Daily Grumble

So you’ve just joined Twitter? You don’t want to look like a newbie with barely any friends, do you? No, that’s why you NEED Twitter Adder! Simply go to www.TwitterAdder.com, enter your Twitter username and password, and Twitter Adder will automatically add 20 random Twitterers! Fantastic, yes? No.

If you use Twitter Adder, you shouldn’t be on Twitter. It’s not the service for you. In my eyes, Twitter is about communicating with people you know, and people you find interesting across the interwebs. What’s interesting about 20 random Twitterers? You know nothing about them, and they know nothing about you. So what’s the point?

What’s worse, is that there’s no way of knowing whether a new follower is using Twitter Adder in order to find friends.

Whenever I add someone on Twitter, it’s usually a blogger that I have a genuine interest in what he/she writes about (or else someone I know in real life). Of course, there are times when I add someone I’ve never come across before, but first I read there tweets first to see if I’m interested in what they have to say. If not, I don’t add them.

I say we continue using Twitter as we always have, and leave these fools to TwitterAdd each other, whilst inflating their egos – “ZOMFG! I have 2312 friends! I’m uber. I’m 1337.”