The squee is strong with this one
Holy shit, guys. This is small potatoes to lots of people (LOTS of people), but this is the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me on the internet, and I need to tell you about it. Saturday afternoon, about 3pm, I tweeted this.
We bought a copy of The Bloggess’s second book, Furiously Happy (which was really good, by the way), for Tania for Christmas, and we found that $5 bill with the note attached inside. It’s really sweet (and a great idea), and it’s the kind of thing you tweet, you know? I included The Bloggess in the tweet because we found it in her book, and I thought she’d appreciate it. Didn’t think anything else of it.
Then John and I went out for an early dinner with a friend of his from high school. I didn’t look at my phone until we got back to the apartment, around 8pm. That tweet was re-tweeted and replied to by The Bloggess, and it blew up (in a good way).
My phone buzzed pretty constantly for about 24 hours, as people saw, liked, and retweeted that tweet. It was SO weird. I texted Jess in the middle of it: “What in the hell is happening to me on Twitter?” and she said, succinctly, “The Bloggess is happening to you.”
Then I tweeted this, which is still pretty much true:
I got a bunch of nice replies and retweets to the original tweet, and then I heard from the woman who was responsible for it, which was really cool. A few more people are following me, I’m following a few more people, the lady whose idea this was gets more exposure – everyone wins.
THEN, the next day (Sunday), I checked The Bloggess’s website (as I do regularly) and check this out!
She put me in her weekly wrap-up! That’s a link directly to my tweet! So, you know, that’s cool.
Don’t worry – I won’t let it go to my head.