Why do I like Twitter so much? Many, many reasons, one of them is RITA …
Real-time
Interaction with a
Targeted
Audience
I get to have short conversations in real-time with a bunch of people of my own choosing! I call them “my tweeple” 🙂 That’s pretty damn awesome – not even my beloved Facebook can offer me that. (Hmmm … I wonder how many advertisers, marketers, pr’s and brand managers are aware of Twitter’s unique ability in this regard?)
Anyway …
As you know, this weekend was pretty difficult for me. (If you don’t know why, check back a few posts, I’m not gonna re-hash everything.) But one of the things that helped me get through these last couple of days was Twitter, and the awesomeness of My Tweeple!
I love that I can follow what others are doing – I don’t always tweet back to them, but I’m usually always lurking hehe. I love that I can share my own goings-on with them in real-time and have either meaningful or completely arb tweetversations with people who add an enormous amount of value to my life. How do they do that? Just by being there mainly, showing their human-ness or by imparting some really useful and interesting information.
So what did I learn over the last few days?
Mike Stopforth kept me up to date with the cricket action yesterday and he also divulged that he has his most productive moments on the porcelain! Think on THAT the next time you read one of his posts waha 😀
He’s also a braai man, so I wonder if this would interest him:
SheBeeGee told Sir G and I about something called “Nevaton”, which is a homeopathic remedy for sleep and anxiety, and apparently it “works like a motherbitch!”
Speaking of Sir G, he tweeted that the movie I gave him, Into the Wild, is the best movie he’s ever seen – he’s watched it 3 times in 3 days …
And for those of you thinking about going to see Lord of the Dance, StevenMcD reckons it’s “beyond awesome!” and that if you’re looking for an amazing wedding photographer then his guy, Michael Tree is the shizz.
Walter Pike was thoughtful enough to retweet a vital piece of information to all of us, and that is: the German word for blowjob is “einen blasen”. Thanks Walter, you know that’s changed my life 🙂
Vincent Hofmann took possession of his new baby – a rocking little MG, met up with Saul Kropman for lunch and then proceeded to get rather sunburned as he took his new car out on the road for most of Saturday. Lucky bugger!! Oh yes, and apparently he “must have” one of these:
Matthew Buckland loves drinking gluhwein, and he’s also found a very posh place to stay here in Cape Town. He wasn’t too sure about it though, so he tweeted for some input from the Twittervillians.
My old mate from Electric Ocean days, Damien du Toit, got a mention on Sitepoint.com. Kudos dude!!! Stoked for you 🙂
Darren Smith sent out a FABULOUS tweet! I love this: “Life is where you are at. Always, Where ever. What ever. Shit happens. Courage beckons. Life is tough. Mundane even. Just do it. Live.“
Plus, if you missed the opening ceremony of the Olympics (I did, yes) then you go check out some photos here.
And then there’s Rafiq Phillips. Rafiq never sleeps. Rafiq does waaaaaay too much for us mere mortals to keep track of. But the last I heard, he was reading about the “Brazilian Boom” … ?
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One last thing!! Thanks to one of my tweeple (I *think* it was Christopher Mills), I got to have the BEST laugh I’ve had in AGES 😀
You HAVE to check this out!!
cool 😀
of course re: house warming…watch the press for details :-p
Oh WOW!!! Nice 🙂
I am greeeeeeeeeen!!
Er hem, hope you’ll be throwing a house-warming par-TAY?!
In the end it was…. Kronenzicht in Hout Bay. A joburg boy needs a view if he’s going to do Cape Town properly.
That’s awesome Matt! *WHEW*
Whereabouts will you be living?
House update: i got one at the 11th hour. i am no longer homeless. 🙂
Hello and welcome Mark 🙂
It is? I’m not sure I can actually watch it …. I mean, I know how it ends and all and I don’t think I can bring myself to see that! I’m such a pansy sometimes!
Into the Wild is definitely one of my favourite movies too! Didn’t tweet about it, but dedicated a whole blog post to it 🙂
http://www.markforrester.co.za/into-the-wild.htm
@Matt … aaah, perhaps a nice idea for one evo in the height of summer (right now, you’d freeze your butt off). Llandudno’s absolutely GORGEOUS … I would kill for a spot there! Yikes, you haven’t got much time left, hey?
…a sleeping bag, a tent and llandudno beach.
And the boyz have come to visit! Hey hey Matt and Mike 😀
Thanks Matt, this was a fun post to do hehe. Shoot man, sorry about the house – that was a cool crib! So what now???
“what goes on Twitter stays on Twitter” … LOL!!! 2 words Mike: “public timeline” wahaha!!
Did you see that pimped-up braai pc? Watcha think? As soon as I spotted that, you and @thescott popped into my head 🙂
Look here – what goes on Twitter stays on Twitter. My bathroom habits are for a targeted audience, after all 😛
yo! cool post — had me in stitches — that was good gluhwein i tell ya. looks like the house may not come through so still homeless for now 🙁
Thank you SwissTwist! I have to agree … all the support / info / jokes / resources from all our tweeple is indeed awesome.
What a brilliant post.. through Twitter, we sure can count ourselves lucky 🙂 I’ve found some wonderful real-time support from all you wonderful tweeple :-))
@B – It’s FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC!!!
I had tears rolling down my face while I watched that … I was laughing so damn hard, my animals thought I’d gone completely potty 😀
hahahahhahaha
THat clip had me in hysterics!! “My poor dog..” wahahahahahaha!
flippen classis man!
@vince – hmmm … perhaps you really DO need that hat hey? And some Aviators, just to complete the look 😀
And yes, being able to follow the tweets of people you “get to know” makes the whole information overload thing a little easier to handle – you know that tweeted links come from trusted sources and are worth clicking through to. I’d find it helluva hard to keep up to date otherwise!
Sadly the hat, an SPF of 1 squillion and the five lip balms which I bought from Cape Union Mart couldnt stop the bloodied eyed aftermath of driving about with a smug grin on my face.
Twitter is awesome; I actually spoke of its merits today to MTN’s innovation team; although no names were mentioned I did say that it allows me to keep up to date on all of the latest happenings in social media and internetrepenuershipness.
@Sir G – Isn’t it cool 🙂
@StevenMcD – thanks for the heads up, took the “site down” bit off. He’s very awesome BTW, I love his style. Good on you for getting him!
@SaulK – that would be EXCELLENT!!
@SheBee .. hehe … I’m a serial lurker 😀
BIG SISTA IS WATCHING U!
Jeez, Suetjie, you are like an online version of Heat magazine, except for Twitter geeks 🙂
We are an odd bunch indeed! We must all meet in Cape Town (becuase it’s a million times better than Joburg) and have a drink (or six due to all our pressure lately).
awesomeness 🙂
Michael’s is back up btw, ciao ciao
I dig that last pic 🙂