What is Twittering?

Occasionally I see a new person on twitter saying the same things I did when I first started twittering. \”What do you do with this thing?\” \”It seems so useless.\” \”What do I write?\”

What follows is a conversation I had with my husband over the first couple of days I started twittering.

Him: We need to tweet or die.
Me: What?
Him: We need to tweet. I\’m sending you an article on it.
Me. I have an account, I watch the guy on CNN, but I don\’t get it.
Him: What don\’t you get?
Me: What do people tweet about? What do I care if someone is going to the store?
Him: I\’m sending the article. Tweet or die.
……
Me: Somebody\’s \”following\” me.
Him: Who?
Me: I don\’t know, a doctor somebody. She\’s following me. I don\’t get it. What does she care if I\’m going to the store or not?
Him: Well, it\’s like having a conversation with someone in a room. Not everything is a pearl. You sit in a room with someone and you tell them, \”I\’ll be back in a few minutes.\”
Me: I don\’t get it.
……
Me: I\’m pathetic.
Him: What?
Me: I\’m a pathetic human being and it\’s all your fault.
Him: Oh dear god. What did I do?
Me: You said that we need to \”tweet or die\”
Him: Oh, and your tweeting?
Me: YES! It\’s pathetic!
Him: I thought you thought it was stupid?
Me: It IS stupid!
Him: But you\’re doing it.
Me: Yes! And you tell me \”tweet or die, tweet or die\” then you don\’t tweet!
Him: So you\’ve been tweeting all day?
Me: Well no, not all day, but enough to make me pathetic. Enough to say, \”Hey, how come nobody\’s tweeting?\” I have 6 followers you know.
Him: Well, that\’s impressive.
Me: Yeah, but the one person I should be tweeting with won\’t tweet with me!
Him: Who\’s that?
Me: Grace.
Him: Grace won\’t tweet with you? Why not?
Me: Because she\’s too busy on Facebook.
Him: Well you know, there\’s software now that will send all your tweets to your facebook page.
Me: Silence.
Me: That\’s pathetic.
Him: You knew it had to come, didn\’t you?
Me: I have to go. I don\’t know how I have time to feed the cats when I need to be tweeting. I\’ll talk to you later.
……
I\’m so pathetic. I\”m a pathetic human being. 😉