My number is 4315. Imagine that. I have done something 4 thousand 3 hundred and 15 times. I can’t say I have done a lot of things this many times in my life. BUT, I’ve tweeted 4315 times. I feel a bit proud but just a teeny-weeny bit.
Every time I send a Tweet this number goes up by one. I mean EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Am I obsessed? Most likely. Does everybody need to know that? NO. It’s a sneaky little number. It stares at you like the man who stares at goats. It creeps up on you as well. Like when I use a third party app to send my immensely useful information out into the world. Then, a few days later, I login to Twitter and BOOM. There we are. 500 more Tweets and I missed the next 1000 mark. So there goes my sense of pride. It’s gone. Completely and utterly gone. Instead there is this feeling of disappointment because I wanted to pop open a bottle of champaign and cheer to myself “Congrats to having no life!”.
Why on earth do we need to know that number?! Facebook does not tell us how often we bloody like something. It used to but it doesn’t anymore. I kind of like Facebook more because of that. Numbers are evil. They show us that our bank account is empty. They show us what we can’t afford and they also show us that we gained 20 pounds. I can accept all that. But who the F cares how often I, or anyone else for that matter, tweets?
With all the evil numbers in our lives that tell us that we spend too much, eat too much, drink too much and so on and so forth.. do we really need another number telling us that we TWEET too much?? Doesn’t that sound a bit ridiculous? It’s not like we are going to stop tweeting because of that number – we do it anyway. We are in denial. So, go on Twitter, stop making us feel bad. Remove that number. Because no-body gives a D anyway.
PS: I’m kind of proud to have cursed in a child proof manner.
PPS: What do you think about the evil Tweet number?
PPPS: Discuss in the comment section. ;)
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