Web Cred

Last year, for a few days in March and then again in October, I tweeted. As you can probably imagine, my web cred exploded.

This month, for reasons I really don’t recall (but most likely directly related to late night instant messaging with Scared), I decided to get back on the Twittersphere. By day two of this miraculous return I had tweeted and retweeted 28 times and probably favorited just as many.

On day four of my return I hit a gold mine when I posted (on Instagram) a Fashion Weak picture of a fan at a college football game. With the proper hashtag (something Scared and I learned is incredibly important, but more about that later), which, in this case, was the name of the university, my Instragram was regrammed and tweeted by them in a collage. Subsequently, it was liked by nearly a thousand people – primarily on Instagram, including the individual in the see-thru polyurethane jacket and paint suit, underneath which you could see a golf shirt, suspenders, shorts, and mid-calf boots. In my opinion this is totally #ootd quality.

The next day, when reading a book by a very well known writer – who I will name-drop, Carol Leifer, only because she recommends it in her book – I decided to follow her advice and say hello to her on Twitter. Within minutes she not only favorited my tweet, she also respond.

As  one can imagine, this brush with fame increased interest in my account and, as promised to Carol, nearly all six of my ‘active’ followers – who may or may not be readers of this blog – retweeted and favorited my exchange with her. As one follower told me, on the Facebook, “ I favorited the tweet so CL would know you were at least 15% successful/truthful/not crazy.” I call that Web Cred or, as one might say in the web world, #webcred. #respect.