sometimes its so pathetic what people tweet. No offence to anyone but seriously. The number 2 tweet on that site when I was writing this was as follows "Ugh. Friend on Facebook tagged me in a note saying 'hey guys, I've been away 8 months, please send me parcels!'. So. Attention. Seeking." Alright you can't not look at that and feel sorry for this person. Or laugh at it. Yeah I'm going to go with laugh at it.

The language of Twitter confuses me to no end. I feel like I am just starting to grasp what things mean. The first thing you need to know about Twitter language is the whole @ thing. So just like you have your profile, you also have an @ address which is how people mention you or find you on Twitter. For example, say I want to write a tweet that has something to do with my friend *(NAME WITHED FOR OBVIOUS REASONS)* I would not type his name into my tweet. I would write @ and whatever his @ address is (I think it has something to do with BS(Bull Sh*t)) and type my tweet. The next thing is the # symbol. Apparently there are "trends" that people follow on Twitter and use those to continue though trends and show people that they are cool for following the trends. For example, I could write something thats obviously stupid like "Lost my keys but found them on the hook" after that I would write something like #dontjudgeme which is a trend and basically it labels me as a trend follower and thus more people will continue that trend. I have no idea what RT means (*Editors note, I found out it means Re-Tweet).

Twitter has many functions and uses. It has let us mortals take a peak into the lives of great people. Twitter can be used for good, or it can be used for evil. Maybe I'm just really tired from having that Red Bull and don't know what I'm typing about. Nonetheless, if you feel the desire to join Twitter, by all means, enjoy. If you find the need to follow me for some obscure or weird reason (stalker?) go ahead I guess. I can be found at @ZamShadow. If that does not work, someone let me know and I will fix it, or something. Anyway yeah. Man Red Bull never does this to me. Maybe I should tweet about this...

-Zam

P.S. I'm actually going to tweet about this...