Twenty minutes later, the following post was sitting in my email inbox. She does good work on such short notice."Lead, follow, or get out of the way..." --Ted Turner
I have been on twitter for more than 6 months now, I think. I've had over 600 updates and I have a small, but eclectic following. Twitter has connected me with celebs and like-minded individuals, both of which are hard to find in and around South Carolina.
First of all, my last name starts with Mc...so my twitter name is Mc_Mandy b.c I think Mandy_Mc was taken. Apparently some people think I am an emcee--like a rapper...I have several DJs and up and coming rap artists following me. I hope that I have not disappointed them when they searched for MC's. [rapper or not you can follow me @Mc_Mandy, I don't bite.]
I follow a wide range of people, but I would say most of the people I follow are of the celebrity variety. My most favorite follow has to be Ice T. @finallevel has become not just a platform for Ice T to speak to his fans, but his followers have now officially become a Twitter Gang. Sometimes there are people who we have to bang on--don't mess with Ice or you'll get some serious FLTG [final level twitter game] @ hate messages. Also, Ice T does bubble tweets and live chats. I just think that it's really awesome to connect to a celebrity on that kind of a level. He's never @'d me, but I have faith that it will happen soon.
Another person I follow is @keyinfluencer. Eric [@ebigness] tweeted one night that he was in @keyinfluencer's tiny chat listening to him DJ. This past week I spent my Friday night in the tiny chat listening to key play some serious jams. I also got to chat with a lot of cool people in the DC and ATL areas. (I think that's where most of key's followers are from or something, b.c I do not know why DC and ATL would go together...) In this chat I got about 4 new follows/followers and something amazing happened...I realized that I was the only white kid in that chat room. No one cared and they still chose to follow me after being outed as a casper. Racial boundaries have been blurred thanks to twitter. (That is...until the #BET awards. I live tweeted this event and gained more followers and saw many of the topics I was tweeting on trend...apparently those trends were not well recieved and thus we have the site http://omgblackpeople.tumblr.com -- I think it's been removed though. The premise of the site was tweets from unhappy white folks that the interwebs had been intergrated.)
I've also been able to do something that @TOPolk has been doing for a while--actually CONNECTING with other bloggers. You read their stuff, but now you can talk to them in real time (or however quick tweet deck refreshes) and become non-IRL friends. Some shameless plugs for some of my new blog friends ---> http://sincerelyandy.tumblr.com/ Andy V's Tumblr (my friend from Tumblr who happens to have relatives in SC near our Dear Old Clemson) and Danny Denhard's Beta Labs http://blog.betalabs.co.uk/ (@betalabs...we were united by DJ White Shadow @djws on #ff) [Editor's note: #ff is short for #FollowFriday -- Each Friday many Twitter users suggest people of interest that they think their followers should follow as well.]
If you haven't begun to follow the trend and jump on the twitter boat, you're missing out. New Friends, Access to Celebs in a way we've never known, and ways to connect to people you may otherwise never meet--what's not to love? Also, if you're into that kind of thing, you can find porn spammers on twitter, too. Not my thing, but that's the last piece of advice I have on the subject of twitter.
xoxo,
M
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