Twitter; or, Ways in which I am less observant than one-eyed Saul Tigh.

[beccatoria]

So a while back I got convinced that I ought to sign up to Twitter as saultigh for a crazyawesome post-Revelations BSG crack-rpg game. And I did, and it was mightily amusing, because who doesn't love pretending to be a drunken one-eyed robot in 144 characters or less? NO ONE WORTH KNOWING, I CAN TELL YOU.

So anyway, I still occasionally post stuff there. Like once every few days when I'm bored or feeling silly, and today I got one of those emails from twitter saying "so and so is following you," and I thought, you know, I've gotten quite a lot of those lately, perhaps I should check that little sidebar thing and see how many there are. There's like a hundred of the frakkers following me! (Not counting the BSG in-character folks). Which I know isn't very many at all in the grand scheme of things, but hell, it's more people than have ever expressed a spontaneous interest in stuff I have to say in-character as a parody of someone else who is fictional ever before. So, um, yeah. Go me for getting the name "saultigh" on twitter before anyone else, I guess?

I feel...oddly pressured to perform and be funny or something. And a bit exposed. o.O

However if you're interested in me pretending to be a seventy-something robotic drunkard with depth perception problems and a hot knocked-up robot girlfriend - it's BYOB.

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

My lj is "friended" at about a 2:1 ratio to journals I "friend". I honestly can't imagine why some of those people are reading me. o_O

/it's ALL ABOUT ME

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

I've become a crotchety old woman who cannot understand Twitter (you kids get off my lawn!!) but that is FANTASTIC.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Ditto, actually. I think it's a combination of my being somewhat slow to friend back because I don't want a huge flist and a lot of people friending me to read my BSG stuff or see vids or something rather than to get to know me personally. I expect a fair number will de-friend me when BSG finishes and/or the fandom starts to break apart?

/NO DAMMIT IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!

But your LJ is totally interesting! No one else I know has a "lexicophilia" tag! :D

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Bah, I don't really understand twitter that much either (though it's surprisingly simple. It's not like there are options. You just type and hit the go button). But I'm glad you find it entertaining!

It's...surprisingly addictive. o_O

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I believe you'll find that being the only person with tag X doesn't make me "interesting" and in fact, by the normal rules of socialisation, it makes me "weird", heh.

I'm used to the fannish way of friending people for content more than sociability so it doesn't surprise me when consistently fannishly productive people have comparatively large "friend of" lists.