12.01 AM: Can’t sleep. I’m bored.
12.09 AM: #goodadvicein4words trending in Twitter.
12.11 AM: I tweet
And everything changed…
I’m on Twitter since 13th October 2013 and I was never crazy about it. I have had 35-40 odd followers and most of them were friends (I even forced some of them to follow me). The only time I tweeted was when I was bored and picked on someone for entertainment. But this day, my one tweet changed everything. The tweet was not just retweeted by the Hashtag game organiser but she also sent out a shout-out to her followers to welcome me in their community. At once my number of followers showed a steep rise, people were welcoming me with personal messages and I was quite overwhelmed.
Over a span of few days, my love for Twitter doubled just like my number of followers. I was eating, breathing, sleeping the Hashtag games on Twitter. I started keeping track of the trending hashtags, “Favorited” the top tweets in hope of increasing my profile visibility to get more followers, and quite often it worked. But my new found love for Twitter came with a cost. My sleeping pattern was affected, I started distancing myself from reality and delaying my actual work.
Tales of an Urban Nomad 