My relationship with twitter has changed over the years. Once, I was on it constantly, participating in the culture (this is code for: arguing about what anyone/everyone was/was-not outraged/enthused over at that moment. Lather, rinse, repeat). Over the years I’ve spent time tuning tweetdeck to only show me things that are useful/pleasurable and pruning the weeds that make their way in. It turns out twitter is alright if you do this and ensure to think of it as read-only (oh, and as long as you’re not a woman or person of colour.) As such, I have curated columns set up in my deck and things like notifications, mentions, main timeline etc are either removed altogether or dumped at the very end so I never see them by accident.
Today, for some reason, I decided to look at my notifications and discovered that I had been followed by a company purporting to be the “official beef jerky of e-sports”.
I don’t know WHY e-sports needs an official jerky? but they have one. I broke my own “read-only” policy and tweeted a joke (strong word) about being followed by said jerky company and that the internet had been a mistake. The result? Now myself and a friend who replied to my joke have now been contacted and followed by a second jerky brand, this one offering a monthly jerky subscription box, and they’re offering 25% off my first month.
Anyway, I’m going to delete my twitter account and move to Tibet to live as a mountain hermit. The internet was and is a mistake.
Currently Reading: ORIGAMY, Rachel Armstrong (CA) (US)
Currently Playing: Gaetir The Mountainkeeper – “Norðanátt”
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