Saturation Point

There was a thread, an interesting one, on a Facebook Business Page. I had commented and I followed a couple of links from it. I went off to do something

Twitter Ignorance – Are You Playing the Game?

Twitter Ignorance is the only title I could think of when I decided to write this post… After-all, quite frankly, what else can you call it? People ignoring people is, pretty much, what Twitter is all about. Isn’t it? I may follow you and you may kindly reciprocate but chances are I won’t make it [...]

How To Get Your Twitter Account Closed Down Fast

Having seen so many “How To” videos and ‘squeeze pages’ that try yo tell one and all How To Get Twitter Followers, I struggle to pick myself up off the floor. Get Thousands of Twitter Followers Fast and Free! Give me a break! Anyone with an ounce of commonsense can see that somewhere in that [...]

Dialogue Creates Interest

It continues to amaze me as I observe ‘marketing’ activity on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (etc) and I wonder who these people have been listening to. Monologues; Tweeting your own links, posting your own links as status updates in Facebook and LinkedIn, but completely lacking of real ‘engagement’. What I mean by that, quite [...]

It’s True: Twitter Users Would Follow A Bad Smell

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 [...]

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People On Twitter

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 [...]

Without Roots You Have No Tree

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

Isn’t Twitter A Funny Old Bird

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.

Twitter – The Absolute Basics

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:

Oh Please – Another Sexy Twitter Avatar Scam

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?