twitter fail blog

If you’ve been following @tweet_fail on twitter, you know that once a week, we post a list of people we aren’t following. We started that in response to #followfriday, which began as a great idea and now just adds a lot of noise. People are recommending tweeps right and left, without rhyme or reason. So, as we said, we started #notfollowing. It hasn’t caught on yet, but we have hope.

Most of the time, our #notfollowing list includes celebrities, because, as you may have guessed, we are not impressed by the majority of them. Some of the tweeps we are not following include @Oprah, who we blocked on principle the day she joined twitter, and @aplusk, because he’s Askton Kutcher. We’re not following any of the cast members of Star Trek, The View, or any pseudo-celebrities who are famous because they displayed their skankiness on reality tv. We don’t follow anyone we wouldn’t want to meet.

Fortunately for us, our #notfollowing task has become much easier. @jasontryfon has started TweepleMagazine.com, an online magazine featuring “Celebrity Twitter News.” Now that he will keep us up-to-date on which celebrities are on twitter, we’ll be able to compile a nice long list.

@jasontryfon told us about the magazine a couple of weeks ago, and we ignored him, because, it’s Celebrity News. But, since it’s launching on Monday, we thought we’d get our shots in early, because that’s just the way we roll.

We’ve heard from some people who say they look for our #notfollowing list every week to find new people to follow. We find that very disturbing.

Send in the Fail Bird! Tell @jaysontryfon you saw him on twitter-fail

UPDATE July 15, 2009: People Magazine threatened to sue the owners of Tweeple Magazine, so they’re shutting it down. There’s a lot of money to be made by celebrities and because of celebrities, and they want to protect their market share by going after the little guy. We’d recommend everyone stop reading People Magazine, but we know you don’t listen to a thing we say.

UPDATE 2 September 8, 2009: The tweeple.com domain name was updated today, and is no longer owned by @jasontryfon so we are guessing that some highly overpaid lawyers must have gotten the courts to force him to hand it over. If you are waiting at the doctor’s office and they have People Magazine there, tell them you won’t read it because Time Warner is a bunch of jerks.