The Twitter Effect
Mcpaige drew this graph showing the inversely proportional relationship between the number of Twitter updates and the number of IRL dates. This makes sense, though, for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that if you spend more time Twittering, you are spending less time lining up dates. The second reason is a little less straightforward (and I’m proud I picked up on it). If you post more on Twitter, you are likely to reveal more about yourself. Perhaps reveal a little too much. (Sorry Jim! You just happened to be the best example I could think of)
April 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Yeah, it’s true. You dates will go down for sure if you soon become known as, “that person who twitters during a date.”
“She just ordered pasta!”
“@somebody, yeah she’s HOT!”
“Dessert is ON! coffee? Maybbbeeee.”
and so it goes.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Good thing I’m already married…..
However I need to watch the time spent twittering WHILE on a date w/ AcmeWife! Hmmm, maybe I could Graph this?!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Wait… Are you saying Twittering while on a date is a BAD thing?
Oops.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
how about for us married folk? is there just a flatline? or, is the number of dates renamed to ‘time your spouse spends with you in public’
April 7th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Date tweets (dweeting.com) is totally good!!
April 7th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
That little “revealing too much” problem may be solved by an anonymous Twitter clone. TMIttr, anyone? Off to throw something together!
April 8th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Hrmph.
On the flipside, Twitter can actually lead to MORE dates by helping you find someone with a twitter-personality that you click with… though I’m still working on that part.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
But what if you’ve had 0 dates before and still have 0 dates? ugh, I’m pathetic
April 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I cannot twitter while dancing so my wife is safe from being subjected to that, most of the time.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
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