# of followers on Twitter is the new # of friends on Myspace
Let me share a little fun game with you that I play every morning . It is called guess how many shady people from Twitter will be in my email inbox today.
Every morning shortly after waking up I stare wearily at my laptop and check my email. Without fail every single day I have anywhere from 2-10 emails announcing proudly:
“Creepy User X is now following you on Twitter!”
Oh wow Twitter! My heart is fluttering with joy.
Why do you want to follow me? I don’t make that many interesting posts; at least you wouldn’t have the context to understand them since you don’t know me.
Do you think other people come to your Twitter page and go “OMG, this guy is SO awesome he is following 4,512 people!!!!”?
You know what people do? They see the 4,512 people that you are following and then they see right below that you have only 500 followers. You know what that says? That you have nothing that is interesting to most people and you just randomly add people. Of course, this is probably the norm for you as you also sent out friend requests to every hot girl you stumbled on searched for back in your Myspace days.
btw: (How you convinced 490 people to follow your boring updates is beyond me but congrats)
All I can think of every morning is how much this makes the Twitter user experience feel like Myspace. Remember when we all used Myspace and received daily friend requests from scary individuals that we had no idea whom they were? (If you still use Myspace well then you probably still experience this heart warming event daily).
I don’t even get a chance to make a morning “About to shave and brush my teeth” tweet before I am soured on the service.
And yes, I know I can make my updates private but in the past month this has gotten to be so annoying that I am contemplating stopping my usage of Twitter
