Twitter Diary Week 2: Getting someone to tweet “I love you”
Week 2: Getting someone to tweet “I love you”
9 Feb
So I’m supposed to get someone to say that they love me, on Twitter? Getting someone to say “I love you” in real life is hard enough, but now I have to get a stranger to profess love for me? Do I even want a stranger to profess love for me?
10 Feb
I’m certainly not feeling the love for Twitter. When I log on, I spend so much time wading through and catching up with what people have been saying (usually twaddle, and usually from Philip Schofield) I find it difficult to remember that it’s supposed to be enjoyable.
It doesn’t help that I still don’t seem to have that many “followers”. This is a particular problem because I have no way of making my @replies come up on the screens of the people I’m trying to contact. So I have to rely on direct messages (which aren’t really in the spirit of Twitter) or send speculative @s to anyone I can think of – with increasing desperation.
@Schwarzenegger Arnold, I most ardently admire and love you.
11 Feb
Angry. Twitter seems to have stopped working from my phone, so although it says the message has sent, it, er hasn’t. This has made me cross, because it seems ridiculous to only update my status from the computer.
Besides, I’m not convinced that anyone is even reading these posts. I can’t stop seeing it as an extension of Facebook status updates – bite-sized chunks of narcissism.
12 Feb
An ethical dilemma: Doesn’t trying to make someone profess love to you via Twitter make you a bit of a stalker?
With this in mind, I’m sending out this cutie of a link:
It’s about some guy who just started sending strangers love letters. And not in a creepy stalker way. I like the story because it feels sort of like what I’m doing.
It definitely comes across as more stalky on the internet. Maybe I should just be sending round pictures of kittens eating corn-on-the-cob?
13 Feb
“I’ll send you a love tweet as soon as I get home,” says a well-meaning friend. (She doesn’t).
14 Feb
A sombre Valentine’s thought: Twitter isn’t really about sharing the love; it’s more about showing off.
So far, the number one use for is to see what links people are posting. If you’re lucky, it’s a picture of a deep-fried roast dinner or a koala in a baby bath. If you’re not, it’s Adrian Monck posting another del.icio.us bookmark.
Result: No love for City_Twit this week. Why? Jemima Kiss solves the problem in a tweet: Overheard: “If you’re an unsocial git, social media is *not* going to help…
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