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Does anybody else find it ironic that this complaint comes from the guy who invented "You should follow me on Twitter"?
by jcromartie 15y ago
Does anybody else find it ironic that this complaint comes from the guy who invented "You should follow me on Twitter"?
- stanleydrew 15y agoI've been thinking about it for a minute and a half and I actually have no idea why that's ironic.
- jcromartie 15y agoJust because he says > Also, saying "You should move it to the Trash" is weirdly strong wording. when he published a very influential write-up[1] of how he discovered that "you should follow me on Twitter" was the best text to use to actually get people to click the link and follow him. It's not unlikely that people implementing this UI were actually influenced by Dustin's original findings when choosing this wording. So he may be calling his own idea "weirdly strong", which is how I always felt about his "you should follow me on Twitter" phrase (and the resulting explosion of it around the web). It's a meme come full-circle, and the father doesn't recognize it! [1] http://www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html http://www.dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.... Dustin has clout in the web UI/UX/whatever designer blogo-webo-sphere.