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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
when I check their profiles, some of them have absolutely nothing posted, but follow several hundred other people. weird. kinda scary even
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Why is that scary? I myself might fall into that category (though I follow only a couple of dozen -- rather than several hundred -- people).
I don't think it's a requisite for everyone on Twitter to twit.* I have a Twitter account that I use to follow certain news updates, like CNN or BBC, tech (CNET, Engadget, etc.) or simply follow a few random people, like Seth MacFarlane (creator of
Family Guy) and few of my favourite sportswriters. (I don't follow 'celebrities', as I doubt they have anything to say that I would find either interesting or amusing.)
And I don't twit. At all. I just follow the people I follow, and don't twit anything in return. Partly, it's because I am somewhat introverted, and have never been prone to sharing stream-of-consciousness thoughts; and partly because... well, I just don't want to. Nothing wrong with that.
* Why is it 'tweet'? If the name is Twitter, doesn't that imply that it is a tool that you use to 'twit'?