Almost Nobody Uses Twitter And The Media Needs To Stop Inflating Its Importance

You’d think the world was ending, but it’s just normal social media evolution.

The author’s tweet spray painted on a sidewalk in New York.

My boss is back on his CoolSculpting® kick because he thinks it’s going to magically erase his whisky gut and make him sexy for the ladies. He’s completely computer illiterate and has no idea who Linda Evangelista is or the horror she went through when she tried this “non-invasive alternative to lipsuction.”

I could try to tell him stories from my online friends about the giant, useless, snake-oil money grab that is CoolSculpting®, but this is a man who makes me clean the office toilet for free. So, no.

This week I was sitting at my desk at work eating Triscuits and peanut butter (don’t you dare judge me) when I stumbled across an article by Will Leitch.

Will cites some fascinating and bizarre (to me, anyway) statistics, such as only 23% of Americans have a Twitter account, and less than half of them look at it every day.

I am not one of those people. I’m hopelessly addicted to Twitter, and if I do say so myself, I’m kind of a big deal there (Ed. Note: Bev is not a big…