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How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes
- brk 18y agoThis is humorous on so many levels. One subtle point in all this is something I've mentioned a couple of times... All these "marketing" people are trying to build up their online personas on sites like Twitter and Facebook and so on. Yet things like this show that you have NO CONTROL over these services. I don't believe that this "social media" thing can support the marketeer's for a sustainable period. Building your own sites, on your own servers, on your own domain (and yes, I realize that domain names are really more leased than owned, but there is at least a central semi-logical process behind most of it), seems like a far more logical approach. Twitter, Facebook, Flicr, etc. only need to make a minor change, or toss in the towel, and all this marketing effort will have disappeared into the ether.
- tlrobinson 18y agoEven when you do have control it's not hard to screw up... http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/01/21/key-online-influencer/ http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/01/21/key-online-influenc... ("keyinfluencer"... please!)
- mattmaroon 18y agoHow is this even remotely of interest to anyone?
- ivankirigin 18y agoLots of people try to get to a good brand on twitter. There are thousands of "social media consultants" that advise people how to get it: http://www.fanboy.com/2009/01/social-media-experts-rant.html http://www.fanboy.com/2009/01/social-media-experts-rant.html The crowd is fragile.
- axod 18y ago"social media consultants"?? Now I've heard it all...
- fallentimes 18y agoI thought "success coach" was the worst I had heard. So many smut peddlers.
- moe 18y agoThat device. The one to stab people in the face. Over the internet. Where can I buy it.
- mattmaroon 18y agoYeah but this guy seems to be actively trying to lose users. I don't think anyone hiring social media consultants would do that.
- ivankirigin 18y agoMy point was just that creating / maintaining / destroying a brand on twitter would be interesting to lots of people. Not just the cancer SM consultants though.
- axod 18y agoI'm surprised they're not actually reporting the issues twitter has been having the last week or so - random followers removed, random tweets not showing up...
- moe 18y agoYeah, and nobody ever reported about that bag of rice that fell over in china yesterday. It's a media conspiracy!
- jgilliam 18y agoAnyone who builds a twitter following that large and isn't actually famous clearly has major issues... as evidenced by this total meltdown over something as silly as a caching bug.