Tweeting Too Hard: A site for shaming the twitteringly self-important
For people like me who were raised to believe that being shamelessly self-absorbed is a bad thing, we finally have a site. For Twitter (many self-important types’ new platform of choice). Maybe.
It’s called Tweeting Too Hard. The concept is simple. You submit and vote for the most blatantly self-absorbed tweets that you see on Twitter. The most popular recent tweets get voted to the top. Like the million of other web sites that offer this sort of voting feature, you can also sort by “newly added,” “randoms,” and “today’s top.”
The site, created by this groups of four guys, has also done some fun details right. There’s the “I Am Very Important” badge that appears next to the number one story. There’s the ironic pun for the sharing feature — “Share this morsel of twisdom.” There’s the purposefully shameless plug at the top of the page, asking you to tweet about Tweeting Too Hard.
Hopefully, this site will encourage Twitter’s millions of users to be less annoying about the sorts of things they decide to share. Hopefully, I will never appear on this site.
Found via @danielpfletcher and @oontz_me.
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About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.
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