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Twitter Thoughts – Me vs. Wil Wheaton

I will never have as many followers on Twitter as Wil Wheaton (as of this posting, 327,316).  Now I know there are folks out there with more followers but Wheaton’s followers are legit.  He ain’t the world’s most famous guy but he’s made his mark on the Internet in a big way and so you actually have to seek him out.  That’s earned popularity.

I could be like the best Twitter user ever.  I could command wit and insight in 140 characters or less.  Collider could become the biggest movie website on the Internet and I will never even have a third of Wheaton’s follower.  The only way I can see myself becoming as popular as Wil Wheaton is if I kill Wil Wheaton.  And that’s not to say that his followers would be like, “Wheaton is dead!  All hail the new king!” What I’m saying is like you’ll see the news reports saying “Film journalist kills Star Trek: TNG-star/Stand By Me-star/Geek Overlord Wil Whedon” and they’ll ask, “Why’d you do it, Matt?”  And I’ll say, “Have you seen the first season of “Star Trek: The Next Generation?” and we’ll all have a good chuckle before remembering that I just murdered a guy.  So really, I can’t become as famous as Wheaton but I can become as infamous as that woman who murdered Selena but now with social networking and morbid curiosity.

You can follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/MattGoldberg but we’ll never best Wheaton.

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