Comments on: The secret to my (alleged) Twitter “success” revealed

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:58:12 +0000

As a social media platform that is fun to use, I get Twitter. As something I can use to assist in the process of making money, I don’t get it. I’ve read about all these techniques that people use to make it work for business, but I’ve never been able to make things work for me and I don’t think I am alone.
Unless you’re a celebrity or a major brand, I don’t see where any type of critical and sustainable mass comes from.
I’d love to be wrong and find a way that it fits the little guy, but right now its just a time suck.

By: Ashley Warren

Ashley Warren — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:06:50 +0000

I agree that Twitter will likely become irrelevant soon, or perhaps that is just wishful thinking. In some ways I think the social media outlets have gotten a little out of hand. If you keep up and follow all of them, you will literally waste several hours a day. It has gotten to the point that I cannot play a simply game on my iPod without signing up for some type of social gaming group that keeps up with all of my friends. What is so bad about having anonymity at times?

By: that damn redhead

that damn redhead — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:18:01 +0000

It's important to remember that Facebook wasn't founded with a business model, either. Only in the last couple years have they actually produced any revenue. The problem is that "social media," at its very ethos, is to be social first. It's when people get the idea that "Hey, we could make money off this... somehow..." that stuff starts to get complicated.

Back before this big SM explosion, I made many good connections simply by blogging. In fact, I still have some good friends that I met through our blogs. I think the thing about blogging is that you have no choice but to be more "intimate" with your audience and as a reader ... sure, you could post tiny <140 character posts, but in order to truly make a connection, there needs to be an ongoing reader-author relationship.

In the beginning of the year, when everybody decides they're psychic and pulls out their crystal ball to predict what the upcoming year would have in store for social media, I predicted a backlash. It's August now and we're knee deep in posts like this, this, and mocking sites like this.

We're going to go back to a place where we're either "more comfortable" or simply "relying on the tried and true," and there's nothing wrong with that. There will always be us early adopters with shiny object syndrome, but the fact of the matter is that we as humans like what we know works - whether that's for social reasons or business reasons doesn't matter.

By: Andrew Peel

Andrew Peel — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:33:17 +0000

I have developed a view Twitter will become irrelevant soon. It’s basically too chaotic and has no sound business model unlike Facebook. This from soneone who invested some time in gaining c13k Followers. I liked your post on too much me in Social Media and Twitter is essentially the ultimate ‘me’ machine. It’s based on being a micro or even mega celebrity and I for one have run out of things to Tweet except to say I have written a post or an article.
In fact there was a period when I went vital on Twitter and was getting a lot of Followers per day and all I was doing was using TBUZZ to tweet was piqued my interest as I browsed. I am finding Blogging and getting stronger conections there much more creative and satisfying.

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By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:17:41 +0000

Thanks for the plug, redhead. I still tinker with Twitter — and I still don’t have it down. Over 90% of the people I follow today are in the government world — but because 1) they don’t stick to their brand, and 2) they (re)tweet a lot of stuff that doesn’t appeal to me, I am checking the stream less and less.
I follow people on Twitter for an initial reason and when that reason is no longer inspiring to me — or when the person I am following ceases to enrich me via his/her tweets, I unfollow. I also sometimes shift people from stream to list, and so while people think I unfollow them, I’m really not. I also know who I am friends with on Facebook and LinkedIn and whose blogs I read, so if I am following someone’s blog I don’t necessarily need to follow that person’s tweets. I don’t follow you on Twitter, for instance; but I’m here.