I’m not usually the type to care about celeb gossip. I am, however, very much interested in Twitter and vaginas (not necessarily in that order); particularly when they fall into the same story. Last night they came together when Katy Perry asked of her 1.7 million followers on Twitter, ”Is it normal to have a recurrent rash with blisters on my vagina?” (Overshare much???)
MTV’s newsroom blog noted that it was no more unusual than her normal histrionics, but still, ewe. Some that one of her studio producers may have hijacked her Twitter account, but regardless, Perez Hilton tweeted, ”Let‘s get Katy Perry’s vagina to #1 y’all!” (Let’s not and say we did, huh?) Thus prompted, tweeps took the ball (or ‘gyner) and ran with it. Before too long KP’s vaj became the top-trending topic on Twitter, upstaged only briefly overly hyped iPad.
Updates to Tickle Your Funny Bone
Well, they don’t really make you laugh as much as make your eyes roll to the back of your head and stay there. You know the updates of which I speak:
Whether on Twitter or Facebook, updates such as “Having my morning coffee“, “Off to lunch“, “Spaghettios for dinner tonight“, “Listening to (insert dumb song here)” just don’t seem to have much of a point. Why are you clogging up my stream with your nonsense? (That’s what she said?) If you don’t have anything interesting to say, why say anything at all?
One Life to Blip
Once I find something new that I love, in true extremist fashion, I like to load up on it until I OD and it’s out of my system, or else succumb to the addiction (as in the case of Twitter). I recently learned of Blip.fm, thanks to my tweeples, and am in all my music collecting glory.
I’ve blogged before about my experiences with Pandora (which I didn’t much enjoy) and iTunes radio (which I did) but Blip.fm blows these both right out of the water. What a great way to find new music and share your fave hits! Today I found a remake of Manu Chao’s “King of the Bongo” mixed with Portishead beats – WHITE HOT! Two great artists for shizzle.
Even better, the app integrates beautifully with Twitter so that any song I blip automatically gets tweeted (my parents would have no f’ing clue what I just said – go two thou nine)!
Anywho, I’m makin’ this short – to check out my DJ skillz (that kill), visit: http://blip.fm/DJsabs.
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Last night I went to that monthly dinner club; it was supposed to have taken place last Thursday, but too many of the girls couldn’t make it. As I mentioned previously, everyone brings a dish and there is always a central theme around what to make, ala Iron Chef. The theme for this past dinner was to have been St. Patrick’s Day, which we obviously missed. Then someone suggested making something in honor of the vernal equinox; the first day of spring. We split it 50/50 and celebrated “Irish Spring.”
I still made the Irish Soda Bread, which went over famously! I normally add raisins to the recipe, but was informed that one of the ladies is allergic to dried fruits, so I had to withhold 
them. As it turns out, I later discovered that Irish Soda Bread with raisins is actually known as “dick-in-a-box” or “spotted dick”, much to my delight. Imagine my double disappointment at having to exclude raisins once I found that out!
In other news, it was confirmed that the Twitter account thought to be maintained by Christopher Walken, which has over 85,000 followers, is actually not the beloved star. I was saddened to hear this since I had 
checked out updates to this account regularly (I don’t believe in following celebrity tweeples) for a laugh and was never disappointed. After reading an article discussing the issue, I’ve been wondering if this new information will affect CWalken‘s followers. It’s also forced me to consider whether the true author may be part eggplant.
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Taste the (Interactive) Rainbow
I’m sure you know by this time, I’m talking about the new Skittles campaign. Since March 1st, if you visit http://skittles.com/ you’ll be taken to the results page for a Twitter search on “skittles,” in real time. Everything except a “small overlay navigation pane is the only Skittles-branded bit; everything else is Twitter.”
Not only are they using a Twitter search on “#skittles” as their homepage, but their videos are housed on YouTube, their photos are housed on Flickr , their friends are on Facebook and their about and description pages link to Wikipedia. Everyone in Tweetopia is naturally agog and wondering how long this will last and what effects it may have. Of course the unprecedented idea has forced some to question whether Skittles is giving up control of their branding and messaging. Your thoughts on this?
In other news, yesterday I tweeted about a woman in FL who called 911 three times when McDonald’s could not fulfill an order for McNuggets. I thought the whole thing was fantastic, but to her defense, this morning I heard that she had already paid for her food when they told her that they didn’t have said McNuggets; annoying.
When she asked for her money back, the McD’s management let her know that McDonald’s has a “no refund” policy so the woman called 911… and again… and again. She’s now being charged with misuse of 911. I think she should have gotten her money back, though I don’t know what she thought the cops would do about it. She needs to write to McD’s corporate; I have saved so much money by bitching, for trufe.
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Follow the Follower
At first I kind of had a problem admitting it. I think I’m past the that stage now and can honestly own that I’ve somehow developed a serious addiction to Twitter. I can’t stop reading tweets, articles pertaining to the medium and theories on how it will evolve.
Most people are trying to promote some kind of product or service. Some want to be considered thought leaders in the space or drive traffic to a blog or website. Regardless, the idea is to get more followers than you are following .
I’ve also read a lot about different strategies in order to get more users following you than you are following . One way is to request to follow others in order to have them request to follow you out of courtesy. Then after a while you stop following some of those people so that the number of users following you is still higher but the number you are following decreases.
Another article mentioned that one may view Twitter as a kind of cocktail party and behave accordingly. When arriving at a party, you might start talking to people and introduce yourself. The way to do this on Twitter is by sending a direct message to whomever you requested to follow in order to initiate conversation and networking.
Yesterday I received a request to be followed and reciprocated in turn. Then to no surprise, I received a direct message from the individual shortly after thanking me for the return follow. I happened to be in the middle of a number of things and was not available to return the direct message right away. By the time I attempted to reply to his direct message, he had already removed himself from following me.
The funniest part about the whole thing is that the idea of Twitter was to post what you are doing. I would have to say that about 97% of the updates submitted have nothing to do with what that user is doing.
If you’d like to read more, click here to check out my friend The Quixotic Jedi’s blog posting about Twitter for Beginners.
Where’s My Dinner?
There are things about that can be grabbed: dates, toast and yogurt to name a few.
I am just slacking because the Simpson’s is on in four minutes.
I suddenly seem to be trying to push my own cyber envelope of late.
That happens when I have too much time on my hands and start reading too many trade blogs.
Yesterday one suggested I start using Delicious and yet another suggested Twitter so I immediately subscribed to both.
I have to admit, when it comes to home theaters I’m not even in this millenia, but I refuse to lag behind when it concerns new communication trends.
I am still, after all, once and forever…a bonified cyber junkie.
Even though I’m on the computer all day long at work, I come home and can still spend hours doing absolutely nothing on the internet…like this for example.
The Simpsons beckon – more later.
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