So the other day, I noticed I was retweeted on my Twitter account by TheRealDJHeavyE telling me to “recycle” my tweet. Being kind of offended seeing as I keep my Twitter pretty much awesome 24/7 (okay, not really), I couldn’t figure out what the crap it was. After doing a little research, I found out about RE:CYCLED Tweets, the brainchild of McKinney, a marketing firm based in North Carolina.
What they do is seek out your crappy tweets, and “recycle” them. By doing this, they eliminate your non-creative, non-entertaining, and non-readable tweets, and make them more bearable. While this was a complete blow to my hysterical ego, I can’t help but be grateful this exists. How sick are you of the “Oh man, I wish it was Friday” or “I just had a muffin for breakfast!” tweets. No one cares, and now you can stick it to them and recycle it. Best part of giving your friends lame tweet a kick in the nuts? Every time you do it, McKinney will donate a penny to getTrashed.org, a Global Inheritance recycling-based initiative.
Ok so say you find a lame tweet (please, not one of mine) now what?
Here’s what you do:
@reply to someone who posted a lame tweet (like @Emdonahue I wish I had a cupcake)
Copy and paste their lame tweet, and add #recyclethis (@Emdonahue I wish I had a cupcake #recyclethis)
Click reply
Within minutes, the recycler and the culprit will receive a beautiful new tweet recycled from the characters of that lame tweet and getTRASHED will be a penny richer.
Ta Da!! Make sure you keep doing it and pass it on because the most people keep posting crappiness, the more pennies will go towards recycling!
It’s a cute idea, but it would be better if they actually took something from the original tweet (theme/content) to make the new one.