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Comment on Pah! Curses! Gggrrr! (sob) A good morning to everyone… by Britt

Britt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:39:26 +0000

Those days are a pain in the patootie! The good thing is that the day after is usually muuuuch better…except when it’s worse. I guess it could go either way… I hope it’s better, though!

Comment on Pah! Curses! Gggrrr! (sob) A good morning to everyone… by Sam Wyld

Sam Wyld — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:10:19 +0000

I had THAT day yesterday, minus Barbie. It must be travelling south…

Planetary alignment is a good get-out clause for being in a class-A grump.

Good luck.

Comment on Quick Blog about my Twitter-app testing. by paulwilks

paulwilks — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:48:05 +0000

They are absolute darlings really!

Comment on Quick Blog about my Twitter-app testing. by Britt

Britt — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:34:08 +0000

Aren’t kids great?

Comment on Sparkling and shiny and new. by Sam Wyld

Sam Wyld — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:03:37 +0000

Wow – I’m cool… who knew?

Comment on Current forms of Marketing on Twitter are lazy and unprofessional. by paulwilks

paulwilks — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:08:50 +0000

Thanks Neil, it’s good to know some marketers effectively use Twitter in an ethical way. I think you have hit the nail on the head when you use the word ‘engagement’, surely this is what Twitter is for, not lazy advertising or spam.

Comment on Current forms of Marketing on Twitter are lazy and unprofessional. by Neil Hawke

Neil Hawke — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:59:09 +0000

Agreed. There is far too much random rubbish getting onto Twitter. As a marketeer, I am currently running a few Twitter campaigns but they are ALL done personally by me and the team and involve engagement, not hard sell.

Twitter should consider regulation to weed out these annoying parties that ruin a great service for the rest of us.

Comment on Current forms of Marketing on Twitter are lazy and unprofessional. by Carol

Carol — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:58:32 +0000

I have found it useful to think of Twitter not as a marketing outlet but as a communication with friends.

If I have something of interest to say, then people will be interested.

Comment on Current forms of Marketing on Twitter are lazy and unprofessional. by paulwilks

paulwilks — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:43:42 +0000

My error with the ‘thanks’ issue perhaps demonstrates my perspective. I’m not running an internet marketing business so when I thank people for following me it’s usually specific and personal, and often results in two-way banter about blogs or other relevant topics.

The argument exists that as Twitter is swamped with malevolent porn profiles, it perhaps needs to make the creation of profiles less straight forward. Furthermore there perhaps needs to be a code of practice for legitimate internet businesses who want to use Twitter as an initial interface, to prevent spamming.

Thank you all for your comments, my traffic has leaped over the past couple of hours!!

Comment on Current forms of Marketing on Twitter are lazy and unprofessional. by Adam Vincent Gilmer

Adam Vincent Gilmer — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:28:09 +0000

I agree with most of what you posted here. Twitter is great but having a process to be verified would be a good first step. There should be a simple way to follow similar people and provide more value to your own followers next to building a large following.

Natural Twitter progresion seems like there are several additions to help navigate the way.

Seems like Twitter is just allowing people to let others know “what are you doing?”

Again good article and post.

Adam Vincent Gilmer #8020365 Thinker! From iPhone