Twitter amuses me and proves people are strange.
 

As I look around twitter I noticed something today. Joel Madden (singer for the band Good Charlotte) has around 187K followers on twitter. His girlfriend Nicole Richie has more than twice that many at 428K. So to me this means that more people are interested in hearing what someone who is famous for being the daughter of someone famous has to say than someone who has built something from nothing and become successful on his own. I'm not a huge Good Charlotte fan, but I guess i just amuses me that Nicole Richie is so popular.

Paris Hilton has around 240K followers. How in the fuck are there 240,000 people out there that want to know what Paris is thinking and doing all day?

surprised that it is only double, she is waaaay more famous than he is

Now that is funny....:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I have to agree with you. If you walk around on the street and ask who she is a lot more people will know her name than his.

i find twitter to be pointless. why do i want everyone to know wtf im doing all day, every day. not just me, but i could give two shits less what paris hilton and nicole richie are doing on any given day unless it involves anal eze + double ended dildo :winkwink:

If they shared a double ended dildo I would follow them :)

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

People lead very empty lives. I guess I do to but I know constant updates from Twitter or Facebook won't fill that void. Most people think it will.

They just want constant updates to make it seem like their lives are moving forward and they are a part of something.

I remember when e-mail first became popular for the masses and everyone loved hearing that "You've got mail" phrase from AOL. It almost gave people a happy Pavlovian response. I even think they ran a TV ad with people talking about how they felt so good whenever they heard that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not above it, I would love logging on and after hearing that modem screaching away for a minute or more and then hearing "You've got mail" and I got all excited.

But e-mail is only a few times a day. So now everyone needs to see if their friends updated their facebook page every hour, or made a comment about them. They need to see if they got a new follower on Twitter. But soon that wasn't enough, so they need to check it on their cell phones in real time, all the time. It's like junk food, people seem to get needier and needier with this stuff, but it doesn't satisfy them so they want more constant updates. Soon everyone will just be wearing a webcam 24/7.

But to try to answer your question, I read somewhere that the Twitter retention rate is below 30% after the first month. So someone may pick up a lot of followers after a news story or something, but lose 70% when those people never use Twitter again. Paris is in the news waaay more than that guy from Good Charlotte.

I couldn't give a shit what people do a daily basis, but Twitter drags in some handy traffic. That's why I tweet anyway. Plus, makes me look like I'm up with the Web 2.0 stuff.

People are very eager to waste their time... look at the folks that just surf around facebook and youtube all day without actually looking for something specific.

People love their entertainment, though.

I think it's a bad trend. It seems people are spending more time in online meaningless relationships rather than going out and having real ones. For every relationship, face to face, that is spawned off these sites how many real ones are never formed or lost?

It never ceases to amaze me when people come up to me at shows and profess to know me because we both post on GFY. Bosom buddies because we replied to each others posts. :1orglaugh

Maybe I should post on them and give the fantasy side of my life out to get traffic.

face to face relationships are over rated :2 cents:

Same people who follow people like Hilton and Richie are probably the same to read tmz or any gossip magazines.

What's your point?

I don't really see how you can compare a singer of a band (with multiple members) to a celebrity that regularly makes a fool of herself. That's why she is "famous." People like train wrecks.

How many people are following the CEO of Campbells?

Why does being on twitter or facebook or whatever else have to be replacing anything? I am sure there are people that obsess about just about any pass time. I know that for me, I don't follow all the many people and I keep it to people that I actually know or who I find honestly interesting. Both Twitter and Facebook are more like background noise during the day when I am already doing other things. With friends it is sort of like them just dropping a comment to me instead of picking up the phone for a one line conversation.

I follow her and believe it or not she posts interesting shit, lots of pics.

Making money from twitter is like intentionally shortchanging a retarded person.

And making money from porn is intentionally taking money from somebody with blood flow being diverted from the brain. So?