Thursday, April 25, 2013

I Am Twitter Challenged…I Feel Like A Twee-Dork!


OK people in the blogosphere…today’s rant is about a little social network application called Twitter, that I shamelessly created an account on, to try to connect to more readers, only to find out…that yes…I  am a Twee-tard!  WTF is up with that?  So here is what happened…I was reading some articles on the great WWW on some “helpful” hints geared towards how to get your blog circulated more, get more followers , yadda, yadda, yadda, and almost all of them said to create a Twitter account.  So that is what I did…BUT now I have NO clue what to do with it!  I am such a dork!   So let me just break it down to you all in blogger land, I (being the whacked out engineer that I am), decided that I am going to learn all about this Twitter thingy and how to use it!  I tell myself, that I am an engineer for crying out loud, how hard can this be right?  I solve some seriously intense and difficult problems every day…this is going to be a piece of cake right?!  Yeah…not so much…and  (because I am a perfectionist control freak), I don’t want to break any Twitter etiquette rules so I found myself blurry eyed and over caffeinated in the wee hours of the morning trying to learn all that I can about tweeting only to find out that I am 100% Tweet-tarded!  I am such a Twee-dork that I am actually scared to use the stupid thing for fear that I am going to Tweet out to someone and that they are going to Twee-scream back that I broke some sacred tweet rule and that I should not have tweeted that random crap out to the Tweetosphere (don’t know if that really exists but I am on a Tweet themed roll here so whatever!).  That crap is so confusing!  So I have decided that instead of Twitter, I am going to just shout out one liner BLARTS (Blog verbal gaseous nonsense a.k.a farts) to all of you in the blogosphere because that is so much easier than using Twitter!  Thinking that the interface might be tricky though…hmmm…instead of hash tags I could have a roll of TP and then a random word, that catches my eye so that if you are following me you can re-BLART out to each other and share with one another my random BLART comment and all you would have to do is click on the roll of TP!!  HA! HA! Thinking I could use emoticons in my BLART outs to get my point across without saying ANYTHING…like when you combine the sheep emoticon with the blocks you get a shitting bricks effect…GENIUS!!!!  I am sooooo going to patent this idea…it will be the next competitor to Twitter but soooo much easier…thinking those dudes on Twitter should have been nicer to me when I called their 1-800-tweet-challenged hot line asking for help and they HUNG UP ON ME for being too old and stupid to understand their social network! Bastards!  Also thinking that maybe I should suggest to them that they need to create some kind of Tweet picture book or maybe a paint by number tutorial that explains it all to me…because this old ass CHICKEN is Twitter challenged that is for sure!  So all of you out in the blogosphere…can someone tell me how to use that crap because I can tell you that I have tweeted twice now, and even though I did not get Twee-yelled at, I was sweating the whole time my cursor was hovering over the “Tweet” button because I didn’t know if I was going to get some nasty little “Tweet-o-gram” telling me that I have violated some Twitter rule or if I was going to get a virtual Tweet slap for tweeting something that I shouldn’t have!  Sheesh…just another reason why getting old SUCKS…if I can’t understand “The Tweets” then what is next?  Ben Gay and some comfort hose are in my Amazon shopping cart just waiting for me to click my way down to where they send old people that can’t figure out technology…why yes they call it Twitterville!  WTF?  Who doesn’t know how to use Twitter?  Apparently that would be me…sigh…

What am I listening to as I rant in this bloggary:  I’m Like A Bird, by Nelly Furtado.

10 comments:

  1. This post is funny I felt the same about twitter, still do but you'll get the hang of it - I've found you and following you now:)

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    1. Thanks for following me! :) I wanted to give you an update as to my Twitter status...I have like 3 followers and I have NO clue who they are! Even sadder is that 2 of the three are companies (that must know that I am a shopaholic) and just want to sell me their crap! So depressing...this must be how Lisa Simpson felt when she was describing how the "one handed clap" sounds/feels like! You know like it sounds like hmmmm...nothing! Sheesh! So confusing! :)

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  2. Right there with ya! I ask my kids, (who do not have twitter accounts btw- but have it figured out in about 10 seconds!)but I still kind of freak a little every time I hit that post or tweet button. Maybe we need a support group. ;)

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    1. A support group is a fabulous idea! We could create a little picture pop-up book tutorial with little stick figures (with confused faces) and stick birds to describe how it all fits together to help people cope with being Twee-tarded! GENIUS! This idea is a KEEPER! HA! :)

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    2. Ok, here's some "support" for you...I will follow you on Twitter, but I don't see a button, so name please...or you can follow me and I will follow back. Also, there is a linky twitter party (who knew!)at Diana Rambles right now. It is a must follow party so you will end up with like 50 followers today! I didn't link up, I'm lazy, but if you want instant followers that's the way to go! Good luck and love your blog...you are funny!

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    3. Hey Thanks Kim! I just followed you on Twitter...so you should see me pop up on your following list! Thanks for the tip...heading on over to Diana Rambles right now to see how I can get more followers! I am glad that somebody thinks I'm funny...because my husband (oddly enough) doesn't think that I am funny at all! Hmmmm...wonder why that is! ;) HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!

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  3. Hello I am stopping by from the Newbie Bloggers Club. I am also not very good at the Twitter. I am working on it but very slowly. Don’t worry I am sure that you will get the hang of it.

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    1. Thanks! I just have NO clue what I am doing with it...so I feel like if I do something wrong that I am going to get a Twitter-Howler...you know how like on Harry Potter the letter would start yelling at you? I am envisioning something similar but instead of a big ol' mouth I am thinking a big ol' beak squawking at me that I "Twittered" something up! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! I clearly need therapy! ;)

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  4. Lol I was reading this in a waiting room and couldn't wait to get home to comment. I'm the same way about twitter; I just hooked up my blog to it and just let my 'blog' do my tweets...so is that then twogging?!!! lol

    Hay! I've had to recently use ben gay it was for my facebook farmville finger! No joke, sadly. Lol.

    Don't feel bad, I think you have to be a Tween to completely understand it! Sorry they hung up on you though-rude.

    Glad I stopped by and signed up for the twitter party and found your blog! I look forward to reading more!

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  5. TWOGGING!!! That is classic! :) I, sadly enough, just have to come to the realization that I might be TOO OLD to understand "The Tweety" concept!!! I might just have to start Tweeting out random crap and hopefully nobody will get bent and TWEE-YELL back that I had a senior moment! Sheesh! I am SO GLAD that you found my blog...I hope that I can entertain you for awhile with my random BLARTS and stupid crap that swirls around in this vacuous OLD head of mine! ;)

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