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I too am a huge grandma who only got a twitter because people at my internship told me to get one

it was completely pointless for me at the time

I can't say how other people use it, but I usually use it to talk with celebs and other people whose phone numbers I don't have. I don't think I'm interesting enough for tweets lmao but it has been useful for asking people questions!

I just stalk some japanese artists. It's nearly impossible to have a following on twitter without being somewhat famous. For nobodies like me, tweeting simply feels as if I'm screaming into the void. Pointless.

>>196996
>tweeting simply feels as if I'm screaming into the void
That's how it usually feels, yeah.

I have a small following and we all just use to talk about daily stuff, share things, rant, whatever. Read timeline, reply to interesting things, stalk your friends' profiles, RT random shit.

It's basically a cleaner, simpler Facebook with a less retarded userbase where you can be more open because you don't need to put your real name and add your real friends. Also your mom is not there.

tbh I don't understand the point of normal, everyday people having a Twitter. At most they'll get 2-3 likes and maybe a retweet from some random friend from Uni. What the fuck is even the point?

>>196996
>tweeting simply feels as if I'm screaming into the void
Tell me about it. I notice a lot of "nobodies" rise out of it by getting crafty with tweets or weird. Google "weird twitter" to understand what I mean. I just don't want to have to carefully create sentences and I don't want to tweet mundane nothings either.

It really is a void if you don't have a following elsewhere. Most people who are big use it because it's easy to contact them and not overwhelm the "celeb" in question.

>>197045
I use it to communicate with friends and meet new people through them. Not every user is after getting excessive social media fame and thousands of likes/retweets.

OP here, thanks anons. So I guess, if you're a normal person, you use it within your circle of closer friends or to interact with famous people? Ok, now it's all more clear for me.
I have only 2 friends close enough to read my ramblings/not be weirded out by my retweets, aaaaand they don't use Twitter. Huh. Though I think I'll still use it, I rescued a kitten yesterday and maybe I'll tweet an uptade each day. It would be nice to come back to it after some time and see the progress, or link it to my friends when they ask how the kitty is. Instagram doesn't seem like the right place, even less Facebook.

>>197048
can I ask how do you meet new people through Twitter? You just DM them if they seem interesting for you?

i have an empty twitter so i could follow artists and post my own art people are leaving tumblr in a trickle.
i don't ever have anything interesting to say and since i don't think you can filter things on twitter like tumblr i'd have to see all 100 nonsense posts for every one piece of art and that's a bummer.
i'm also fully granny mode in that i have NO idea how any of that shit works and i can't even read timelines right most of the time.

it makes me feel dumb, old and frustrated because i was the prime demo when it came out, but the concept /execution never clicked with me.

damn kids and their myspace.

>>197051
Not the anon you're replying to but I follow people I wish to become friends with and then I reply to some of their tweets every now and then. Sometimes they follow me back right away, other times they don't. I only talk to people involved with the same fandoms as I, so it's easy to make conversation. Sending someone a DM out of the blue sounds a bit awkward to me and it might put some people on the spot/make them feel nervous.

I mainly see artists use Twitter as a way to post art/updates and talk to their followers, more so now Tumblr is becoming unpopular. And there are also people who just post regular stuff like how they are feeling, retweeting memes, pictures with friends etc, same with celebrities.

I feel like out of all the social media platforms that are popular rn it's the most 'social' (if you have a circle of friends who also use it or you are some kind of internet personality, otherwise you can't really build a following it's not that type of platform, it's kind of an accessory to someone with a tumblr/insta if that makes sense). At least from my perspective.

I think it can be an amazing platform for artists trying to build up a following and become known, it really needs to be utilized by them waaaay more lmao.

>>197088

sage for samefag but its good for meeting new people with similar interests as the point of the site and the layout really encourages you to interact with other users. People usally tweet expecting somekind of reaction so it dosent look weird if you reply as apposed to facebook where its more personal.

I usually use twitter as a way to scream my feelings and thoughts that are not interesting enough for other people into the void, and i like it as that, wouldn't like to have a big following on a personal account.
I use it as a public "private diary" of my most irrelevant shitposter-tier thoughts.

None of my friends use it, but if yours do, it's a good way to keep up with them in a more relaxed setting than FB or insta.

I also use it to stalk japanese artists, since i find it easier to navigate than Pixivi, rt nice art, follow companies i am interested in, or check up on youtubers i like and occasionally interacting with them.

I think that gaining followers as a personal account is basically impossible unless you change your whole personality to match whatever meme is trending at the moment and keep posting according to it.
I feel like to gain big amounts of twitter followers, you have to have an already established online profile or be incredibly good friends with someone who has it. Also what helps too is to make some kind of creations, be it fanart, edits, music, "relatable" quotes, translating texts from international fandoms (i.e korean, japanese, chinese to eng) or being incredibly funny.

Otherwise, i wouldn't stress too much about followers, if you are interesting enough for someone, they will eventually come. Interact with people you find interesting or tweets you have something to say to, and people will eventually find you.

You can also use every single hashtag imaginable and follow everyone so they follow you and then unfollow them if you are desperate for followers, but i think that that is quite stupid.

>>196996
Same
It's nicer in terms of looking for nice fan art, you can easily avoid all the ugly tumblr art and follow Japanese/decent artists that actually draw super cute stuff. I've been debating getting a twitter since it is kinda hard to gain a following, but I really like the site in comparison to tumblr. I guess I'm really gonna have to whore out my fan art , do hashtags work at all on twittter to get noticed?

Twitter used to be an ok place for artists & weebs to shitpost with other artists & weebs during the pre-tumblr/socjus era.

After all the tumblrinas for some reason started emigrating in mass to twitter it became a radioactive dump of tumblr's dimentions, full of sjw where even the relatively normal people get easily infected with their garbage mentality. You literally can't hang out around there anymore without having social justice/politics splashed at your face regardless you just follow let's say, old friends & acquaintances. Nowadays the best you can do around there is to follow japanese artists and meme accounts.

t. twitter grandma from the early 2010s