…fuck twitter memes… that’s it. That’s the ultimate twitter meme. Enjoy twitter, stop thinking of it as some sort of tool that you can control. You can’t fake it. I really have to rant a bit about this whole “How do you succeed at twitter” party group. How do you succeed at twitter? You succeed in the real world or outside of twitter! That’s how you will get it working for you!
You should twitter for the sake of twitter, there is no right or wrong just useful, unique and memorable or boring and forgettable.
It does not matter how many people you follow, it does not matter how many people follow you. New twitter clients help you to add plenty of people and pretty much ignore them afterwards. The noise twitter creates is obvious, and adding people beyond good and evil is just bad. There are people out there with thousands of mutual friends, they are not even interacting with a quarter of those people on a regular basis. Twitter recently reduced the amount of people you can befriend, and that is a really good thing.

Time to get real

Why on earth would you need 12.000 mutual friends? Easy answer, there is no reason for it. You don’t need a group of 12.000 mutual friends, you will neither keep up with them nor know them all! Do you want to tell us that you read all those messages or actually care about them? Do you think those people care about you? OK you made us laugh there if you meant that seriously.
Let’s assume that you spend 1 minute on a conversation with all of your mutual friends, one minute is not a lot time, it’s pretty reasonable. That would be 12.000 minutes if you treat them all equal… 1 hour has 60 Minutes, 1 day has 1440 Minutes…. 12.000 minutes are roughly 8.5 days. And you seriously would spend 8.5 days to communicate with each of your friends for just ONE single minute? But they are all your friends… yeah right…it’s really time to get real.

The stalker effect

Twitter has some weird stalker effect, people love to follow people who they are interested in. That’s the reason why celebrities have thousands of followers! Do you see them following back everyone? NOPE! You will not benefit if you add more and more people, they will simply ignore you and your bullshit marketing efforts. Add who you like, who seriously interests you and start to interact with them. Start to actually be social and use this tool!
This whole collecting habit is all about marketing yourself Think of a pissing contest or some sick collectors anankastia(yes I did look that word up and there is probably some therapist to fix this addiction).
You will not have more friends if you befriend others. This behavior is like a miserable guy who walks around, meets people and starts to talk to them in a “I have no friends I need a friend” tone. Without knowing them, clinging, afraid to let people go, wanting to please everyone. It’s neither powerful nor useful. Do some character building exercises and come back when you have developed some self confidence. Or stick to this ego brushing twitter behavior. To make thing clear, those needy people might have many people following them, but they have very little influence compared to the real big players.

What to do?

As I mentioned in the first sentence, fuck twitter memes. Use it and have fun. If you really want to leverage yourself start to work on something outside of twitter and watch your followers grow. Twitter is great, but you should not force yourself into another rat race on who has the most followers or friends. It does not matter.