The definition of stalking is as follows from dictionary.com. “The act or course of stalking quarry, prey or the like”.
Now typically when a definition includes the word it is attempting to define in its definition I don’t like to use it but I made an exception in this case. Today my professor decided to give us a blog prompt that includes looking at a person on twitter that we are following and taking a look at who they follow to see how that reflects on who the original person we’re twittering (i hope I used that correctly) as a person. Confused? So was I until I made a very simple connection. This assignment, in its most basic form, is stalking. So Ive made a new twitter application: TwitStalk.
This is how it begins. I chose Eugine Eugine “Mirman to follow on Twitter. A short background on Eugine Mirman is that he plays a building manager in the show “Flight of the Concords” on HBO (Which by the way is FANTASTIC and I highly recommend you to see). Anyway, so I chose Eugine Mirman as my first TwitStalk victim.
To start I went to his home page and studied all the people he followed. Here are some of those people: Danny DeVito, SubPop Records, Comedy Exchange, Al Gore, Al Yankovic, Barrie Mirman, Ilya Mirman and so on. So what have I deduced from the 80 or so people that he follows? Well here’s an impression of who Eugene Mirman is thanks to the stalker techniques I picked up from TwitStalk.
Eugene Mirman is a guy who really loves his career so he follows a lot of stuff that correlates with that like the comedy exchange where he performs at a lot and SubPop Records that helps produces his comedy CD’s (to know this kind of information you must religiously follow a person’s tweets…this is quite easy for stalkers with TwitStalk). Also, Mirman is big on following people he finds to not only be entertaining but people he looks up to as well like Danny DeVito and Al Gore. Finally I was surprised to see how many people he was following were family members. Not only was he following them but he also was communicating with them and they seem really close. What I gathered through my stalking process was that Eugene Mirman is big on family, comedy and life. He loves what he does and you can tell that because he follows the things that make him the most happy in life. Comedians, friends and family.
So the next time you’re looking to learn all you can about a person you know nothing about or have never met and don’t want to be an actual creeper or actual stalker. Use TwitStalk. It gives you the same results as normal stalking except without the restraining orders, long nights, jail cells and dark clothing. A win win situation in my book.
Oh and for your enjoyment: This is Eugene Mirman. Enjoy!
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