Comments on: Twitter as a marketing tool (or why I had to unfollow Tim O’Reilly) http://www.myblog.org/2009/05/19/twitter-as-a-marketing-tool-or-why-i-had-to-unfollow-tim-oreilly/ Personal blog of Mark Adams, business and IT guru Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:59:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Marcus Adams http://www.myblog.org/2009/05/19/twitter-as-a-marketing-tool-or-why-i-had-to-unfollow-tim-oreilly/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Marcus Adams Fri, 22 May 2009 20:13:34 +0000 http://www.myblog.org/?p=35#comment-3 Here, I thought I had decent connections through my various Yahoo groups, MySpace, FaceBook, and Twitter. I am networked directly with no less than 2000 people through these various avenues. Yet, when I recently released a new, very important, short documentary to YouTube, specifically asking people to rate the video, I was miserably disappointed in the lack of responses. I've only gotten 73 ratings after two weeks. This is through the combined effort of me and the other three people who produced the film. I'm sickened. I no longer feel bad about ignoring other people's posts. Unless it's stupid, funny, sexy, or contains a celebrity, people just aren't interested. Here, I thought I had decent connections through my various Yahoo groups, MySpace, FaceBook, and Twitter. I am networked directly with no less than 2000 people through these various avenues. Yet, when I recently released a new, very important, short documentary to YouTube, specifically asking people to rate the video, I was miserably disappointed in the lack of responses. I’ve only gotten 73 ratings after two weeks. This is through the combined effort of me and the other three people who produced the film. I’m sickened. I no longer feel bad about ignoring other people’s posts.

Unless it’s stupid, funny, sexy, or contains a celebrity, people just aren’t interested.

]]> By: Anne Wayman http://www.myblog.org/2009/05/19/twitter-as-a-marketing-tool-or-why-i-had-to-unfollow-tim-oreilly/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Anne Wayman Thu, 21 May 2009 14:19:55 +0000 http://www.myblog.org/?p=35#comment-2 Mark, you're the first person to say out loud what I've been thinking for quite awhile now... I've got 700 some followers and am supposedly following almost as many. I don't follow them... maybe three times a week I scan a couple of pages of tweets to see if there is something I want to check on - there always is something and that's why I stay... I do find things I wouldn't otherwise. I do see some traffic to my site from twitter... but not anything like the 700 who are following me... Leo Laporte pointed out something tho' that I think is valuable... there is no spam on twitter. It's not like facebook and others that are full of spam. Twitter may survive just because of that. Mark, you’re the first person to say out loud what I’ve been thinking for quite awhile now… I’ve got 700 some followers and am supposedly following almost as many. I don’t follow them… maybe three times a week I scan a couple of pages of tweets to see if there is something I want to check on – there always is something and that’s why I stay… I do find things I wouldn’t otherwise.

I do see some traffic to my site from twitter… but not anything like the 700 who are following me…

Leo Laporte pointed out something tho’ that I think is valuable… there is no spam on twitter. It’s not like facebook and others that are full of spam. Twitter may survive just because of that.

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