fragileheart's journal

I like to explain myself, because I’m an understanding person provided I’m given something to understand. So with the motto, “Do unto others as you would have done unto to” as my base, I like to explain myself to whoever will listen¹ in the hopes that others would do unto me². To celebrate my 5,000th tweet I thought I would give you all an explanation for why I’m following who I’m following.

I can’t promise that this post is going to give you insight into who you should follow on twitter, but I can promise you that you will have a better understanding for the mind behind this fragile heart. And maybe, as a bonus, you can figure out who you should be following on twitter from that.

fragileheart follows 144 people

My dailies
These are people I talk to everyday when I get on twitter, my support line if you will. If any one of them were not on twitter on a given day they will be sorely missed³.

Periapex	lepoque	Celtophilia	radix33
Aerten	soupnumber5	lyndiWP	WebBetty
kenarmstrong1	wisdomhypnosis	micblonde	OhioRealtor
rymus	haleyhughes	leahblonde	tiddlytwinks
ericablonde	lisa365	Canucklehead_ca	laurenblonde
mspennylane	StanHayes	thatgrrl	JoshuaAmos

Bloggers
I’ve crossed paths with a lot of bloggers in my 10 years of blogging, some of them I’ve met through other social networks such as entrecard, CMF Ads, or something else. These are listed in somewhat of an order, those closer to the top I would consider putting in ‘My Dailies’ if only they’d tweet more often⁴! But don’t put too much stock into the order, its more like… the first half of the people below and then the other half ya know what I mean?

7milesdown	kateblonde	fruityoaty	Effigy
atrais	CyberCelt	PlotDog	benbarden
MrMikeLawson	moniquerenae	TurnipofPower	BadEvan
eyespi20	orangeinks	AsceticMonk	Acadia
Theresa111	davidpatriquin	melissaonline	evilwoobie
GorillaSushi	mandygilly	HeatherinBC	celebratetheday
lauratoogood	thefitnessdiva	jasonboom	jesswrites
amborg	Saphrym	Bobzilla	oims
sheilasultani	waterstonephoto	nukeit	nullnotvoid
TripTheLady	patking	BioTecK	junk_foodaholic
mswjj	DIY_Electricity	ahynes1	bullshitawards
baldeagle	JunkDrawer	chilly_	Jennyjinx
michaelaulia	joetan	AlanGayandStr	henchmanmike
cromely	mad1421	coach_gold	deimosta
Ayprel	magia3e	AlexGiancoulas	alluricious
joanjoyce	archondigital	rebelliousgirl	wongskblog
LainaBoBaina	TinaKubala	karencheng	JillianLVRO1S
ckwoo	outofit	chelx	Joeprah

Celebrities
I wasn’t following any celebrities until a few days ago. And now I’m following 9! Ok you caught me… I’ve been following JoeQuesada for almost a month now. But come on, he’s the editor-in-cheif of Marvel Comics… how could *not* be following him? And then there’s darthvader… what can I say, the dark side is attractive. He doesn’t actually tweet that much though. TylerDurden on the other hand… I can’t seem to shut up.

jason_mraz	badmovieclub	OHHDLInfo	TVWithoutPity
Glinner	TyIerDurden	darthvader	johncmayer
JoeQuesada

Retail, or things I love
Do i really need to explain? Ok, fine. MECMountain is for Mountain Equipment Co-0p which is my favourite outdoor equipment/apparel store in the whole wide world. Reese designs gorgeous jewelry; H&M is one of my favourite trendy stores; Starbucks is my favourite coffee and HandbagHeaven I actually joined to try to win a contest but then I found out that there is a real person behind the account and she’s sweet!

MECMountain	designsbyreese	handm	Starbucks
handbagheaven

Tools or social networks
CMFAds is a great advertising network started by some great friends of mine. You should really check them out, it’ll be worth your while.
20 something networks are nice especially since I won’t be 20-something for much longer
Commentluv is a great wordpress plug-in and Andy Bailey, the genius behind it, is a sweetheart.
Quotweet tweets inspiring quotes daily
Paperwhite is the twitter account for I Love You More Than Blank which is just an adorable site.
The last 5 are all things I use to help me with twitter: Spam is so you can report spammers who try to follow you on twitter, Qwitter emails you when someone stops following you, Mr. Tweet gives you recommendations for who to follow, tgadget is for the twittergadget I use while at work⁵, and of course twitter for updates!

cmfads	20SomethingU	20sb	CommentLuv
quotweet	paperwhite_nyc	spam	useqwitter
MrTweet	tgadget	twitter

Recommended to me
I don’t always follow someone just because they were recommeded to me, or I might start following and then unfollow if they’re not interesting. These are the people who made the cut!

thebruce0	hallgrimur	wildbill_husker	canine
happyguy	Mark347	RegNice	davefleet
jaqbaldwin	sarvasoap	nimdiet	followandrew
Spartz	DotComExpert	dadthing	davidvanvickle
TGAPGeorge	shawnpbutler	hypocrisy	SplashMan

Real life friends
I think that’s pretty self explanatory. Unfortunately, they dont tweet that much… but one can hope.

ohgracious

jasonjang

maeyo

My regular readers may have noticed that I didn’t post a Flickr Friday post today, there are a few reasons for this⁶:

1. I had to make sure this post came out as my 5,000th tweet via Twitterfeed
2. Its Friday the 13th and I wanted to do something different to ward off any evils that may be lurking around⁷.
3. There wasn’t a suitable photo for this week!

If I’m not already following you and you’d like me to follow you on twitter, leave your profile link in the comments! I can’t promise I’ll follow you for sure, but a woman has a right to be choosey right?

Who do you follow on twitter?

Footnotes:

1. or read, as the case may be[↩]
2. and explain themselves to me[↩]
3. Sadly, some of them aren’t on twitter everyday but they’re still in here because…[↩]
4. hint, hint[↩]
5. off of my igoogle homepage[↩]
6. here I go explaining my self again[↩]
7. yes, I’m superstitious[↩]