Well hello there. Nice to see you online.
Here’s the deal: You need us. Twitter is totally the perfect forum for you. For your sparkling wit. For those lonely, bleak moments, chained to your cubicle, when you’re suddenly struck with the genius of your own humor.
Only there’s no one around to impress share it with. Your cubemate is at lunch and the “team” in Hydrabad hasn’t logged on yet. But we are here, tweeting, waiting to burst into raucous laughter at your one liner. Or sentimental tears at your words of inspiration.
Well on Twitter, you can follow people who tweet in ways that you enjoy, and they don’t have to follow you. And the opposite is true, too. People can relish your tweets and you can ignore their tweeting series on the silly antics of their wonderdog. (Okay, that *might* be me.)
To be clear though, this is really only a teeny, tiny indirect benefit. The real awesomeness that is Twitter comes from participating in a real connection with people, in an invigorating, life-enhancing two-way, or nineteen-way, banter. (That’s right, I am not ashamed to admit that I think Twitter is life-enhancing.)
And I’m not suggesting you become some kind of Twitter groupie. Only that there’s a possibility for the wit and wisdom of some complete stranger to bring joy to your day. And I am so not a Twitter groupie. Of @pistachio or @jonathanfields or @pamslim or …
(Okay, you really must go follow these people immediately. Especially @pistachio. She, like, wrote the book on Twitter. No, I’m totally freaking serious, not kidding. She wrote the book on Twitter.)
And these are really only the personal and social benefits of Twitter. I haven’t even mentioned Twitter’s potential for helping you find your people. You know, the people who need what you have to offer and the people who are offering what you happen to need. So just know that the potential exists and it’s huge.
There is also a group of you who actually are on Twitter, you just never say a single thing. Now really, this is the new version of blog lurking. And it’s fine. But I can basically guarantee that we will both have a better time if you speak up now and again.
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