Twitter Adds Ability to Follow Yourself (Satire)

In response to Facebook adding the ability to like your own comments, Twitter has done the unthinkable: they’ve added the ability to follow yourself. This was done to attract more Facebook users into the vast Twitterverse by increasing the amount of useless things users can do to give the user some feeling of “interactivity”. This came as a shock to many Twitter users (or “Tweeps”), who’ve seen rapidly increasing fail whale sightings while surfing the world wide web.

Onlookers of the ongoing feud between Facebook and Twitter have speculated that soon enough, Facebook will implement the much clamored for idea to add yourself as a friend, opening up a virtual world of what “could be” in social media.

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Facebook adds the ability to “like” your own comments on your own statuses? What purpose does this serve, exactly? I think some people will argue that this advances something-or-other regarding social media, but I believe the opposite – it’s a blatant, further degeneration of Facebook.

Facebook is a sinking ship! All aboard the fail whale into the Twitterverse!

That’s another thing I hate – the term “Twitterverse”. Another term I hate even more? “Tweeps”. Stop using it. I don’t want to be your “Tweep”… I’m not even sure if I fully grasp what that means.

As for now, I’m weaning off Facebook – gonna keep ridin’ the fail whale.

Thanks to Austin Hutchison for the idea for this post – make sure to visit his blog @ http://blog.austinhutchison.com

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