Comments on: Twitter Redux – Making Sense of Social Media Madness

By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:52:58 +0000

@Paula – I suspect in the end, Twitter will be used for purely marketing purposes, or purely social purposes, but probably not much in between. On the purely marketing side, it’s back to the cheeseburger conundrum.

By: Paula from Affiliate Blog Online

Paula from Affiliate Blog Online — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:55:13 +0000

I’m still in two minds about Twitter. At the moment I am treating it as purely a test to see how it all pans out. I am waiting till I hit 10,000 followers before I make a decision on whether it is worth it all.
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By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:47:28 +0000

@jan: You brought up the two things that I cannot stand most about Twitter. I am sick to death of DMs that have some “I got rich and you can too, click this link” messages.

I noticed that thing where they randomly post an @ message at users. I see about two of those a day. I’ve more than once reported it as spam. Twitter’s going to have to get ahold on how to filter stuff in the future, it totally makes the experience ANNOYING.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:34:07 +0000

@jan – yeah, automated “thank you” is an oxymoron.

I haven’t automated anything yet, but I don’t have anything in particular against it… as long as nobody can tell it’s automated! I’ve got a fair bit of material lodged back in the archive that’s still relevant. I’ll find a reasonable way to bring it forward.

Posting at 33 minutes past the every 2 hours is dumb. Posting same time every day is dumb. In fact, posting every day would be a dumb way to automate. Random is better. None on one day, 3 the next, one the following, then none for 2-3 days. &c.
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By: jan geronimo

jan geronimo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:20:00 +0000

Automated tweets. Lots of people use that, but I don’t. I’m part eager social media adopter and part old school in that sense.

My pet peeve is getting “gifts” from people who I have no previous conversations before. For example, user A sent me a DM telling I was given “peace and happiness” and could I send a gift back, with URL provided. How about a normal conversation, prefixed with hi. Has that gone out of fashion already?

Spammers I notice are directly addressing you in the public timeline, using @username plus spammy message. They might have noticed poor conversion rate from spamming DMs?

Great perspective, Dave. Enjoyed this post immensely.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:42:20 +0000

@Andrew – Twitter is exactly like irc except:
1. Short posts
2. Only one channel (WTF!!!? Who let the hoi polloi in?)
3. No operators.

FWIW, being an op on an existing IRC channel was a big deal. IIRC (and I may not), I was an op on the EFNet #java channel for a while.
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By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:27:48 +0000

Online since 1994! Dave you old bast…. “Wise, Knowledgable Wordpress King”.

Twitter is brilliant if used properly. I’m only ‘new’ to it, and in combination with tweetdeck you can easily filter out all the noise. regardless of how many followers/followees you get, i have ‘1′ column of people I choose to listen to and join in the conversation with. Sure it’s a bit marketting game but you’ve got to make the conversations happen yourself.

From your experience Dave has twittered improved things or is it just another spam avenue?
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:23:40 +0000

@Extreme – I haven’t actually noticed any dentists yet. If a dentist within walking distance advertised this with a discount, that would be different. I might just walk over there and see what’s up.

@Blake – I follow and unfollow a couple of people every day. Strangely, I don’t get huge lists of people following me… they must be angry I don’t follow them back or something. Whatever.

@DiTesco – I haven’t looked into groups and lists yet. Still a little behind the power curve I guess.
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By: DiTesco

DiTesco — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:28:33 +0000

I once was more annoyed about people sending me Tweets about Teeth Whitening service and all, but simply put, I learned how to manage better the people that really interest me and that is by creating groups. Now with the twitter list, it is even simpler to do so. For example, I use Hootsuite and I have two groups of people that really interest me (you included, haha)… This are the only Tweets I see and occasionally maybe I will look at my Twitter stream. And BTW, don’t bother sending me a DM, I simply do not look at those anymore…
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By: Blake @ Props Blog Reviews

Blake @ Props Blog Reviews — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:58:24 +0000

Before I follow anyone back I always check to see if they are dropping affiliate links. Half the time I’ll even be vengeful and report them as spammers (since half the time they don’t post anything but trash).

I have mixed feeling about following a ton of people. With the invention of lists, I’m more likely to follow random people since I can just go check a list to filter out the noise.

I usually check my lists several times daily, but only check my full feed once or twice. If people are tweeting cool stuff, I’ll add them to a list. If they are retarded, I just unfollow.

I do have to admit though, since almost doubling my twitter following in the last 2.5 weeks, I have noticed a lot more twitter traffic than before. I wonder how much quality comes from those followers/pageviews.
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