Yet another idiotic post about followers. Or post about idiotic followers.
Let me start this post off with the following declaration: I don't care about follower numbers. I care about people.
I am on twitter to have a good time. Not to talk about twitter. No more than I talk about my e71 when I am talking on it. Similarly, I care very little about official follower lists, #followfriday, or anything else that has the word follow in it. That said, I am deeply flattered when people like @sethsimonds write a blog post and talk about me there. He has such an amazing sense of timing. I follow people who interact with me, or whom I find extremely interesting. I follow people whom I live through vicariously (they usually have these thing called "jobs"). I follow people who make me think, laugh, or blush. But I don't feel any compulsion to share who I follow. If you see that I retweet someone, or I have extended conversations with someone, you know who I would suggest. That said: if you like extremely random conversations, follow @ozsultan. The only reason why I have to tell you to follow him, is so you will see the grassroots efforts that we are working to share the morals of hummus with the entire world. If you don't like following a bi-weekly 1.5 hour conversation between myself and Mr. Sultan, you should not follow him. I have made a conscious decision to stop tweeting any link to anything about twitter or following people. Unless, of course, it is self-serving. (The one caveat to this rule is if I am drinking, I have been known to tweet the names of the startup that provided me with the alcohol. This could be @poketalk, @tracx, or @ginipic. This is called "Transparency".)We all remember back when Ashton Kutcher "beat" CNN in the famous race to a million and when Oprah "joined" Twitter. Some may also remember when @Shidurey "beat" Ynetnews in a race to a thousand followers. I was bored by the inherent stupidity of the races. (But I love @Yosit like a brother, so I followed the race with unbridled excitement.)
A good friend of mine, Guy Malachi, a.k.a @guy just challenged a friend of his (@TzahiRo) to a duel. The terms are simple. Whoever reaches 1 million followers first receives the loser's paycheck. Don't get me wrong. Guy is a really really smart guy. Good looking too. He is the chief geek at Conduit which has hundreds of millions of impressions for their customized toolbars. A cool million is a simple number for him to utter. I cannot condone this behavior, and I refuse to tweet about it. This is not beneficial to world peace like the #jewishmuslimxgames. This simply is all about the ego of 2 friends. My suggestion to the two competitors is to do something to deserve the listening ears of the million adoring fans. Launch a product that people will be unable to live without. That will make the race interesting. It will also guarantee that we won't have to wait until they are both living in an old age home before collecting the prize. (It will also mean that the prize money will be a lot more substantial.) Earn my follow. Alternately, they can become rockstars. I follow @ivrilider and @markhoppus. Or, as I always say, if that doesn't work out, try being a @god. I heard that there is good money in it.(BTW: if you have made it down to the bottom of this, then you have to see this tweet. Personally I find it hilarious: http://twitter.com/ezrabutler/statuses/1753439837 If you don't find it funny, you seriously lack a sense of humor.)
