I used Tweepular to rid myself of a bunch of accounts that weren’t returning my follow on Twitter. I shook them off like the fleas they are! The service works great.
Then I happened to check @netkritter, and discovered that a Twitter account called Follower Monitor was notifying many of them that @netkritter had dropped them.
So I looked it [...]
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Follower Monitor bot on Twitter: If you unfollow, they WILL know
Testing the effectiveness of Linked In group discussions
A few weeks back there was a discussion in a Linked In group for e-marketers in which the initiator complained about people who start topics ostensibly to have a substantive discussion, but it’s actually an attempt to promote their services – usually consulting of some kind or another. Anyone who’s spent any time in Linked [...]
Smooth career moves by Twitter users
Enjoy this survey of career-enhancing information helpfully shared with the world on Twitter. On Resume Bear.
Drive-by tweetings
Here’s an interesting behavior I’ve observed on Twitter. Let’s say Tweeter A and Tweeter B are having a disagreement in real life with Tweeter C. Let’s be generous and say it’s a professional disagreement. All three are following each other, and a bunch of their other mutual acquaintances (D,E,F…) are also following all three of them. A [...]
My contribution to the red-hot, crucial debate over gender pronouns
CNN reports that there’s a debate brewing on Twitter about the fact that English can be really awkward when it comes to gender pronouns. (And it’s a big one, too – 18 whole tweets already!)
The problem is when we use a singular noun but don’t know whether we’re referring to a male or female. It’s [...]
Social networking snobbery
As the number of social networking sites continues to grow, so does the degree of audience fragmentation. Users will gravitate toward the site or sites where they feel the most comfortable, where the membership, the culture, the tone most closely match their needs and preferences. For a while everybody was on MySpace. Then more sites [...]
Death by overtweet
Recently had to stop following a friend on Twitter because he pretty much took over my entire computer screen every time I logged in to the site. I follow about 40 people, but to look at my screen you’d think I was following only two or three, because there’d be 20 or more posts from [...]