Anecdotal evidence

delgrosso:

So, who are the three Twitter people who aren’t currently following you, but who you wish were?

FWIW, mine are @warrenellis, @hodgman, and @lonelysandwich.

Your turn.

1. @sween, because he makes me laugh. Every. Single. Time. Also, because I was once featured right below him in the Chicago Tribune. And one should always be followed by one’s article-mates, not so? (So this goes for you too, @fireland.) It would go some way to easing the impostor syndrome I feel bubbling up every time I think of that article.

2. @zolora, because she says things like this:

I almost drove off the road because I was distracted by a billboard. That said “Book Sale.” - @zolora

and I think, “You have no idea how similar we are.” And by similar, I mean AWESOME. And silly. And nerdy. And smart. All at the same time.

3. @tony_d, because I’m a writer too. And an apostrophe vigilante. And a nerd. Plus it would only be fair, given the effort I had to put in to actually follow him. For months Twitter just wouldn’t let me. I was clicking the follow button at least three or four times a week, but to no avail. I was envious, because I could see the rest of you were having a jolly old time reading his tweets. And then one day, much to my surprise (for I’d grown cynical by then), the little grey button magically…just… worked. (So now I comfort myself by thinking that maybe he really really does want to follow me back, but Twitter just won’t let him.) (And then the impostor syndrome sets in.)