Thursday, September 08, 2022

[Good Links, Rant] How to Twitter

Don't tweet.  Unless you have something you particularly need to promote -- meaning you are selling something, including yourself -- don't tweet.  No good will come of it.

I have a Twitter account but I don't tweet.  If you ever see a tweet from me, I've probably been hacked.  I do have folks I follow on twitter -- if you dig deep enough, you can get some useful info and some entertainment out of it.  You just have to be very judicious about whom you follow and never read replies.  That last part is very important.  Never think of Twitter as a discussion board.  It is for dissemination not collaboration.  Every once in a while somebody will do an AMA.  But beyond that never engage or expect constructive engagement.


Here are a few accounts I have found that are worth following.


David Burge (@iowahawkblog) / Twitter -- Consistently the most sharp and funny guy on the internet.  Keen comments, old car identification, Iowa football, nostalgia, driving thru  liquor store windows.

CarDealershipGuy (@GuyDealership) / Twitter -- Independent car dealer.  Lots of good insight into the car dealership biz and the auto resale market (Carvana, etc.)

StripMallGuy (@realEstateTrent) / Twitter -- Some flip houses, this guy flips strip malls. Fascinating window into a rarely considered corner of suburban life.

BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) / Twitter --  Finds old washed out autochromes (early color photographs, early 1900s) and cleans them up in Photoshop -- not colorized, the color is the original.  End result is often photos taken more than a century ago that have the same vitality as something from your iPhone.  It was never so clear that the people of the past were just like us.

Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) / Twitter -- Prolific poster of fascinating science and nature videos.  

Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) / Twitter -- Savage nostalgia from the 70s, plus or minus a few years.  Mostly, but not entirely, sports.  Lots of bad language, but that was also true of the 70s.

Three Year Letterman (@3YearLetterman) / Twitter -- I have a twisted appreciation for a good troll and Three Year Letterman is the best, and it's not even close.

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) / Twitter --- I have a twisted appreciation for a good troll…er, OK Elon isn't really a troll, except occasionally.  I like Elon, he doesn't spew corporate jargon or take fashionable poses. He can be snide or sarcastic or sentimental, but he seems genuine with a touch of eccentricity. Basically, he's just like most of us, which is a good quality for the richest man alive to have.