You have an amazing following on Twitter. 414,000 likes on those posts. It must feel amazing having all that support. (I really enjoyed this exercise. It highlighted the way social media can make an event of mundane moments.)
When will this ever stop?! You have to run out of ideas soon, right? Probably not. It amazes me how many you have come up with. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
Who knew they had something like that to put out fake stuff. I should have known though since there are all kinds of generators out there.
Jun 25, 2023·edited Jun 25, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman
AWESOME post, Terry - I laughed so much that I achieved an estimated 85% tea-spill (for which, THANKS. 🙄)
I didn't know whether to be impressed or horrified by all of those hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets - but then learned that you'd used a random tweet generator! I'd had no idea that such a thing even existed! 🤣
😂 Thanks, Rebecca. Sorry about the tea spill, but you should know by now not to drink tea while reading my posts. As for the number of tweets and likes, did you notice that the numbers keep going up to ludicrous levels? 😂
I can't believe that I'd had to wait for your admission of having used the generator before I realised that's what you'd done - the figures were so improbable that I should have known straight off the bat! I'm too trusting/gullible/daft for my own good!!! 🤣
Curious how my perception changed with this style experiment! I have read the original many times now, and have always thought it was a cute, funny slice-of-life thing you might write in a letter to a friend. But, to me, when presented as a sequence of tweets, it just sounds like someone needs to get a real life. And the sad little tweet "I am reading a book," that has 329k retweets and 209 likes! Sounds like a LOT of people need to get a real life. Why do tweeters always sound so terribly lonely and needy to me?. ( I wonder if my comments make ME sound lonely and needy....?) PS Check out Bill Adler's Terms of Service story today. I'll bet you could write your story as TOS!
Thanks Sharron. "Needs to get a real life": 😂 Yes, but I keep coming across tweets that are the equivalent of "I'm reading a book". Yu don't sound needy or lonely, why on earth would you think that? Your comments are always incisive, especially the ones that say you liked the article! Terms of Service: I hadn't thought of that, thanks. I don't know Bill Adler but will have a look
This was scarily on point!
It also has now become my favourite. So so good.
You have an amazing following on Twitter. 414,000 likes on those posts. It must feel amazing having all that support. (I really enjoyed this exercise. It highlighted the way social media can make an event of mundane moments.)
🤣 what, like reading a book you mean? chortle
When will this ever stop?! You have to run out of ideas soon, right? Probably not. It amazes me how many you have come up with. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
Who knew they had something like that to put out fake stuff. I should have known though since there are all kinds of generators out there.
Never! So far I have a list of about 120 styles, which I keep adding to. I don't think some of them are doable, but we shall see.
I didn't know about the fake generator either, but just did a search and up it popped!
OMG! I shall wait for my inbox to be filled.
😂
AWESOME post, Terry - I laughed so much that I achieved an estimated 85% tea-spill (for which, THANKS. 🙄)
I didn't know whether to be impressed or horrified by all of those hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets - but then learned that you'd used a random tweet generator! I'd had no idea that such a thing even existed! 🤣
Bravo!
😂 Thanks, Rebecca. Sorry about the tea spill, but you should know by now not to drink tea while reading my posts. As for the number of tweets and likes, did you notice that the numbers keep going up to ludicrous levels? 😂
I can't believe that I'd had to wait for your admission of having used the generator before I realised that's what you'd done - the figures were so improbable that I should have known straight off the bat! I'm too trusting/gullible/daft for my own good!!! 🤣
Too trusting by half!
🤣
Curious how my perception changed with this style experiment! I have read the original many times now, and have always thought it was a cute, funny slice-of-life thing you might write in a letter to a friend. But, to me, when presented as a sequence of tweets, it just sounds like someone needs to get a real life. And the sad little tweet "I am reading a book," that has 329k retweets and 209 likes! Sounds like a LOT of people need to get a real life. Why do tweeters always sound so terribly lonely and needy to me?. ( I wonder if my comments make ME sound lonely and needy....?) PS Check out Bill Adler's Terms of Service story today. I'll bet you could write your story as TOS!
Thanks Sharron. "Needs to get a real life": 😂 Yes, but I keep coming across tweets that are the equivalent of "I'm reading a book". Yu don't sound needy or lonely, why on earth would you think that? Your comments are always incisive, especially the ones that say you liked the article! Terms of Service: I hadn't thought of that, thanks. I don't know Bill Adler but will have a look
Here is Adler's latest: https://billadler.substack.com/p/terms-of-service
Thanks very much!