Jason Calacanis is following me

I started using Twitter downloaded every Twitterific, Twittertwatter app I could find and got a little bored with it all. That was 9 months ago and now I’m proud to say that my gestation period is over, my Twitter baby is newly born with a full head of hair (creepy) and a name, a name I’m frankly not too keen on, but at least it has a name.

‘Jason’

Or to be more specific Jason Calacanis, the ‘Greek-Irish American internet entrepreneur and blogger’ (according to Wikipedia).

I would have preferred ‘Om’, ‘Michael’ or even ‘Kevin’ but I’ll take Jason.

This message greeted me this morning:

Jason Calacanis (JasonCalacanis) is now following your updates on Twitter.

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I’m touched, Jason knows me, we’re virtual friend request buddies, unlike myself and Nick Denton who ignored my request for virtual friendship on Facebook. If you’re listening Nick, ‘eat my frangipani you demonic mogulogger’.

But then I started thinking, why on earth would Jason follow me? sure my user name ‘fatadam‘ (please please follow me) is kinda catchy, particularly as I’m not fat, only fat(ish). Is it because of the 12 people I’m following all except Weekly Wine, chowe, blognation and Republic Blog, the rest are true technorati like Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel?

I think Jason thinks I’m in with these guys so he figures he should be in with me and by ‘in’ I mean follow and laugh at my tech witticisms daily.

I have been followed because of who I’m following in some weird peer to peer virtual stalker like scenario.

Or Jason has an addiction a Twittiction, he follows 22,178 people which means I’m going to have to be really funny to even catch his all too wandering eye.

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