I have been kicked squarely in the balls. And it is forcing me to rethink this blog and my lack of involvement in it.
Let me explain a little. Those that read this blog regularly (thanks Mom!) may or may not know that I am on Twitter, a kind of mini-blogging social network app that allows you to blurt out random crap via your mobile phone, computer, typewriter, fax, and morse code. (Ok, maybe not that last one, but I’m sticking with at least the first two). People who “follow” you can read whatever you decide to write. If you’re funny/interesting enough, you gain followers like the Pied Piper. If you are boring enough, they will stop following you shortly after they start following. I usually fall somewhere in the middle of those two extremes.
Celebrities, on the other hand, get hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers. Most of us follow like sheep, just loving the fact that we get to peer ever so slightly into their personal life. The results are sometimes disappointing when we find out that they are just as boring as us, but with more money.
Today, I had had enough of Rainn Wilson (“Dwight” from The Office)’s repeated re-tweets and constant product pitches, and told him so by Tweeting
“@rainnwilson I’m sorry, but we need to break up. I don’t follow celebtwits for RT’s and product endorsements all day. GL in The Office, tho!
The response from Rainn:
“Check out Rays blog! RT @raychampagne Im sorry, but we need to break up.I don’t follow celebtwits for RTs and product endorsements all day.”
So far, I have been inundated with reponses from his followers, most who actually agree with me. Which makes me wonder, is it too harsh to knock down a celebrity for something I get for free, without any contract or expectance of what I’m going to get out of it?
I have had about as many hits on this blog in the past hour as I have had all time. And I haven’t updated in over a month. And before that it was spotty at best. I have been thinking lately that it’s time to get back on the horse, I guess this was the boot in the ass I needed.
Twitterati, if you’re reading this, add my RSS feed to your iGoogle, I’ll try and mildly entertain more frequently.
Oh the shocker that a celeb would tweet about things they like, what their friends are doing, products and other things they think are cool!
What were you hoping for? Thankfully he is not like the other celeb twitters who have an almost disturbing lack of personality outside of their packaged and one dimensional rapper image (ahem, diddy). Honestly I think Rainn’s authentic tweets are superior to the blow by blow of what Demi or Katie & Andre are doing and thinking every moment of their lives.
Of course the great thing about Twitter is freedom of choice. Turn that station on, turn that station off. But you chose to draw attention to yourself for your lack of satisfaction with Rainn’s content like he was the freakin Scranton post. So now you might share more than your discontent and point out what you consider good celeb twittering. Might I suggest @therealnph I’d say he’s pretty standout. What you think?
You started the thread. A good one I think. Now drive it home with some more details.
Cheers.
Comment by grumpysnore — April 9, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
To my teckno geek son (written with much fondness),
Being the nearly senior citizen that I am, I can follow comments on your blog with confidence – but Facebook – I get lost way too easy! I read comments from one, it leads to another, then another, then another, and before too long, I am lost in the land of Facebook. Suffering from CRAFT moments (and you know what that is), I just leave the Facebook site because I have lost interest or just don’t understand some of the comments. Now I understand there is a new internet site for everyone to visit – Twitter! Well, the birds in my backyard do that all day, why would I want to visit that? I know, I am being a dinosaur – and I will soon be extinct! I have a difficult enough time keeping up with Yahoo and Gmail – deleting all the “junque” that comes in daily on Yahoo and forwarding things that I receive (which I find funny, cute, whatever) on Gmail. Enough for now – probably sounding ancient from you who are teckno smart!
Comment by Mom — April 10, 2009 @ 2:21 am
Good for people to know.
Comment by Charla — April 25, 2009 @ 5:33 am