Twitter is a funny place. 70% of the users get it. 70% of the users are entirely comfortable in the slightly weird dynamics which exist, where conversations start and finish without warning, where you can ask a question and thanks to retweets someone you’ve never spoken to in your life will answer the question and where people regularly join and leave conversations on a whim.
The other 30% are, frankly, a pain in the arse. They attribute their own motivations to everyone elses interactions with them. Because they use Twitter entirely as a business networking tool, it breaks their tiny little minds when someone talks back at their broadcasting. When someone just tries to be helpful for no other reason than that they know the answer to the question being asked, it breaks their head even more. And if you’re a girl and they’re a boy?
Oh my god, you must be stalking them. Hitting on them. Chatting them up.
Most of us use Twitter as a collaborative tool. If you don’t want to do that, lock your steam and only keep the people on it you want to interact with. It will make it far more simple for the rest of us.
For the record, I’m not stalking anyone, I’m not hitting on anyone and I’m have friends, very dear friends of both genders who can deal with it just fine. Rant over.
