For a while now I have wanted to write a post comparing what I see going on with Twitter to the rise of MySpace. I was a very early adopter on MySpace and leveraged that site for all I could on a personal and professional level. It was a social network that I knew inside and out, including how people gamed certain portions of it. Unfortunately I was late to …
An evaluation of auto generated direct messages (DMs) on Twitter
Personally I am not a fan of auto direct messages on Twitter. I don’t use them, I get why people use them but it isn’t something I would do. Over the last two months I received close to 400 direct messages on Twitter. Instead of complaining about them I figured I would take the time to celebrate some of the horrifically bad messages that I get. (Names and links have …
Thursday, March 26, 2009 @ 7:51 am by Kevin
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TweepMe is like every MySpace friend train utterly worthless
There has been a lot of noise over the last 24 hours about the new website TweepMe, thanks specifically to AlohaArleen and her consistent promotion for the website on Twitter to her large audience. Arleen also wrote a blog under the guise of it being “research” where she interviews the owner of the site. I was appalled to see some of the comments on her blog where people were thanking …
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 @ 3:38 pm by Kevin
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Twitter Account Growth and the Impact It Has on Subscriber Count
One of the enjoyable things about launching Social Media Answers is that I can use my own blog to experiment and test some different theories out. Currently one of the topics that I am fascinated about is the idea that people can use Twitter to build some sort of authority and following. I talked about the idea of people aiming to get to the broadcast position in social media before …
Monday, March 9, 2009 @ 9:43 am by Kevin
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Why Getting In Early Is Important
One of the most common tips that I read when people talk about social media strategy and even how to avoid social media burnout is that you should pick to a couple of outlets and focus on them. By not trying to tackle every single social media platform you are able to focus and really get something out of your effort instead of being spread thin. I completely agree with …
Monday, February 23, 2009 @ 9:39 am by Kevin
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Everything that is wrong with social media in one video
Before I launch into this I just want to say that what I write on this blog is my opinion. What I write about on here is how I use social media and the techniques I use not THE way you should use social media. Increasingly I have read and watched people telling others THE way to use tools out there and the advice they are giving is usually so …
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 @ 8:57 am by Kevin
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How to evaluate and rank blogs in a niche
This kind of dovetails into the discussion from yesterday about wine bloggers and their evolution, how do you evaluate people within the niche? While I am relating this to wine bloggers this technique can be used in any small niche. There has been a lot of talk about how to find top blogs within a certain niche, Jason Falls and Marshall Kirkpatrick both have two excellent posts about how to …
Thursday, January 15, 2009 @ 8:51 am by Kevin
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Tags: alexa, blog ranking, Blogging, compete, facebook, MySpace, quantcast, social media, Twitter, wine blogs
Is the real ultimate goal of social media to get to the broadcast position?
I have been watching people use various networks for years and for the average user their contributions and participations have multiple motivation factors. For the power user, the marketer, the brand, or the promoter it seems clear to me that their goal, even though they don’t actually know it or define it as such, is to get to the broadcast position. Clay Shirky talks about the broadcast position in his …
Friday, January 9, 2009 @ 12:03 pm by Kevin
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How Much of the Social Web Is a Numbers Game?
When you examine social media how much of it is about connections or building a relationship and how much of it is a pure numbers game? In the last couple of weeks I have gone to various social media sites and went on an adding spree just to see what would happen. Digg, Twitter, and Blog Catalog were my specific targets; I didn’t send messages with the ad and I …
Monday, March 17, 2008 @ 11:43 am by Kevin
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What Happens When You Add 1000 People on Twitter
Last weekend in a fit of boredom and procrastination I decided to follow around 1000 Twitter members on my twitter account just to see what would happen. It took me about an hour and a half to add 1000 members but it gave me something to do besides school work and unpacking. Statistically the results can be measured as: 1) I gained over 300 new followers on Twitter, basically gave …
Monday, March 3, 2008 @ 5:45 pm by Kevin
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