Dear 900+ people I followed on Twitter on Wednesday
Yes, I actually unfollowed all of you. Every one of you. Every. Single. One.
Having being yelled at for unfollowing people individually, both intentional (because I was under the impression I had a right to do so?) and unintentional (because twitter is a cock, and yell at me all you like, I know who I damn well unfollow intentionally) I got sick of your shit and decided to unfollow everyone in one go. See? Now you are all special. This is what you wanted, right?
It only took me about 22 seconds, and you know what? It was very fucking satisfying.
Thinking Clearer, Me x
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Dear 147 People (who at the time of writing I have since followed)
Many of you won’t even have noticed what’s happening, and that’s fine. To those who have thanked me for following them (back), you are more than welcome. I confess I haven’t “chosen you” for any reason, I’m literally working my way through the list of people I used to follow in a very random order. It’s much more fun that way.
Watching Your Tweets,
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Dear Infinite Number of People I haven’t followed (back yet)
Please. Stop. Guilt. Tripping. Me. It. Is. Not. Fun. In. Any. Way. Shape. Or. Form.
Whilst you might think you’re the only person doing it, you might just want to remember, that approx. 3,550 people follow me (and I still have no frigging idea why). If one person does it, yeah it’s kind of of funny. If all 3,550 people do it, well it just means you’ve joined a throng of sheep* who aren’t so funny after all.
If you ever want me to follow you? Whinging at me is a sure fire way to make sure I NEVER follow you.
Weary and wary, Me.
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Dear Twitterati
I’m not sure if you’re aware of it, but even though I’m not following you, it is still possible for us to converse. Added to this, there are other means of technology for us to converse, such as texts, phone calls, emails and of course the favourite social media methods being and .
There are bigger things in life than stressing over who the fuck follows who on twitter. If this is what your twitter experience has come down to, and you are that fickle, I honestly pity you. And you should also know, it turns out we really aren’t on the same wave length.
Which is kind of a shame.
cosmicgirlie
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Dear Social Media Users
For the love of lucifer, get over it already. And while you’re at it, get outside once in a while, too.
Much love, She Who Has Tasted The Real World xxx
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Dear Ms Kat
What delightful offerings do you have today? Shall we mosey on over and have a look? Maybe I’ll see you on twitter, eh?
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* I know it’s “flock of sheep”, but “throng of sheep” was what popped into mind, and I’m not one for stifling creativity.
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I prefer a Thong of Sheep
That's disturbing.
hahaha…and you put it all in perspective!
Bravo! xx
Oooh, you unfollowed everyone? Love that idea. Hmmm….
I prefer thong of sheep
I keep thinking Thong of Sheep tooo (*my eyes!!! My eyes!!!*)
SERIOUSLY disturbing.
It must have been quite liberating to unfollow all those people. So easy to unfollow, but not so easy to follow back. x
Indeed, Susan, because many of them I don't even want to follow, yet the expectation is there. I am FAR from being finished in following people (I can't do too many or twitter api shouts at me!) but it's certainly been eye opening.. x
Very brave of you! I am almost at the stage of deleting my twitter account completely. I waste hours on it, so have ignored it this week to prove to myself I can, but I can't quite hit that delete button… .Just yet!
Try what I did. Such a good way of restarting.
My question is – what application did you use to do it so quickly?? betting your @mentions are HUGE this week…
Click on the link where the text says "22 seconds", takes you straight to the prog.
Loved the asterisk about stifling creativity.
Well, I know I was chosen. I wasn't a random follow. I know I wasn't. I just know, OKAY. IT'S THOSE OTHER OUT OF CONTROL OTHERS THAT NEED WATCHING. THE CRAZEEEE ONES….WHICH SO ISN'T ME. *faints*
… *quietly unfollows again*….
By the time I saw your Tweets about this, you'd already reinstated 147 Twits. I couldn't bring myself to see if I was one of them, and I'm not saying a word now. You're a bit scary when you get on about this and I don't want to risk your wrath!
lmao @ 147 "Twits"
Aha! That explains everything! The choice of 'throng' over 'flock' of sheep, I mean… Oh, and you were saying something about Twitter…?
Lol
I didn’t take it personally – we can still see you, you batty, bad tempered, floral tongued woman. If you do, well hey all good and well – if you don’t, I’ll still read your tweets and hop in when it calls for to put my pennies worth in.
Stop being so popular and you won’t have so many whiners ha ha
Honie x
Quote : "Dear Social Media Users
For the love of lucifer, get over it already. And while you’re at it, get outside once in a while, too."
Hehe! I'm loving this
Because it's so true, right?
This is too funny. I couldn't even tell you who followed me let alone whether or not they STOPPED following me. Some people need to step away from the computer!
Exactly!
I have to admit, I took a vacation from the interwebs for the most part this week, so I missed all of this action. I did think it was a bit odd to see an e-mail telling me that you were now following, but just assumed that Twitter had shat the bed again. I would like to say thank you for thinking i was at all interesting enough to ever follow me in the first place, but to do a complete reboot, and still choose my name from a list so large, well, thank you seems inadequate.
I can't do twitter. Its too much for me. How does anyone have the time?
It was useful when I needed to find out what happened when the power went out in San diego a few weeks back, but as a social network tool I prefer facebook. All I use twitter for is to auto post links to my blog posts these days. Hope you can make it work for you the way you want it tol
*stands up and applauds*
Follow who the fuck you want and block the bastards who tell you otherwise!
*ahem*…just my 2 cents, like!
thongs of sheep! Love it! But wouldn't thongs on sheep pull on their wool and well… tug at em… poor sheep! oh think of the pain!
Good for you! I have quite a few twitter lists now that I use for easier reading of twitter of what I fancy at the time. Easier that way. I don't really care who unfollows me – or who doesn't follow me back… I follow them if I like what they have to say end of. Even if they don't reply to me when I @ message them now and then – I don't mind. They've got no obligation to follow/tweet me – even more so 'cause my profiles private so they can't do a quick check that I'm not a mentalist (which I probably am – but not in the spammy way hehe)
anyway *high 5* (and I haven't even checked if you refollowed me! go girl – twitter is meant to be fun – fuck the bitchiness – there's enough of that in folks "real life worlds")
must have felt really good. I'm not sure who all the 1500 people I follow actually are…. makes for an eclectic mix of tweets though
It DID feel really good. I got so sick of being yelled at for missing people's tweets (I just can't keep up with so many, dammit!) and moaned at for unfollowing individuals, everyone at the same time was far easier. As a result, I've found loads of more new awesome people to follow, and it's been very refreshing. Now I just wish people would not beg me to follow them back; it makes me uncomfortable. :-/