Comments on: Twidiots of the World, Unite! http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/ Have Blog. Will Travel. Tue, 29 May 2012 07:38:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sally Janavicius http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-90032 Fri, 01 May 2009 04:57:24 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-90032 .

]]> By: Sally Janavicius http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-90031 Fri, 01 May 2009 04:56:14 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-90031 I agree – if you don’t already have an online following you’ll be twittering to yourself which doesn’t accomplish much!

]]> By: FoolsGold http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-82836 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:07:07 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-82836 “…I would rather pull out unknown or ‘unauthoritative’ voices to challenge my own viewpoint rather than blindly accept what a few popular people tell me is the truth…”

Good!! Its those ‘outlier’ opinions that often the most interesting ones. So mining the twitter stream for the less authoritative might be more informative.

“Follow” on Twitter seems to embrace a simple act of keeping informed about something but it also seems to include an obsessive fan-club focus as well.

As for that ‘small to medium sized firm’… the use of a twitter widget will draw followers.

]]> By: Bobby Mucic http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-82830 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:18:52 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-82830 I totally agree about Twitter being fun, but as a business/marketing/advertising tool – it only helps if you already have an online following. That is, becoming a trusted internet resource takes more than mini-posts and chatter.

So people like Guy Kawasaki, Matt Cutts, Steve Jobs, etc can immediately benefit and connect to the masses with twitter… but what about a small to medium business?

]]> By: Joe Duck http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-82781 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:29:38 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-82781 FG I’d argue that, ultimately, Peoria rules. However as we get there the Silicon Valley gangs will have hugely disproportionate influence. That’s not necessarily bad, just interesting.

]]> By: FoolsGold http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-82764 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:48:12 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-82764 It seems to be a means of assigning individual tweets some sort of popularity ranking as a means of determining value. Well only in junior high school is popularity equated to value.

Will it play in Peoria has always been a necessary consideration. Peoria may be viewed as not quite as technologically au courant as Silicon Valley, but its those Peoria dollars that count!

]]> By: glenn http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-82756 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:02:38 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-82756 Joe the first four letters of Twitter sum it up nicely.

]]> By: JoeDuck http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-82755 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:41:42 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-82755 Thx for thoughtful comments. Yes Carrie I’m sick of many of the twitter/blog/ tech elite as well because they no longer represent the best voices out there. This is a combination of poor writing, narrow focus, and commercial concerns. There are exceptions but it would be nice to get away from the cults of personality that are starting to plague technology. Maybe that is not possible but I thought it was what the new media was all about.

]]> By: Agitationist http://joeduck.com/2008/12/28/twidiots-of-the-world-unite/#comment-82750 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:33:33 +0000 http://joeduck.com/?p=2669#comment-82750 Thanks for calling it a fad, even if you did cross it out. I agree with that assessment:
http://agitationist.com/1500-more-reasons-twitter-must-die
But if it must live, your approach makes sense. These Twitter “elites” are just people who just want to get up a ladder first and then throw sh*t down at the ones behind them. Marketers, self-promoters, PR/ad people…exactly the ones with nothing to say anyway.

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