Everyone complains how Twitter sucks but that’s because it’s hard to get into if:
- You’re not into the social media scene.
- You don’t understand the benefits of Twitter (or just the web in general).
- You don’t know any interesting/helpful people to follow.
- You think Twitter is only about “what you’re doing.”
- You only joined Twitter to follow celebrities.
I think it took me about 2 months to really get into it but once I did, it took over my life!! 
Why?
- Up to the second news updates … and most importantly: K-Pop updates. Now I’ll know when and where Taeyang is flaunting his smexy abs even when I’m in the washroom.
- Great time-killer when you’re stuck in traffic for 3 hours. ‘Course I put my Blackberry down when it starts moving again… I want to punch people who use their phones while driving (they’re like those people who insists they can drive when they’re obviously wasted).
- Interacting— I’ve met so many cool and funny people on Twitter. We may never meet in real life but at least our 140-word exchanges kept those couple minutes of my life entertained.
- Ask a question, get an answer.
- Shameless plugs to my blogs and other projects (thatIhaventouchedinagazillionyears).
- Interesting articles, funny quotes, inspiring people.
I use Twitter for fun and I don’t take it seriously nor is the number of followers important to me so with that in mind, here are some things that I realized:
- Nobody cares if you’re brushing your teeth at the moment but people will if you can tweet about that and make it funny. Eg. “I’m brushing my teeth and a spider just crawled up my ass.” Okay, that’s not even funny— just plain gross but if I read that, I’ll be laughing my ass off to your misfortune. :blush:
- My confession: Sometimes I only click on Twitter’ers with interesting looking avatars. Image is everything when it comes down to a 24×24 pixel square!
- Don’t think you’re all that because you have tons of followers. I bet 75% of mine are spam and don’t even read my tweets. Same goes for most of you.
- For some reason, we are all attracted to haters… they make the world interesting. I like controversial Twitter’ers.
- I’m sorry, but hash tags are soo annoying because most people don’t use them properly. Plus they’re kind of pointless when you click on the trending topic and it’s filled with people going “WTF is a #monkeyfruit?!” I’m guilty of doing that once.
- If you need more than 5 tweets to complete one thought, just publish it on your blog!!
Other Twittery links:
- The 5 Stages Of Twitter Acceptance
- The 46 stages of Twitter
- How to explain… Twitter is not a waste of time
Anyway, I hate the term “Twitter’er” but have been too lazy to make up my own.
What do you call people who tweet?
You can follow me on Twitter here!
KATY:
Tweeps? Tweeple? Twitteratis?
I love goofing around twitter 
REPLY
Aww I like the term Twitterer.
I forget who used it, but they said “tweethearts” and I loved it. Was it Sy? I forget.
You should do a review on Twitter apps next.
:drunk: <– hehe cute face!
REPLY
LOL! A spider crawled up my ass?? Hahaha!
I am SO addicted Twitter. This is probably because I’m a lazy blogger.. why blog when one can Tweet? ^_^ Plus, you can get feedback instantly on there. & as a news & politics addict, I really, really like getting info in a snap.
REPLY
tweetterian? haha
REPLY
I love the trivial stuff actually. And I especially love twitpic. It’s kinda of neat to see what my net friends and acquaintances are up to — gives you a little peak into their lives (that you usually can’t get from blog entries). And the fact that it is in realtime makes it even more fun.
REPLY
Twitter is awesome. I don’t understand why people are so negative about it. Twitter only been around for a year or two now, but it has become such a powerful media tool, as proven in the last few months!
REPLY
I don’t know what I call people who Tweet, but I definitely use tweet as a verb instead of, “I just twittered.”
I started using Twitter to put the RSS feed on my blog, and it’s great. Micro-blogging is fun, but I really dislike 30+ updates a day from one person! And I block spam followers lol.
REPLY
Heheheh I am absolutely hooked on Twitter!
I like your last piece of advice, about how you need to just BLOG a thought that takes more than 5 Tweets to express!
REPLY
i’m also guilty of first hating twitter, and then falling in love with it! =P
REPLY
Haha cool post Katy! Twitter for me is very important for news. I only sort of “read” those that catch my eye then ignore the rest. lolz!
REPLY
I DO like Twitter but it hasn’t taken over in my country, yet. Therefore none of my friends have Twitter accounts and so the ones I do follow on twitter are my online frieds, who’s blogs etc. I read so their Tweets don’t give me much..
REPLY
a twat! I’m just kidding
REPLY
I LOVE this post! I hate people that knock Twitter because they think it’s a waste of time, but honestly? They just don’t know how to use it.
REPLY
I’m not as cool as everyone here. LOL. I don’t twitter & I’m not a twitterer haha. But I have a few good reasons. #1) I spend most of my time at work and its blocked. #2) My phone hates twitter for some reason and loads everything retarded (I use it to find out where kogibbq is going to be at next. ps. Its a korean bbq taco truck!) #3) My tumblr has taken over my life & I don’t know if I can handle another one. haha JK. Well tumblr isn’t blocked at work .. yet .. sooo that’ll be my “twitter” for now. haha
REPLY
i LLOOOVVEEE twitter…i remember when it first came out and i was like oh just watch give it some time and all the non-web-obsessed people will be using it too. i just wish i could get my friends into it…i would love to be able to follow the trivial happenings in the lives of people i see once a week.
REPLY
I Love twitter!!! I’ve met some cool tweeps! You being one of them!!
REPLY
In full agreement. It took me a while to get on the Twitter train, I thought it was stupid and couldn’t see the benefits. But I’ve learned so much from so many people and discovered so many interesting sights! I’m glad I’m on and I’m a bit of a twitter addict myself!
REPLY