My greed for twitter followers drove me to create a twitter account called AmirKhanTweets (after the megastar Amir Khan who recently broke all records with his film ‘3 idiots!’). Super.
I followed a krao so that it looked like Amir was following his wife Kiran. Great. I followed a few celebrities so that it looked like Amir was consorting with his equals. Excellent.
I sent a few oblique messages like ‘I am hoping the Chetan Bhagat controversy gets over amicably’ and others. Wunnerful. I got a few followers after a few days. Super again.
Then I got a DM (Direct Message for twitterignoramuses) ‘I am a great fan of yours sir’. Uh oh… Then I got another DM ‘Sir it is an honour to be sending you a message’. And I immediately deleted the account.
Why? Because I do not like to manipulate, influence or con people. Period. And these people were believing that they were talking to the real Amir… ughhh that was mega cheating. So I stopped being Amir Khan. (please don’t ask me why I started with this entire thing in the first place, I don’t know)
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Jan 8, 2010
Jan 7, 2010
I dream of Twitter
Yes I do. I dream of getting a few million followers and then making $10,000 per tweet like Kim Kardashian. Not withstanding the facts that I have only 3,000 followers and I’m not a sexy star like Kim Kardashian, just a hairy chested man. But I dream of Twitter.
Sometimes I dream that I send a tweet and hundreds of thousands rush to the sweet little url I have created with bit.ly and check out my blog, which then gets so many hits that my ranking in Alexa hits a couple of hundreds. Ooooh I can hear the money flowing in like Amazon (the river).
We should all dream of Twitter, it’s what makes the Internet so interesting… and frustrating.
Sometimes I dream that I send a tweet and hundreds of thousands rush to the sweet little url I have created with bit.ly and check out my blog, which then gets so many hits that my ranking in Alexa hits a couple of hundreds. Ooooh I can hear the money flowing in like Amazon (the river).
We should all dream of Twitter, it’s what makes the Internet so interesting… and frustrating.
The Tweet Tweeter of Hamelin!
All the rats followed the Pied Piper of Hamelin as he played his pipe, but how does one get thousands of followers in Twitter. By behaving like the Tweet Tweeter of Hamelin of course.
You have to play a tune that attracts followers in droves.
That tune that you play, is the overall nature of your tweets, whether about technology or about cars or whatever. Find your space and your tune and play (tweet) on.
Of course if you are a celebrity, the rules are different, then you just have to tweet any and everything and you will have millions following you.
Sending tweets that are useful, informative and simple is a thumb rule that will get you followers. You should also engage with your followers as much as possible, that’s what buzzes everything up.
Here’s to you, the Tweet Tweeter of Twitter!
You have to play a tune that attracts followers in droves.
That tune that you play, is the overall nature of your tweets, whether about technology or about cars or whatever. Find your space and your tune and play (tweet) on.
Of course if you are a celebrity, the rules are different, then you just have to tweet any and everything and you will have millions following you.
Sending tweets that are useful, informative and simple is a thumb rule that will get you followers. You should also engage with your followers as much as possible, that’s what buzzes everything up.
Here’s to you, the Tweet Tweeter of Twitter!
May 31, 2009
Life's a tweet
Title: Life's a tweet
Medium: Ink on white paper
Size: 12" X 8"
Date of creation: 2009 May
I began with the people, then the weights came and then the bird with the tweets. It just became an abstract rendition of the twitter phenomenon. By the way do you twitter? I do, and I'd love it if you followed my tweets, by clicking here!
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