I’ve just started a PR diploma, which is encouraging me to learn all about social media. I’m a little behind, but I’m doing my best to catch up fast.
So far it’s been a great experience – I’ve found friends that I haven’t spoken to since college, I’m writing this blog which provides me some much-needed respite from the never-ending chapters of PR text that I’m trawling through each evening, and I’ve discovered Twitter!
Twitter is great, honestly – I was like so many non-believers who thought that by signing up I would somehow get sucked into a parallel universe in which I would feel the need to “tweet” about the contents of my lunch and every bowel movement. While some of this is true (not the latter, I assure you) it’s an incredible way to socialise with people – like-minded people that you would never normally meet, who have information to share – there’s a sincerity to it . . or so I thought!
Yesterday I made friends with Bill Gates – kind of. I felt a surge of joy when I discovered he’d got a Twitter account and that I could follow him, I felt special . . . . for about a minute and a half – when I realised that I and every other computer literate person in the world was sharing the same “special” feeling.
My mate Bill is now the most popular geek on the planet – 250,000 Twitter followers in less than 24 hours – that’s impressive! I couldn’t help feeling a little put out, a little less special – and then to make matters worse, Bill tweets that he’s launching a new website – Gates Notes – and there it is, social media in a nutshell, Mr Gates had amassed himself a ready-made nation of prospective Gates Notes-subscribers in the simple action of opening a Twitter account . This concluded my initiation to social media – I don’t feel so special anymore, I do, however, feel like I’ve leant an important lesson.
On a more personal note – I feel like microwaved crap today. I have a cold, and I’m feeling utterly sorry for myself, perhaps if my new mate Bill reads my latest tweet he’ll reward my twittership by sending me a Lemsip gift basic – or a million pounds – I’m sure one if not both will do the trick!
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