The guy who's following me online, reached out via email last week and asked me (no doubt derisively) how in the world I can have 1600+ tweets but only 31 followers on Twitter?
He actually inserted three (3) question marks at the end, and capitalized the word 'how' ... Apparently needing to know, indeed, HOW I could possibly have more than 1600 tweets??? - but only a proportionately tiny handful of people giving a shit.
I told him -- my online "fan" -- that I wasn't doing this to be "liked"; that I had an agenda, and at the end of the day, I am and have been achieving my goals. True, it seems I have more social networks online than actual "followers" ... and some of these networks are entirely useless.
Don't care.
Google my name now, the name, Jeff Glovsky. What you "stumbleupon" today is 1000% times cleaner, more accurate a reflection, more truthful and balanced, than even six months ago. Yes, I still suck in some quarters ... and in the fevered imaginings of the guy who bumped into me in New York a few weeks ago and hissed in my face, "you fucking scumbag" (This actually happened) ... in front of not only my family, but the Starbucks barrista I was trying to make eyes with!
Or a guy in Miami ... who never previously met me, but felt compelled when he did, after sussing me out from a photo somewhere, to make challenging, instigatory remarks to my face ... alternately and insultingly laughing in it with his girlfriend, as I picked up my dry cleaning one day with my wife.
Fortunately, such disgusting, and vaguely unhinged, public incidents are few and far between. In the former example, I hope and pray this guy remains unarmed ... Is it any wonder my "tweets" are geschützt?!
But 1600+ tweets ... Indeed, HOW and why?
Because I have photography and writing streaming on Twitter: I have "allowed" the "app" to post on my behalf ... so whenever I do something on WordPress or Tumblr, it's automatically "shared" with that guy who's following me.
But why so few followers?
Because, why so MANY? What is the point of having '500+', or random "likes", or like, @GayBatman trying to like me?? Or Hot Lonely Girls, beating down my door? Man, I've got my own stories.
And is this even real???:
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