More Flatulence than Influence…
So according to Simply Zesty – Online PR and Social Media website I am the 17th Most Influential Irish Person on Twitter. Get in! Well you can just imagine the whoop whooping of delight when the news filtered through to Coddle Towers (Northern Office). It was reminiscent of the time The Cousin won The Nobel Prize for Inactivity, a prize previously won by The Count of Monte Cristo, Brian Keenan & Terry Waite (joint winners) and Nelson Mandela. Coming 17th was a real boon for me personally as I was having a bad week what with the massive pain in the hole of the Tall Ships and my generally irascible demeanor. But happy as I was to be named the 17th most influential Irish person on Twitter I couldn’t help but wonder why. Little Miss Manuel said I was thinking too much about it and insisted we go out and celebrate with cocktails and caviar. Obviously we sat in and had homemade chicken goujons and salad with a jug of diluted orange juice but the thought was nice.
But I still find the whole thing ponderous. My Tweets on Twitter are not exactly what you would call wise or sage like. I hawk no product save for my own blogs both old and ahem cough cough new. I offer no advice except for quality breakfast combinations such as tea, toast and the early works of The Cure. I call this my goth-lite breakfast. And I break no news or political scandals. No my tweets on twitter are far more prosaic than any of that. Believe me I am not hiding my tweety light under a bushel. I use twitter mainly for moaning, the aforementioned breakfast/music combinations, slagging off opposing football fans (mainly that special sort of laser blue shirted idiot – the lesser spotted Manchester cittee fan), blog whoring and on occasion reporting of celebrity spotting. But being Belfast that doesn’t happen very often.
Heres some examples of my tweeting, maybe there’s more to them than I think.
Moaning tweets:
Food & Music Combo Tweets:
Random Tweets: 
See, what I tell you? It’s all nonsense! How can any of that be described as influential? Believe me I am not picking selected “whacky” tweets to make myself look crazy or zany or any of that oul bollocks, this is what I do on Twitter everyday! But then again I never thought for one moment that this simple little tweet about a woman with a kangaroo (now believed to be a wallaby) would end up with me getting a mention in The Sunday Times, which was nice. Odd but nice. There was even a cartoon. Page 15 I believe.
With tweeting like that I really do feel bad for those who came behind me, eek. I am hoping, of course, that my hairy shoulders post gets me a regular spot in GQ magazine or something. Heh. But still as my good friend, the Other Manuel, put it being named the 17th most influential Irish person on Twitter really is the same as being named third-favourite child in a two-child family. Fail whale waiter for sure.
Fuck, you’re a cruel, callous bastard. Imagine how the 18th most influential Irish person on twitter must be feeling right now.
bbb: abwahahahaha…..worse again for the 1st if you ask me…..
I cannot seem to find anything exciting about twitter and now that I have over 800 followers it would take me all day just to say hello to them all. Fortunately though I got one of those feeds about wines and drinks going all day long on my tweets. But to be 17th in the whole country you rock Manuel!
You’re only jealous of our money, and it’s an ugly emotion on someone normally so handsome of the soul…
Hola Other Manuel!
I was the third-favourite child in a three-child family, and one of the others was dead! So you are not doing too badly, unless one of the tweeters above dies and you do not get promoted.
Besos
Manuel
p.s. what is tweet?
Congratulations Manuel! Are you going to use this great influence for good or evil?
I’m not impressed with the Adam Sandler hate. It seems all too fashionable now to jump on his throat with razor-edged booties. I remember him in Airheads. D’you know who else was in Airheads? Steve Buscemi! And he’s amazing. Don’t diss The Steve, Manuel. I don’t care how influential you are.
Morrissey, though? What a cunt.
“Obviously we sat in and had homemade chicken goujons and salad with a jug of diluted orange juice but the thought was nice.”
What, no blow jobs? If you’re that famous, you should be getting blow jobs.
And groupies.
Steve: no, no I don’t….not really…I sway, gently but I defo don’t rock
simon: jealous? ha!
Other Manuel: a tweet is a twat….a short one at that….what?
white rabbit: for the accumulation of sandwiches……so evil then…mwahahahaha
Sweary: you take that back……you take that back and you apologise…Listen I have been hating on the Sandler douche for a very long time….I’m no Johnny fly by night hater…..my hate is for reals and for life…..
Fat Sparrow: no, no I need to win an actual award for that sort of reward….
laughter is more influential than… well…. hmmm…. ok. i was going to try to say something of consequence here. got nothin’. sorry…
mr manuel waiter, stand up and take a bow. you earned it.
Daisy: me n you both! ha!
Ironbed: I like to think you did your bit too….ha! (again)
mr. manuel waiter, you are slow to catch on. haha
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