Something really interesting is brewing in the Twitterverse. (Did I just say twitterverse?)
Out of the blue (no pun intended, you’ll see), Ze Frank declared that he was on the “Blue Team”. No explanation, he changed his picture to contain a blue team badge on the bottom, talked it up a bit, and that was it, @blueteam is born.
Now different colored teams have popped up.
It seems to me that Ze is totally messing with us with another one of his social experiments. But that’s ok, we like Ze, and he has permission to screw with our heads. It’s amusing anyway.
Gary Vaynerchuk of Winelibrary.tv jumped in both feet and created the @verygreenteam.
It’s all sort of silly, but what’s interesting is that Twitter has no control over this. They didn’t create a Teams or Groups feature. We’re just using what we’ve got to make it happen on this platform they’ve created. Add some color badges to our profile pictures and all of a sudden…teams!
That must be pretty a pretty cool feeling that something they built is taking on a life of its own. And probably a little scrary. So yeah, I think it’s earned the term, “twitterverse”.
So far, there’s no purpose for this, but Ze Frank seems to be up to something. Keep an eye on it.
In the meantime, I’m going to mess back in my own little way and join two teams, the @verygreenteam and the @blueteam. That gives us the @bluegreenteam, which isn’t really a team, it represents two teams. Or maybe it is a team. Who knows? There are no rules. If you want to join me in stressing the system , here’s a graphic for you to use.
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