How to waste my time on Twitter

25 Dec 2009

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And anyone’s else for that matter. It’s not hard, you just have to ignore the most basic common sense rules of web-sharing and communication.

Be an ‘Internet Marketing Guru’

Yes, a guru, a ninja or a rockstar. You choose your title. After that, add me on Twitter. I’m a trusty fellow and allow Twitter to announce me when I’m added so that I can check everyone out and see their beautiful tweets. But not you Mister I.M. Rockstar. Let’s see how your profile looks:

Following: 65.000 (roughly)
Followers: 64.000 (roughly)
Tweets: 5000 (roughly)

Out of all these people you’re following or follow you, you TALKED to how many? You retweeted how many links from them, or from other accounts/websites? Why are your last 5-6 pages filled with links to your amazing schemes to make money online fast and online sales pages to obscure ebooks for which people have to pay to learn that they can use AdSense to monetize their blogs? Come on! Add me! See if I care!

Twitter is about communication. About states. About the moment. Twitter is about friends and great content. Twitter is not about “I’m a guru in my own backyard!”. Twitter is about “I’m an Internet Marketing ENTHUSIAST, and I want to SHARE some amazing content with you!”

Make me click… and click… and click…

This happens so often lately. Way more often than it should (aka NEVER). These days folks share link on Twitter that send to Digg or some other obscure Digg clone. And as if that is not enough, the link posted on Digg leads to another “news” aggregation website that rarely has an excerpt listen, and in its turn links to the original post. So, to access that content that YOU PROMISED me within your tweet, I have to go through 2 websites that I don’t give a c**p about. I’m definitely not going to vote anything before I read it. And surely, if I vote, I’ll vote for the original website, not the news aggregation website!

But it’s cool. People need to pull their page ranks up, their traffic levels. Domains can be sold later for a better price. We know. We were not born last week.

So, the next time you do that, think of it as if you were actually spamming the Twitter flow, cause that’s what you are doing. Don’t expect Twtter love back, RTs, and followfridays.

Yes, I’m venting

Why do I care about it? Because I enjoy the tweets I get from my followers. Because I trust them with my “follow” and expect the same respect back. If you wrote a GOOD article and need votes (if that’s the case), just state it. Link to the original article and give me a voting link so that I can vote if I feel like it after I read it. That’s SOCIAL. That’s MEDIA. Not what so-called ‘gurus’ understand. Time to clean up my Twitter account.

Happy and smart tweeting folks!

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2 Responses to How to waste my time on Twitter

technician

March 11th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

Twitter is a micro-blogging site. Twittering is a verb form made from the name of the site to signify participation. Micro-Blogging in general is a designation for a SHORT update that fits in the allowed characters of an SMS message.

Cliffieduckie

March 17th, 2010 at 4:28 am

I found this website

It said this about parrots and it relates to any other birds

The Towel Method:
Aggressive parrots need to be cranked down several notches on the peck order or social hierarchy of the Family. The quickest and most humane way to do this is to catch the bird when it attacks you in a bath or beach towel. Choose a light colored or white towel. Several wraps around the bird will protect you from its beak. Wrap the towel around and around the bird and then peel the top of the towel down like a banana skin to expose the parrot’s head. If you have the bird snugly and securely wrapped you can approach his head from behind and begin to scratch and groom the top of his head. As he becomes resigned to getting groomed you can begin to scratch lower near the corners of his chin and beak where they really love it. He may growl when you do this but if he is securely wrapped he should not be able to bite you. I carry these birds around with me in the house and have them sit through a 30-minute television program while bundled up. After a minute or two the bird will cease to struggle. After doing this every day for a few weeks there will be a profound change in the bird’s personality. His bonds to a single member of the household (the one he preens) should diminish and he should be less aggressive to the rest of the Family. When the parrot is at ease in the towel begin to unwrap him when he is on his back. Continue to stroke him as you do this until he does not resist this position.

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