This has to be quick because I’m about to meet some friends for lunch, but there is one very important-yet-simultaneously-inconsequential thing I want to share with you before I forget:
I still haven’t really gotten the hang of posting on Twitter, but I am increasingly fascinated with reading it. And this is after about a year of being on the Twitter fence.
However, I now consider myself a bit of a fledgling Twitter fan.
Because remember? In junior high? When you’d call a friend and say “what are you doing?” and you felt better just knowing that your friend was, oh, writing Rick Springfield’s name all over her notebooks?
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT TWITTER REMINDS ME OF.
It’s like having access to a junior high party line, only the people on the party line are, you know, grown, and also, they’re not nearly as catty.
So if you Twitter, why not leave your Twitter link in my comments? Make sure you only leave one link – otherwise the spam filter will think you are trying to sell some sort of medicinal product. But if you leave a link, then people can click on that link and follow you and know when you’re writing Rick Springfield’s name on your notebooks.
Only I know you’re not writing Rick Springfield’s name on your notebooks anymore.
Because, DUH, you’re totally into Zac Efron now.
GAH.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:14 am
twitter.com/stephanieshep
It IS a little like junior high, isn’t it? :)
May 20th, 2008 at 11:17 am
twitter.com/laru
Oh, how I love the Twitter. I was so excited when I discovered you twittered as well. Although my friends and family are starting to wonder why I’m bursting out with loud guffaws whenever I check my text messages.
Oh well, small price to pay.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:25 am
twitter.com/lisaanniepants
May 20th, 2008 at 11:36 am
http://twitter.com/mclanek
May 20th, 2008 at 11:44 am
http://twitter.com/MsJennyBPants
Did you know that you can get your tweets sent to your phone.
Twitter has made it so my husband and I hardly talk to each other (jk) but for those of us who LOVE reality tv and such it’s a problem.
I love this – it is exactly like calling your friends for no reason. One of my girlfriends and I used to talk about nothing for DAYS…
May 20th, 2008 at 11:45 am
http://twitter.com/greatestmommy
Love it, though it does slow down laundry productivity.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I dont twitter :( but you killed me with that GAH at the end there! still laughing!
May 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Well, as usual, I am so TOTALLY out of the loop. The only twittering I’ve done was when my heart went all a-twitter this morning when I took my first bite of Pioneer Woman’s Apricot bars (which were actually rasberry since I didn’t have any apricot preserves in the cupboard). Okay, so I’m clueless. I have no idea what Twitter is. Off to google….
May 20th, 2008 at 11:58 am
http://twitter.com/chocolatejunky
so excited to have more people to follow! I do think it’s fun to follow people who’s lives I find interesting or who’s blogs I read (wink), but I find it a little creepy to see/find out who are following me. Some of them seem a bit like ‘people collectors’ trying to see how many people they can follow.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:59 am
http://twitter.com/lesliecardwell
May 20th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Ummm, I’d still be writing Rick Springfield’s name all over my notebook.
NOT a Zac Efron fan. He kinda gives me the creeps.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I love me some Twitter!
twitter.com/mindysaid
May 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
http://twitter.com/snowjunkie
May 20th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I am gonna have to give in to the Junior High Peer pressure and go do the twitter thing. I’m sort of afraid that if I do that with my blogging, I will never get off the computer :o)
May 20th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I’m still not totally sure about Twitter. I check it sometimes, when I remember that I have it. And I get all confused about who is doing what. And does anyone really want to know that I’m cleaning poop out of the carseat after a blow up diaper in the Walmart’s parking lot?
Oh, they do? I should write that then.
http://twitter.com/livelaughblog
May 20th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
it looks as if you may have crashed the twitter site with all the traffic you have generated. =)
twitter.com/chocolatejunky
May 20th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
http://twitter.com/mjandpata
Love Twitter!!
May 20th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Oh boomama, I’m still on the twitter fence just as you are on the Facebook fence. How much time does this take? I have deadlines, ya know.
In the spirit of middle school, I’ll agree to twitter if you agree to Facebook. And btw, Facebook will allow you to post your twitter updates in the margin. Because they are twitter-friendly. And everyone who twitters has a Facebook. How’s that for peer pressure?
May 20th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
http://twitter.com/brodyharper
May 20th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I follow you on twitter already. Here’s my URL
http://twitter.com/mandycon
May 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
twitter.com/likeiwasaying
I’m not sure I’m a big fan of Twitter just yet. Can’t see how it’s adding any value to my already non-productive life. I guess I just like doing what all the cool kids are doing.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I’m hopelessly addicted, as well.
twitter.com/eerriinn
May 20th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
twitter.com/lisareid
I’ve been following you for a while now. Fun, isn’t it? I just think it’s interesting to see what people are doing throughout their day… although I’m not so great at updating (I’m trying to remember, really I am!).
May 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
i’m very new at the whole twitter thing. not sure i like it.
http://twitter.com/afamiliarpath
May 20th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
twitter.com/WeareTHATfamily
May 20th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
http://twitter.com/taterandtot
And just like junior high in real life, as hard as I try, no one talks back to me.
Those were the worst 2 years of my life.
And I’ve been paralyzed, people, so I’ve had some bad years.
That is all.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
http://twitter.com/Chelle_Wargo
I have to tell you- I’ve been using Twitter pretty frequently… updating and following… and yet I had no idea what my “Twitter Link” was.
I’m guessing it’s what’s above as it seems like what everyone else wrote.
How truly highschool was that? “I guess that’s it… everyone else is doing it.”
Nice.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
http://twitter.com/thelizness
I tweet because it’s a blog post in 160 characters or less. No pressure for a catchy title or pictures :)
May 20th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
My hubby thinks I’m a pathetic twitterer. I update about once every 6 days. Kind of defeats the purpose.
http://twitter.com/marlataviano
May 20th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I love Twitter. I wish I had more time for it.
http://twitter.com/rubialala
May 20th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
This is fun!
http://twitter.com/pmdteapots
I’m brand spanking new at this whole tweeting thingy — less than a day. I know just enough to be dangerous, but I’d love to know you’re into Zac Efron anyway . . . or the last thing you had slathered in butter . . . or fried chicken . . . or whatever : )
May 20th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
http://twitter.com/lesliebrooke
I <3 twitter! I may have to stop following Carlos though, b/c he twitters every 1.345 seconds!
May 20th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I’m not very good at twittering, but I’m working on it.
http://twitter.com/callapidder
May 20th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
“I’m on Twitter, you’re on Twitter, wouldn’t you like to be on Twitter, too?”
http://twitter.com/themotherload
May 20th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
http://twitter.com/brandiandboys
I started following you yesterday as a matter of fact! I love it too, my husband and I are both addicted!
May 20th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
twitter.com/sparksfley
May 20th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Three cheers for Twitter fans!
http://twitter.com/spicymagnolia
May 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
http://twitter.com/dailydwelling
I’m just starting again. My husband was doing it before he deployed…silly military computers won’t let him on now!
May 20th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
good example!
it is kinda funny how FUN it is!
http://twitter.com/purplesahm
May 20th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Okay, I don’t Twitter, but I was TOTALLY the one who had Rick Springfield’s cut out pictures (from Tiger Beat magazine) hodge podged on my notebook – in HIGH SCHOOL! ‘Cause I was real mature back then. Little did I know that was just a precursor to my Crafty Mommy Madness.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Okey dokey, I just signed up:
https://twitter.com/LenaDianeJ
BTW, what happened to your twitter update box that was in your sidebar? Did you think it was just too much? I enjoyed reading it even before you sucked me in to signing up.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Have scrutinized this post six ways to Sunday and cannot find a single reference to Gidget. (Pouts)
http://twitter.com/FriedOkra
May 20th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Yeah for Twitter fans!
http://twitter.com/spicymagnolia
May 20th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I’m, like, so all about twitter.
http://twitter.com/ylimewitt
May 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
BooMama, This comment has nothing to do with Twitter, but I thought I’d post this comment before your next giveaway! You might be (accidentally!) leaving out two people from your giveaways. When you tell the random counter to choose a number between 1 and 327 (the number of commentors in your last giveaway), you may be omitting the 1st and last entrant. You might need to tell the random counter to pick a number between 0 and 328! But, maybe your random counter is extremely smart (and I’m sure it is!), and it may include those two numbers as well. I know this is sort of (ok, not sort of, but totally) a geeky comment to make, but my college professor of statistics would be so proud! Keep up the bloggerificness!
May 20th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Ok. This is the 4th post about Twitter in a day and a half (including my own). I had a dream last night that I was on it (I’m not). I’ve tried a few times to explain it to Headless Dad.
GAH! Talk about peer pressure!
May 20th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
http://twitter.com/jenidvm
May 20th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
http://twitter.com/pensieverocks
Which I’m EMBARRASSED to have as a name, but PENSIEVE was taken, and I was scared to use my gmail (pensieve.love) and “Robin” was taken, too…but it looks like “Pensi Ever Ocks” which just sounds WRONG!
But, because I’m techie impaired…changing it now isn’t even a consideration….
Do ya ever want a mulligan when it comes to blogging et al????
:)
May 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
http://twitter.com/swtbamamamaof2
May 20th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
http://twitter.com/tinkamarink
I’m a total twitteraholic. I read and reply more than I post my own stuff but I still love it.