whatever136 Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 Alright, so anyone over the age of 25-30 on here might think this is completely odd (and it probably is Lol), but hear me out. I'm a senior at my university and I also happen to be a beat writer covering our football team (that's nationally ranked). So, I have a lot of followers on Twitter. Around 800 of them to give you an idea. Anyways, there's one follower who's caught my attention lately. She's been favoriting some of my tweets, which was what made me notice her. She's actually pretty cute and is a student here as well. I followed her back after she favorited a few of my tweets and then I sent a flirty but innocent tweet at her, and she did reply. Well, I've been thinking I'd like to actually talk to her, but I have no clue how. Twitter is the most informal social media platform of all, at least when it comes to talking to people one-on-one. Would it be weird if I tried to talk to her? If I did try, how should I go about it? Message her? I just don't want to come across as a creep, if you know what I mean. Which is why I'm leaning towards just letting it go...but I wanted to get some other opinions first.
GirlontheLam Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 Engage her a bit more via @replies, but on campus activities/potential common interests. If she seems receptive, DM her.
SeriouslyJK Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 I agree with GirlontheLam, continue to reply to tweets and discover common interests and then DM her with a casual invitation to something you would both like. I've met a guy a twitter, he was a friend of a friend who though that I was funny. One day I tweeted about being hungry and he @ replied a goofy tweet about taking me to Chipotle (which I tweet my love for constantly) and I met him for lunch that day
utterer of lies Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 Invite her for a date. Don't 'get to know her better on twitter' etc. That's bull****. 1
GirlontheLam Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 Invite her for a date. Don't 'get to know her better on twitter' etc. That's bull****. I've got a thousand twitter followers. If one of them suddenly asked me out without a few tweet conversations to help me figure out who they were, I'd decline. I don't even look at the new follower notifications, or peep the profiles of my @replies. Or look at people who have favorited my tweets. A few friendly tweets as a lead up, increases the probability of a yes. Otherwise I don't know you from Adam.
SeriouslyJK Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 How romantic! And during lunch did you sit and tweet to each other rather than actually communicate like humans used to do? OP, don't become like this. I can tell you what we did do, treat each other with respect since we didn't know each other. You should try the same. To defend what I said just knowing someone on twitter is knowing an avatar and small pieces of her life 160 characters at a time. I wouldn't be receptive to someone asking me out only knowing these things about me without much interaction. But that's just me, I'm 22 for the record.
GirlontheLam Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 I can tell you what we did do, treat each other with respect since we didn't know each other. You should try the same. To defend what I said just knowing someone on twitter is knowing an avatar and small pieces of her life 160 characters at a time. I wouldn't be receptive to someone asking me out only knowing these things about me without much interaction. But that's just me, I'm 22 for the record. I am 34. I have optimistically met maybe 10% of my followers in real life ever. Of my 1000 followers, about 20-30 are people I actually know. So yeah, I'm going to need more than a DM to warm up to the idea of meeting you in person. It is no different than online dating. You don't just read the profile and say, hey let's meet on Tuesday. You warm up with a few messages, not too many. And then agree to meet.
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