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By: My followers on Twitter: Ignore, block, or #unfollowfriday? | rob's place

My followers on Twitter: Ignore, block, or #unfollowfriday? | rob's place — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:36:23 +0000

[...] can be used for one-way and multi-way communication/conversation. You can talk publicly to everyone or privately to someone. Some of the rules for how you can [...]

By: rob

rob — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:38:44 +0000

@Dana- your boycott post is right on. There is too much noise on every website (just do a search for anything and you’ll find noise). It is indeed up to us to add value.

By: For People Who Don’t ‘Get’ Twitter (or any other media) | rob's place

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:52:10 +0000

[...] an email today that was in response to my post yesterday on my business blog about how Twitter is like Email. The person said: i still don’t “GET” twitter. i think i understand it, but i [...]

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:39:41 +0000

Rob, I like the “Share something” approach.

I wrote a post about use of social media and status updates, ““What are you doing?” Boycott”
http://pixelposition.com/boycott/

Often, people who are new to social media answer the question posed by Facebook and Twitter, which turns into a lot of social media noise, IMHO. Facebook’s change a few days ago to “What’s on your mind?” is a slight improvement.

Bottom line is that social media will become valuable as more people share value, creating a higher signal-to-noise ratio.

By: Jeremy Hilton

Jeremy Hilton — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:50:23 +0000

@kevin Another great analogy. Although as the head of an email marketing department, any subject line over 40 characters makes me shudder

By: rob

rob — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:48:14 +0000

@Geno – it’s like when blogs came out people said “I don’t want to read about what you did today”. Now most realize a blog can be used for any communication. Twitter is no different. And you’re absolutely right – there is no “magic app”. They all do their own thing for particular purposes.

@Jim – when I started my first blog, I put at the bottom of each post “comment publicly” and “comment privately”. The public one opened the comment box. The private one opened an email form. But once people learned the difference, I dropped it. The principles are all the same, it’s just each technology calls it something different.

By: Jim Tobin at Ignite Social Media

Jim Tobin at Ignite Social Media — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:29:38 +0000

Rob,

Good analogy. I find a lot of newbies get thrown by the @ and D functions, sort of like they get thrown by the wall versus the inbox (and which is private) in Facebook.

~Jim

By: geno

geno — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:22:27 +0000

rob, your points are right on.

I know quite a few people who tell me their over it(twitter). Twitter is not a magic app. Your point that like any other communication technology, it isn’t all that new, It’s the “how,” we use it. People have to invest, and get into the action not just snipe.

But on the other hand if sniping is what you want to do, well… snipe.

By: rob

rob — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:55:25 +0000

@Kevin – I thought about it as a subject line, but then decided to go this route instead so that I could put the #tag and RT in the subject line. Either way makes sense. The point is that the concepts of Twitter, just like any other communication technologies, isn’t all that new. We already know ‘what’ to do, just each tech brings a new ‘how’.

By: Kevin Donahue

Kevin Donahue — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:51:45 +0000

Great analogy. I’ll take it one further… twitter is like an email to the world where you only type the subject.