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FEELING "TWITTER"-PATED

by Norma Thomas on 03/07/12

There should be a surgeon general's warning on TWITTER.  I have found it to be more addictive than FACEBOOK and it's "faster" somehow.  That is probably due to the 140-character limit of the tweets.

There are some drawbacks . . . primarily, unless you make your TWITTER account "private" or "protected" (which I haven't), you can't control who follows you on twitter.  Evidently, there are a number of "adult" sites out there that are actively soliciting on TWITTER.  Once in a while, I get a "follow" from a female whose profile picture shows her scantily clad and the bio is, well, "adult".  I have found that if I don't acknowledge the follows with a "thank you" tweet and don't follow them back, they usually remove the follow within a few days . . . for which I am, actually, thankful.

It's not limited to the scantily clad group . . . you also have the haters and the fanatics of something or other.  Again, I find that ignoring their follow is enough to have them, eventually, withdraw.

I feel extraordinarily lucky that 95% (roughly) of the folks I've met on TWITTER have been exceptional . . . smart, talented, ambitious, good folks who, often, have a website or products they are simply trying to connect with customers. 

Though I tend to NOT bring politics to my website, I don't really think this qualifies for a political stance, per se . . . I was also really impressed with the vigor with which "tweeters" pursued the Fluke/Limbaugh situation.  I was impressed and I actively participated in boycotting the companies that WERE sponsoring his show.  My position was simple:  that could have been one of my sisters or one of my nieces that he crucified on air for three days.  There is no apology that can erase that vitriol. 

But watching the "tweets" that were, almost literally, flying to these companies and the ingenuity of the boycotts that were suggested made me proud.  I was proud that all of these people who had never met Sandra Fluke were running to her aid out of a sense of decency.  It was a beautiful, totally American, thing to behold and I am proud to have been a part of it.

Social media, TWITTER, in particular, is a powerful tool; an instrument that can be wielded to truly change the landscape and I hope it continues to be in positive ways.

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