Oops!” (Direct Messages work only when the recipient is following the sender.) Asked how he felt about the incident, Mr. Amidon said: “Shortly thereafter my manager got an official correspondence from the mayor’s office saying that the mayor had tried to Direct Message me, but since I’m not following him on Twitter, it wouldn’t work. Ryback a year earlier when he had performed in Minneapolis with the composer Nico Muhly.
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Amidon larkily used Twitter to offer a pair of free tickets to R. The day before the singer-songwriters Sam Amidon and Beth Orton performed at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis two Octobers ago, Mr. Not all lapses of Twitter politesse are calculated. Andrew Essex, the vice chairman of the advertising agency Droga5, said, “I’ve repeatedly used I.C.Y.M.I., which enables one to retweet a self-congratulatory item ad infinitum, with Twitter-sanctioned diplomatic immunity.” Some journalists who are on Twitter will tweet a negative review or article at the subject of that negative review or article, hoping that the subject is either so porous or so absent-minded that he will retweet this bad publicity about himself to his followers. Some try to curl up in the shade of the In Case You Missed It tree. Some Twitter users, on seeing that something they’ve tweeted minutes ago is gaining no traction, will wantonly fire off a spray of retweets or Favorites (similar to the Like option on Facebook) in a desperate attempt to prompt reciprocity.
That’s not very interesting to me.”īut a random appeal to Twitter royalty is only one of several gambits by which users of the site blur the lines between good and bad manners. “I look at their profiles and think, ‘Who is this?’ Sometimes they’re just randomly to a bunch of people. “I have no idea who some of these people are,” Ms. Generally, the tweeter, ever eager to increase his number of followers, is hoping that the tweeted-at individual will retweet his missive, especially if that individual has the high-profile account of someone like Ms. Li said that the Interactions page on her Twitter account often contains tweets that have been sent When someone tweets “at” another person like this, the tweet goes out to all of the sender’s followers, but, if the tweeted-at person does not follow the sender, the tweet shows up only on the tweeted-at person’s not-for-public-view Interactions page. “People are gaming it a little bit - they’re definitely gaming it,” said Charlene Li, an author of “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies” and the founder of the business consulting firm the Altimeter Group. The hills resound with the need to be heard. Wolfson’s auto-largesse, one reader commented, “It can be oddly soul soothing to click the ‘report as spam’ button for folks like this.” Bloomberg and the former chief press officer for Hillary Rodham Clinton, has been promoting his own personal tweets on Twitter - i.e., paying the social media site to have the tweets appear more prominently in his followers’ feeds. Meanwhile, Howard Wolfson, a deputy mayor under Michael R. 25, the singer Rod Stewart asked his more-than-155,000 followers, “Anyone else have a child in each of the last 5 decades?” He then went on to list “60s Sarah/70s Kim/80s Sean, Ruby/90s Renee, Liam/00s Alastair, Aiden” - an act that, in the animal world, would be achieved by puffing up one’s chest or by raising the feathers on one’s head in a scarifying “crest erection.” Two recent events on Twitter have breathed new life into the question: At what point does jaunty confidence metastasize into abject bragging? O, the cawing and the self-directed cooing.
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