I’ve been online since 1981. I was on BBS systems back in the days of dial-up 300 baud acoustic modems. You’d think I’d have the whole online thing nailed by now, but I don’t. I am not the least bit clever about how, for example, I make use of my Twitter account.
I’ve got about 21,400 followers, which I guess isn’t terrible. But even a brief glance around Twitter reveals 15 year olds who have accomplished absolutely nothing who have way more followers than I do. I honestly just don’t know what I’m doing.
As such, when I send out a tweet, it typically gets just a sprinkling of Likes and Retweets, and maybe a comment or two.
I’ve sent out literally tens of thousands of tweets, and they are the kind of whiny, bitchy, pissy thoughts that you’d fully expect from me.
I sent off yet another one this morning, but something really bizarre happened:
This one didn’t get a dozen likes. It got over 2,000. And it didn’t get the normal one or two retweets. It got over 800.
I’m not going to even look at the comments, because I know plenty of them will be along the lines of “I usually don’t agree with what you say, but…..…..’ which to my mind is similar to “I’m not a racist, but……....” In other words, people usually just grit their teeth and ignore me, but this time they’ll throw me a kudo.
In any case, for once in my life, I’ve gone viral (in a minuscule way). I only hope I don’t spend all that sweet, sweet, Twitter revenue too quickly.
