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Social Networking

Why Joining 38,943 People is Bad

Nov. 5, 2009

Copyblogger is among the blogs I’ve read for about 18 months. Not every day, not every week; but it’s always among my list of subscribed and go-to sites for useful advice. I’m a Brian Clark groupie.
His writing aside, I don’t approve of his focusing on the number of people following him on Twitter as a [...]

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Twitter Grading Over 30 Days

Nov. 1, 2009

One month ago, I explained why applications like Twitter Grader were meaningless, including the following example:
Returning to twitter.grader.com/ariherzog now, I see:
Let’s see what happens in another month.

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What is the Cost of Online Friends?

Oct. 26, 2009

Shelly Kramer inspired me with this Twitter message about the joy of translating her online friendships to offline encounters:

IRL is shorthand for “in real life.”
My response: Big whoop.
I mean, yeah, it’s nice and all and I appreciate the concept as I have formed many friendships and business partnerships as the direct result of online [...]

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Want to Meet My First 221 Twitter Friends?

Oct. 3, 2009

Short of sharing details of their lives, here’s the next best thing. Courtesy of the fine folks at Sxoop Technologies, I want to share with you the below Twitter Mosaic of the first 221 tweeps I am following, interacting with, and learning from.
Plus or minus a few additions and subtractions, these are educated and intellectual [...]

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Why My Twitter Account is Brand New – and What it Means for You

Oct. 1, 2009

I’m no stranger to changing Twitter strategies.
The last big shift occurred in April 2009 when I opted to automatically follow every person and organization who followed me, creating an identical match of numbers between those who followed me and those I followed. Two weeks later, I explained why I unfollowed everyone on Twitter–over 7,000 accounts–and [...]

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Poll Indicates Tweeters Prefer Attribution

Sep. 26, 2009

If you wrote something and @Mary tweets about your content without mentioning your name, do you care?
Such was a question I posed on a Twitter poll yesterday. The results speak for themselves.

The poll was the result of a 24-hour Twitter conversation I had with Josh Peters. You can read it here in reverse chronological order:

Initiating [...]

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How Readtwit Improves Twitter Productivity

Sep. 17, 2009

Because Twitter is analogous to a river’s flow that you are not expected to watch non-stop, it is presumptive you will miss tweets when you’re not looking. But what about links — those external blog posts, videos, and audio recordings that the people you follow are including in their 140-character updates?
It’s one thing to miss [...]

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