I’m sending this to artists/celebrities I follow that I’ve seen this happen to. If they get a chance to read this hopefully they’ll know that not everyone is an insane idiot.

Where is it written in the tweeting by-laws that random people that claim to be “fans” can tweet some of the foulest shit to artists and celebrities? The person on the receiving end of your tweet is a human being and not some type of “tweet-monkey” that exists to dance and entertain you.

“You don’t respond to all your followers.” “I’m your biggest fan, why don’t you reply to me?” A – THEY DON’T KNOW YOU. B – They have thousands, hundreds of thousands and in some cases, over a million followers. How can they really reply to everyone? C – They got shit to do. Remember that shit they did that made you want to follow them in the first place? They have to do more of that type of shit.

“You tweet too much.” “You re-tweet too much.” “You only tweet promotional shit.” “Your tweets aren’t as funny/cool as I thought they’d be.” Motherfucker, YOU started following THEM. They did NOT INVITE you! You could even check out what their twitter feed was like BEFORE following them. I’ve not followed many people because their twitter feed did not interest me. I have a brain that grants me the power to make that choice.

If I follow someone and then realize following them is no longer fun I can quietly un-follow that person. QUI-ET-LY. There is no need for me to un-follow them and have some sort of final tweet closure to tell them exactly where they went wrong in my eyes. Just like if I INVITE MYSELF over to someone’s house that I DON’T KNOW and I don’t care for their décor or the food they serve or the temperature inside their house, there is NO NEED to dump that all on this person on my way out the fucking door. What purpose does that serve? They didn’t know me and didn’t invite me to-fucking-begin-with. Are they then going to say “You know, that random person is right … it is cold in here.” Doubtful. Tweeting to Judd Apatow that he re-tweets too much and you’re going to un-follow him, really? If he’s crying over your twitter exit I’m sure he can wipe away those tears with that big bag in his safe marked “40-Year-Old Virgin money.”

The point to all this is, I just wish people would use some common fucking sense. The person on the other end of your tweet is a human being. I’m pretty certain that if you encountered them in person you would not have the balls to say any of that bullshit directly to them, so stop tweeting it to them from your parent’s basement.

-CToastD