Why is this not The Fifth Sense Or "the Fourth Sense, starring Helen Keller" Fwiw, Andy Richter and Melissa Joan Hart have started following me, for some reason, so, you know, it varies.
Yeah...that happens too. Joan Hart follows 112k people, but Richter only follows 720. In general, celebrities won't follow people because following means they can get inundated with direct messages. Most won't for this reason, but when I've tried to chase down interviews for my site, I've received follows so we can pm info back and fourth. Find your audience and target with follows. 75% will follow back as long as you're not spammy.
I was going to say, we should start following people/groups that we think represent our group in a general way and start tweeting with them or retweeting their stuff. Any suggestions on this? Generally get a good cross section of different people on the boards likes. I'm thinking comedians or authors/media personalities we like. I really like Dr Drew's stuff and Adam Carolla. People like Alton Brown or Anthony Bordain.Throw out questions or comments to them, like the best venison recipe question asked in the hunting thread, at Alton Brown. Maybe get some of his followers attention etc. Also, if we see a cool article, particularly one that gets a good thread going here, retweet that out. I'll just get it out of the way and say we should leave Tucker or any of the old "big wigs" from the old board off this list.
I love that people are giving input here (looking at you you jones) on twitter strategy, and like KK said this needs to be a group effort. I don't want to just decide one thing and that be that, because I don't think that's right and certainly my personal opinion and tastes is by no means a reflection of the board as a whole. Any one y'all TiB should follow, throw it out here. Anyone you think TiB should try to engage on twitter, by all means let me know. If you'd like to use your own twitter and engage someone, just @ us both.
Follow @midnight, the Comedy Central show. They're very interactive with their audience by playing a lot of the hashtag games you see here. The funniest ones get airtime on the show.
Does Adult Swim still do that too? They might be a good one. If John Taffer has a twitter, that might be a good follow as well.
Charles Manson’s fiancee allegedly only wanted him for his corpse Something tells me this could be made into something funny on Twitter... #gravedigger
I've made my contributions by making the Enola Gay and Tank Man meme for both the Twitter account and Facebook account. If any of you feel like contributing, I will add you to the Facebook mods so you can post shit too. Neither of these are going to pick up legitimate steam with just one person behind them no matter how passionate we are about the content. I work 14 hours a day as it stands now and have a six year old and will tell you I'm not going to make it on my own without your help.
I work 10-12 hours a day and have a 8.5 month old. Same goes for the rest of what you said. This has to be a group effort. I'll happily distribute all the content y'all provide, but this will not make it if I'm the only one creating content.
Sure, I'll pull out... Who's in my mouth? That's the wrong hole. The safe word's duodenum. #WhstIsLoveIn4Words
Please call for help! #WhatIsLoveInFourWords Sorry honey, I tried #WhatIsLoveInFourWords I shot the cat #WhatIsLoveInFourWords
But your sister needs me right now! #valentinesdayexcuses Happy hour with the boys only comes around every so often #valentinesdayexcuses Well you're the one who wont wear the Scarlett Johansson mask. #valentinesdayexcuses Sorry babe, I cant find your Viagra #valentinesdayexcuses Nope, my vagina's tired from going to work all day then coming home to clean up after you. #valentinesdayexcuses I'm just not in the mood for you to "accidentally" slip it into my ass tonight. #valentinesdayexcuses
If you simply want to increase the quantity of your followers there are certain HUGE accounts that you can follow and all sorts of bullshit accounts hoping for a follow back will follow you. I wouldn't suggest that route. I followed one once and got about 75 new followers in a few hours, all bullshit accounts that I blocked. What actually caused my account to initially take off was falling in with the favstar members. It's a RT and favorite circle jerk, but some of them are legitimately funny. If you're funny they will RT, favorite and shout you out to all their followers. But they kind of play by their own set of rules too...the number one rule with them is they hate hashtags. I'd suggest following a few of them and watching how they operate for a while before jumping in. I'll see if I can find a few of the better accounts for you to follow. Unfollowers.com is a great tool so you can see the asshole that only followed to get a follow. I lose 50-75 a day, every day. Some unfollow you within seconds of you following them back. Other times I'll see someone has unfollowed me and they now have 3800 followers and are following 128. I never would've followed someone like that when their content is one and two word tweets. These are the folks with little dicks who think a large ratio makes them cool. Usually their last 7 tweets are follow train bullshit. Don't do follow trains. Before I turned off almost everyone's RT's there was no faster way to get me to unfollow or block your account. Over the weekend I'll dig up some accounts to follow that are like minded to follow.
Valentine's Day is just an excuse for white people to forget that it's Black History Month #valentinesdayexcuses