{"id":454,"date":"2010-06-17T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com.s96953.gridserver.com\/site\/?p=454"},"modified":"2010-06-17T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T04:24:00","slug":"guess-whos-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/guess-whos-on-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who’s On Twitter!"},"content":{"rendered":"
No, not my mom. That would be disastrous.  My mom’s baby sister, Aunt SO is on Twitter, and that’s almost as disastrous as my mom being on Twitter.  If there’s one thing I am always grateful for, it is the sense of humor in both sides of my family. Even when people are not trying to be funny, they’re still funny.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Last week, my aunt called me and told me that she has been seeing some things I’ve been writing on Twitter with the ‘@’ sign. She wanted to know what I had done to her computer to make her able to “see all those things on Twitter.” I didn’t do anything to her computer, I told her.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I still don’t know how she got to it, but I suspect she was prompted by Yahoo! to join her Yahoo! buddy (me) on Twitter. She obliged and ended up on Twitter.  “I don’t know what I’m doing,”<\/i> she confessed – not that she needed to confess. It was quite obvious that she did not know what she was doing. “Why are you following me around on the internet?”<\/i> she asked me. I wasn’t following her. In fact, as it came to pass, she was the one following me – literally — which explained why and how she could “see all those things on Twitter.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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She was on the Twitter homepage, and I was trying – unsuccessfully – to tell her what Twitter is for. That was when the spotted the famous Twitter prompt for an update:<\/span><\/div>\n

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To this, my aunt asked  – in quite a defensive tone – “Who are they asking that question?  Why are they asking me what is happening?  What is their business with me?”<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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Before I could explain that Twitter really means no harm – I hope. Aunt SO went ahead and replied.<\/span><\/div>\n

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As most of you may already know, no matter how many times you tweet (i.e. update your twitter account), it will continue to ask, “What’s happening?”<\/span><\/div>\n

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But Aunt SO wouldn’t hear of it.  “You see!” She yelled.  “These people are still asking me what is happening. What do they want me to tell them?”<\/span><\/div>\n

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And that was how Aunt SO lived her brief life on Twitter. She is survived by her favorite niece, Vera Ezimora.  Aunt SO will not be missed on Twitter.<\/span><\/div>\n

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For those that aren’t already on Twitter, what are you waiting for???  When you do join, follow me<\/span><\/a><\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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P.S.<\/span><\/b> Thanks to you, Verastically Livin’ won the ‘Best Daily Read’<\/b> award from Nigerian Blog Awards!!! <\/span>J<\/span><\/b><\/span>

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P.P.S. Category B of Nigerian Blog Awards is now open for nomination!!  Go ye and nominate me<\/span><\/a> <\/b>in all<\/i> the categories.  Yes, precisely, I said all.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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