I haven’t used facebook for about a month.
Not because twitter is better, or because facebook sucks. It’s because I want to manage less. Twitter is easy, I say something, chat with people when I feel like it, and ignore it when I want to.
Facebook is different. signing in, I am overloaded with requests, invitations, games, and nonsense that i would never normally care about.
Now I understand many people use facebook as the primary means of connecting and interacting with people, and I think that sucks. If a friend needs to contact me, they can call, text, or email me. I wasn’t on facebook 24/7, so it’s not very efficient in telling me anything of importance.
“friending” vs. “following”
The terminology seems more selfish for twitter, but twitter is much more than an ego boost, (right). It’s a chat room. and only 1 chat room. not a chat for every mundane piece of information ever.
Carlo and his Imposter is the side by side presentation of both my twitter account, and the twitter account of my impostor.
This website pulls in two rss feeds from twitter and displays them side buy side. That’s it! It uses Wordpress with the Simple Pie Core and WP-O-Matic plug-ins.
Twitter Impostors are a common occurrence on the social networking site. Users create a username resembling, or copying, the name of a celebrity and pretend to be them. Some notable ones are: Vladimir Putin, Tina Fey, and Rahm Emanuel. These accounts often get exposed, and sometimes are even endorsed by the celebrity.
Ghost Tweeters are a less noble breed. Typically, a celebrity will have their own account but will be unable/unwilling to manage it. Ghost Tweeters are similar to ghost writers, they write all of the tweets for that person.
I decided to ask a ghost tweeter to manage the account of my impostor. Why might you ask? Why not?
I’ve decided that I will talk directly to President Barack Obama via his twitter.
http://twitter.com/augiemania