I remember being alerted to Twitter about 3 years ago by an early adopter (nee geek) telling me it was micro blogging. As I hatted blogging, only doing it perfunctorily when it became part of my contract at the internet startup I was presenting for, I nodded vaguely and went in search of stealing someones bread from the communal fridge.
Then when the Twitter revolution of 08 came to pass I thought I’d give it a go. I signed up and made a couple of ‘Tweets’, but put that little exercise on hold when I found that Big Brother winner Kate Lawler who I was working with at the time at Kerrang Radio followed my lead, signed up and accelerated to over 10 000 followers in about a week. I had four. One was my mum.
And so it stayed in stasis till I got binned off from Kerrang and found myself sat around in my pants in my flat in Birmingham, and I decided that maybe twittering would get me out of my funk, at the very least it would be free therapy. I also realised I could blag free games from PR companies with a big GTwitter following.
And so I came to learn twitter is a fantastic medium. Something that has been proved by countless previous articles on its power to connect the world in 140 character. From circumnavigating oppressive regimes in Iran as well as also circumnavigating the slightly more oppressive regimes in PR representatives of the worlds A lists but being the fanzine of our times. The jungle drums for those with week wrists.
So I have Twittered like a JustinBieber fan (@JustinBieber, 1.5 million followers and growing) sometimes spending whole evening while in bed waiting sleep to take me creating mini comic 140 character novels. Non syllable specific haikus of such delicacy that it gets ‘me‘ across in such tight literary circumstances. They say boundaries help the most creative of minds.
And what has this feat of lyrical writing done for me?
174 followers. I did have 176 yesterday but I seem to have lost 2 overnight (maybe my comment on Gillian Anderson winning the worlds sexiest woman title was down to equal opportunities went down badly with the X-files contingent of my flock. Or maybe they were ginger)
So, as a Twitter Nobody with an ego to service I beseech you to follow me. Or at least until I overtake Kate Lawler.
Twitter.com/OJBorg
