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Re: Are you part of the ‘worldwide talkshow’?

morganb — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:29:04 -0000

I agree but the thing I like about him is that he surfaces cool stuff that I
can then go and think about how it works for what I am doing. He's like a
giant filter on the noise of the web which is handy to super-busy folks who
want to be up on the early stuff but can't sift through it all.

Re: Are you part of the ‘worldwide talkshow’?

futureofrealestate — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:25:17 -0000

I was the first person in the United States... blah blah blah. I'm following 20000 people...

Scoble's schtick hasn't changed in a year since I saw him speak in PDX at the Internet Strategy Session.

Frankly I'm a little sick of the "look how cool all of this stuff is" angle he brings with him. No real substance to any of his talks.

Re: Don’t Spam My Twitter Feed!

morganb — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:41:04 -0000

I agree completely. The receiver decides. It's up to the marketer to
clearly understand that relationship dynamic and not abuse an invite in the
first place. If I've welcomed a marketer to my twitter feed by following
them I can just as easily unfollow them if they choose to use their twitter
feed as a spamalicious broadcasting station.

Re: Don’t Spam My Twitter Feed!

webomatica — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:00:44 -0000

The more I think about this - most "marketers" think their message is worthwhile (not spam) and the customer would really like their product if they only knew about. I'm on the "spamee" side, and feel that any message I don't want to read and didn't ask for is esentially spam, and undesireable.

But here's the point - as the receiver of the message, I'm the one who gets to decide what is and what isn't spam. Not the sender of the message. Sorry.

Re: Don’t Spam My Twitter Feed!

Martin Diano — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:53:45 -0000

You are dead on target with your analysis. I sure hope many of your regular readers will social bookmark this post to spead to word throughout the twitterverse.

We'll follow the comments on this post and do a follow-up post in a few weeks.

Re: Don’t Spam My Twitter Feed!

bradcoy — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:56:37 -0000

Don't pee in my twitter stream man! hehehe

Well put. I try bitting my tongue often as not to be to chatty on twitter. Not to be elitist like Obama but I don't care much for the following:

@bradcoy Good morning, how are you?
@bradcoy why?
@bradcoy did you see the email I sent you?

Another thing would be if we could somehow put a halt on twitterfeeds 5 posts at a time of flickr photos or blog posts that I'm going to catch in my reader anyway. I know I have the option to UNfollow. But I guess like all relationships with people you like -- you take the good with the bad.

Noise can be tolerated and/or shut off however. Have you seen www.twittersnooze.com yet? :)

The spam should be an interesting thing to see twitter deal with. News this week says they're taking it on.