Roschelle Nelson

Twitter, Aplusk and What It All Really Means



Posted: Tuesday, September 08, 2009

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I was on Twitter for quite a while yesterday...just reading tweets and posting a couple. Most of mine always seem to get lost in the other gazillion that are being submitted at the exact same time. I was just about to sign off when I noticed a tweet from someone mentioning the Wefollow.com website.

This site is an enormous directory of every Twitter user in the world - categorized into descriptive search words. For example, type in the word blogger, actors, or tennis and thousands of Twitter users are listed. The list starts with the user in that particular category that has the most followers.

At this point you're able to click on the person or group you're interested in following. I guess all of this is okay. But what really captured my attention was the one Twitterer (is that a word?) with the most followers of all the Twitters in Tweetland.

That title belongs to none other than Aplusk.  For those of you unfamiliar with that user name, Aplusk is Ashton Kutcher's user name on Twitter.

This guy has 3,496,595 followers! He follows a mere 216. That was yesterday. God only knows how many more legions of followers he's gained during the holiday weekend.

The only thing I kept hearing ringing in my ear was WHY? Are we that fixated with Hollywood and it's celebrities. Other famous names had mass followings too - Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, Oprah,  and Ryan Seacrest, just to name a few.

Maybe this mass following of celebrities by everyday Joes like you and me is just a way to connect and communicate with someone you'd probably never have been able to communicate with before Twitter and other social networking avenues were available. But wait - it's only a one-sided form of communicating!

You're still not communicating with them. They're tweeting away to the masses and the masses can't tweet back!

Over 3 million people get tweets from Kutcher every time his fingers hit a keyboard. He receives his chosen 216. So, in reality it's just like it's always been.

We see and hear him - but he doesn't know we're even there.

What's the logic?


Roschelle Nelson is a Registered Nurse by profession and mother, freelance writer, mentor, friend and genuine lover of life by choice. Roschelle has achieved success with several business ventures. She enjoys writing, meeting new people and considers life a precious gift. View her blog Inconsequential Logic to see what she's chirping about these days! Her views on life, current news, work and family are never dull and often sprinkled with humor and wit. 
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» left by Dr Clarence Rucker, Jr
from MI 2 years 148 days ago.
Roschelle, very well written. There is no logic. No logic because there is none in them. When Christ is out of your life, it becomes like looking for a hero. You and I and others that believe do not filter our soul away. Why? We have a filling reality in us. I call them the Barnum & Bailey mentality, "There is a - born every second." I think you have it now.
Have a good day from Motown.
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