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September 3rd, 2010
It never fails to amaze me how so many people using all these automated twitter apps to find and follow just about anyone, will, in fact, follow just about anything.
As a bit of an experiment following a discussion about ‘how easy it is to get followers “WITHOUT” using anything automated’ I set-up a Twitter username with no picture, no bio, no weblink, nothing. Oh, and no tweets. I had one ‘regional’ keyword in the username, that’s it.
I was one of the ‘unknown’ twitter users:
But sure enough, within a few days I had followers. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 25th, 2010
After the usual 10 – 15 minutes of clearing junk from my mail boxes and spam comments from my blogs, I turned to Twitter and sure enough, more junk. More spammy new followers and – to waste even more of my time – crapola in my inbox there too from some ____ who can’t find anything better to do than send out their own spammy self-promotional crap.
Before I get down and dirty with the post – let me just say I could have titled this post a number of different ways like “what not to do with Twitter” or “how to be a complete and utter moron on Twitter“… But, I’ll stick with
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People On Twitter
We’ve all been there. We’ve all been Twitter rookies. Heck I still consider myself a bit of a rookie with the little blue bird but I have certain rules of engagement that I learned along the way so far. Read the rest of this entry »
April 15th, 2010
Building your foundations. Sowing your seeds. Planting your roots. If you don’t do the ground work, forget to do the hard work that goes into preparing for the future – how can you expect to succeed in anything Read the rest of this entry »
April 9th, 2010
Strange as people can be I was actually very surprised what happened this morning / over night on Twitter. I was unfollowed. Ooch Ouch. No big deal right. Well, actually, yeah – no big deal. But this was odd. Read the rest of this entry »
April 1st, 2010
I just saw a new user on Twitter asking for help! The tweet was simple: “teach me how to use twitter” (I’ll assume he meant to say ‘please’)… Well, it doesn’t surprise me that new users don’t ‘get it’ so here’s the basics: Read the rest of this entry »
March 31st, 2010
Why oh why do these scam-artists keep doing it? I am really starting to dislike (I mean hate) Twitter. Scam, BS, Con, Trick, Spam… Is that all there is to it? Read the rest of this entry »
March 31st, 2010
So what if I clickety clicked on ‘Follow’ or I became a ‘Fan’ or even if I gave you my darn email address so I could get your RSS in my spam box every week – I’m not even slightly interested in whatever it is you’re selling. Read the rest of this entry »
February 4th, 2010
A quick follow on of the video I did about Facebook Friends, Twitter Followers etc., Read the rest of this entry »
February 4th, 2010
I struggled to think of a title for this post because it is about the people who build lists of thousands of friends, followers and fans on the social networks. Read the rest of this entry »
