I have never fully grasped the nature of the culture on Twitter. I am proud that I'm at just about 7,500 followers, but my number is dwarfed by those who seem to type nothing but nonsense. I just shrug it off; I'm happy for the world to pass me by in this respect.
I was reminded of this earlier today, since ZeroHedge linked to the term "$up". Out of curiousity, I clicked it and was presented with what I normally see when I venture anywhere outside the financial blogosphere of Twitter…….a bunch of ghetto-moron-slang-crap:
(ProTip: "PrettyLesbian" is a partial misnomer; I checked.)
Since almost every search one attempts on Twitter yields similar nonsense, I tried to think of the most Tim-like (white-boy nerd) phrase, and I came up with something I utter from time to time – 'good heavens!' – which, in my mind, has the same punch as 'cocksucker!' (the latter of which would surely yield a different set of results). In any case:
I'm delighted to see I'm not the only suburban dork on the web. Word.
