I’ve been fascinated by the art and science of building a relevant network of Twitter followers in the past few months. Like I’ve written before, I didn’t really spend a large amount of time with Twitter until May of this year. Since then, I’ve learned quite a bit. In previous posts I’ve written about ways - Read More -
The absolute #1 pain in the neck Twitter nuisance for me these days are the hordes of Twitter auto direct messages I receive after following someone. It has practically made Twitter DM a useless tool for me. If anyone actually sends me a legitimate DM, it’s lost in a sea of spammy auto DMs encouraging - Read More -
In an earlier post, I talked about the idea of quality vs. quantity when it comes to building out your Twitter following. Since then, I’ve noticed two schools of thought when it comes to the art and science of Twitter following. Those that follow everyone that follows them, and those that only follow a select - Read More -
There aren’t many folks who will argue that social networking isn’t a valuable tool for business. However there are very few who are actually taking full advantage of those opportunities. For the past few months I’ve had the luxury of watching a new local business not only use social networking and community building to build - Read More -
Twitter is certainly an interesting phenomenon. On one hand, it’s all the rage these days and what practically everyone is talking about. On the other hand, most people try it once and never return. In fact roughly 60% of users fail to return (Nielson Wire), so it’s clearly a tool that only web savvy users - Read More -