Is there an echo in here?

Published May 5, 2010

What’s the sweetest sound in the world? Dale Carnegie said it’s the sound of your own name.* Calling someone by their name is the quickest way to grab and hold their attention. If you say it often enough, but not enough to become an annoying twit (Hi Marcia!), it also influences them subconsciously to like you.

We’re thinking @TamelaJaeger likes herself a lot. So much so, that when she wasn’t hearing her name mentioned enough by other people, she decided to take matters into her own hands.

Since she is “the founder of 100% photo real human skin texturing in 3D,” we’re not sure whether @TamelaJaeger is real or Memorex, but like a misfiring Stepford Wife, repeating herself is now completely out of control.

Okay, so she’s repeating and retweeting herself. It couldn’t get any sillier than that.

Oops. We spoke too soon.

Retweeting a #FF recommendation so the people following her will see someone else recommended her for Follow Friday, so they can…what? Follow her? Or maybe they’ll want to jump on the #FF bandwagon and #FF her, so she can retweet that? This has the potential to create an endless loop that could cause the internets to spin in on themselves and create a rift in the time-space continuum, which will bring reality as we know it to an end.

Or not.

Either way, would someone please whack the side of the twitter cabinet ?

Thanks.