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5 reasons why I mute people on Twitter

In Social Media on May 16, 2012 at 4:41 pm

I have been on Twitter for 3 years and from my experience I have realised that its anti-social to unfollow people who diligently follow you, even though they might be very stupid and often refer to you behind your back as a sociopath.

But thanks to the brand new Twitter app for IOS called Tweetbot, I can mute people for designated period of time.

Below is my TOP 5 reason to mute people!

1) Boy Friend Baiting: There are groups of girls (read unmarried) who want to skim the milk for the cream, they usually have followers in excess of 5000, and they constantly tweet about the great fun they are having, they also carry books in their bag titled ” How to seduce a bank account” or ” How to rinse a bank account dry”. Eligible guys like me need to mute these temptresses from time to time.

2) The Beautiful DP woman : She has the most beautiful photoshopped picture, which sexually excites you when you see her tweet on the TL. Since I am clued on to twitter 24×7 it would be risky for me to stay in a perpetual sexually excited state 24×7. So i mute them on and off!

3) The pimp my product person: Everyone is on twitter for a reason, but there are some people who pimp their articles like 48 times a day! These people are generally who misuse their social media brand value and abuse the noobs. I mute them for extended duration.

4) The Mass Media Junkie – Some tweeple finally know the safest thing to talk about is a trending topic, they latch on to it, like a insecure, aged actor does to a TV role. They tweet incessantly and with quotes and comments. I mute them for weeks, and unmute them only when Iam ready to come out from under my rock.

5) Sports: Unfortunately my parents never encouraged me to take up any kind os Sports, and I just don’t understand video games or physical activities like cycling and gymming. These people’s life revolve around eating and exercising and repeating the same on the loop at 156 bpm. I look down on them, as people who are trapped in body consciousness. I mute them, and unmute them only if I feel the need for inspiration to exercise.

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I wanna feel you Up #ifeelup

In Social Media on January 20, 2012 at 1:45 pm

Again I am wondering why I am writing a blog post on a #nontroversy. A few days or a fortnight back @viewspaper sent most of us spam emails (How did they get our emails id’s is anyone’s guess) that they want me to be a mentor and talk/tweet about current affairs with the hashtag #ifeelup for a Tweetathon. I was vivid about @viewspaper as I had never heard about them and how dare they spam me!

Today morning, it was revealed by some tweeters that #ifeelup is infact the new tag line for @pepsi ‘s 7UP . Now how did the twitterati fall for such a cheesy hashtag called #ifeelup (Incidently the info-graphic put up by BBDO proximity which is now taken offline claimed that the #ifeelup hashtag trended for 38 hours), and why did the light we look up to in the social media endorse and not reveal the true nature of this campaign?

Where do you wanna feel up? or do you wanna fill up your glass with the new 7UP?

So @pepsi knowing that how much tweeple like to go on an outrage played its card smartly via @viewspaper , but the chennai and the bangalore boys are smarter and are refusing to use the #ifeelup hashtag when expressing their outrage.

Now the question is why are we #outraged , don’t we love to go on a outrage, lets hashtag #ifeelup, no ?

Disclaimer : No one from viewspaper has sent me an email to write this blogpost. In recent times I am finding these controversies entertaining.

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