Overheard on Twitter
The other day someone I follow on Twitter was waiting in the ER with his wife who was getting treatment for post surgery complications. If you’ve ever been treated at an ER, then you know there isn’t much privacy in many of those treatment areas. Curtains are the only walls between you and your fellow citizens who may be receiving treatments for Mesothelioma, gunshot wounds or scorpion stings. Anyhow, I thought it was funny when this person tweeted that he overheard a woman asking the doctor if the staples they were using to close her wound would rust. It was even funnier when he tweeted that she didn’t seem to believe the doctor when he said no.
Read MoreI’m All a Twitter
It’s been four years since I started blogging and now I’m finding Twitter is getting me more followers than blogging ever did. I’m not going to give up blogging, but this Twitter thing is a whole world of its own. Karl Rove and Mitt Romney are now following me on Twitter and I couldn’t be more excited. Sure, Mitt’s probably not going to invite me over to dinner, and Karl probably won’t direct message me regarding his next Fox News appearance, but I’ve got a certain kind of access that is more than just e-mail. The new social media technology is definitely making the world smaller and smaller. I’m on Twitter because I want people to follow me, and when they do I think it’s cool, unlike Megan McCain who thinks it’s creepy. I think she just doesn’t get Twitter.
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