TWITTER PEOPLE SPOKE, LOTS OF THEM

Twitter people responded to this post:

my dad died in a tragic accident so i got some money and now i live in a house w a nice stove and people are pissed about it

I was one of them when I posted:

My step dad passed and I got to pick a few things in the garage. I chose his red push broom. Best broom ever, and I named it after him. No one’s pissed, but they should be. It’s incredible.

The first one pulled over 177,000 twitter responses. The one I posted tapped into her followers.

Over 6000 twitter responses to my post. I usually get one. A week. A good week.

Who are these twitter people?

The first tweet came from “bad dana. A look behind the curtain.”

That’s her tag line. My twitter bio is:

I write a subscription blog with daily visits from over 20 countries, 25 states, and 100 U.S. cities. Frequent cleanup. Uplifting for some, maybe you.

Just a plain blogger deal, like a door to door encyclopedia salesman. Uplifting is good. Maybe more hype?

Other bios are different.

Harvard Env. Engineer & sustainability rep passionate about making science inclusive & exciting!

half stupid shit, half politics. basically a representation of my life

Punk pot smoking atheist lesbian your parents warned you about. BL

I like mom jeans women writers and being kind to people who are kind to people

Star salesman, beet farmer, bed-and-breakfast proprietor, aspiring freelance bodyguard. Add to that list owner of this building. Then burn the list.

I just want to be better today than I was yesterday

There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.

Professional audio engineer | Amateur goat trainer

Twitter People, Only Better

There they are, a profile of the bunch who responded to a post I piggybacked on another post.

A ‘like’ is one thing, writing why takes a different sort of person.

And here’s what they said:

Now that’s a solid broom if I do say so myself

Hope you have a great day man enjoy your broom

This is so sad—the really don’t make brooms like they used to and you get to have one that works because we don’t tax inheritance enough.

Post a pic of the broom. Don’t tease us like that

ok broomer.

I fished my grandma’s seasoned cast iron skillet out of the trash pile. It’s a beauty!

That’s so wonderfully wholesome. Sorry for your loss, though.

This is the best tweet I’ve ever seen

The Internet masses have agreed, we need to see this broom more than the sarcophagus juice needed drinking, and more than that dress was black or gold.

That’s a pretty fucking sick broom gotta be honest

And the best of the best with the most hits commenting on my tweet comment:

Ugh the broomgeoisie inheriting intergenerational brooms and then looking down on the rest of us for our shitty dollar store brooms

when my mom passed away when i was a kid, everything in our house was laid out in a warehouse to be auctioned off, and i had to sit and watch all of my things get sold to the highest bidder because my step mother didn’t want them in her house

A Cross Section Of Twitter Life

I’ve read twitter, browsed twitter, for a while now. My smart guys said I needed to be on twitter. I’ve been there since 2009.

I do my part and come away feeling okay. This is a usual month. From October 2020:

Tweet Impressions is how many times a post is seen, heard, or even read on twitter.

This is December 2020:

I’ve wondered who the heck twitter people are and what pushes them. Now I have a better idea.

And you do too.

That’s how it works around here with a new broom.

Mask. Hands. Distance.