Posts Tagged ‘microblogging’

F Dash Dash Dash Follower Numbers

Yeah. They’re talking about Twitter again.


From The Twitter Fantasy | Collaboration 2.0
| ZDNet.com

I smell Beanie Babies, Housing Bubbles and Dutch Tulip Manias – there’s a frenzy around followers that will boom and bust.  Few people know why these various followers are of value apart from to try and sell to them, often in a way that would be very at home on the home shopping channel, ideas, services and stuff.

 

It’s already bust among the savvy. The problem is the savvy folks are not the majority of the general population.

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Twitcott or Not?

Shakes Fist at Twitter

I’m in Austin, and with the house empty today, I was just about to put my chicken scratch into readable format for a VIP client project.

I always like to scan the news (read: my blogging neighbors) before I settle down, to see if there’s anything that merits a comment, or your attention. And today I came across a post by my pal Paul Chaney, who is organizing a formal boycott of Twitter on the 4th of July. Kind of a declare your independence thing, very jazzy.

You can read more about what he’s calling the twitcott here, but be sure and read his more recent post about his rationale for boycotting Twitter – he’s saying hands off for a day, not for life.

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