twitter – SMLP:

How things have changed #NEFollower

When I first joined twitter back in 2007 I did what most people do, follow my friend, follow some of his friends then sit back and try and work out what the hell this crazy thing called twitter is.

After a few weeks of getting my head round it and realising that celebrity’s were a waste of my time (Due to them living on a different planet) I started looking for people that lived local to me. There was no Geotagging of tweets, no search.twitter.com so it was old school method of searching for peoples Bio locations.

I searched “Newcastle”, “Gateshead”, “Sunderland”, “North East”, “Toon” and I remember struggling to find that many people that lived on my door step.

When I seen the #NEFollower tag today I was amazed as to how things have changed. An almost endless stream of people that are embarrassing twitter to help promote everything from charity’s to Allotments and all living in the north east.

Well done North East tweeters, you are all over this shit!

Socially Networked Relationship

I’m fairly sure that this isn’t what me and @mrsemdle are like…. but there is time when I see a little bit of it… 🙂

@SMLP you are my hero, Love Michaela Strachan

Time to sit down a write another blog post. I’ve had a bit of busy few days recently so sitting down to write a post presents me with one big fat problem. What to write about?

I was going to do a little bit about what’s going on with @Twitchhiker over the last week. Maybe highlight the press coverage that he’s been getting and the fact that he missed out on a interview on BBC ONE’s “The One Show” or the fact that my tweetdeck “Twitchhiker” search has been going crazy since the first tweet about his plans were sent out.

But then I thought I would give it a rest for now and pull together another post closer to the 1st March.
But my final decision on what to post about is something that ran through my mind while on the bus on the way into Newcastle.

Michaela Strachan.

Yes you may remember her from such shows as “The Really Wild Show”, “Wacaday” and for the older readers “The Hitman and Her” and it is my mission (well until I give up) to get Michaela Strachan to sign up to tweet me the words “@SMLP you are my hero”.

At 42 years young she is the girls off TV that you and your dad could happily watch while learning about animals. She was is still is the sexiest presenter on TV but do we really know what she’s all about and what she is doing? The girl deserves to have an a better online status and I think twitter is the way to do it. I want to see her presenting more mainstream prime time TV shows like “Big Cats” or even a total take over of Country File (Move over John Craven). She also lives in Cape Town, South Africa so her life has got to be more interesting than some of the celebrities out their, imagine some of the TwitPic’s she could be sending out. Lets tweet it out and tags it clearly Tweeter Tags #MICHAELASTRACHEN we want you on twitter.