Tweet Blitz

by Richard Reeve on September 27, 2008

in @CCSeed

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A shift seems underway in the twitterverse that might make you consider shifting gears as well, depending on your intent and the posture you take in this micro-blogging space.  I’m fully engaged these days in personal branding.  I’m interested in micro-blogging as a form, as Shakespeare indulged the sonnet.  I also enjoy threading @ conversations, and providing folks with links to my blog.  Others have different goals.  So the question is how do these developments effect you? 

The first is the explosion of the political diatribe along with the separate viewing stream twitter set up.  Many innovators in the field see this as a sign of further things to come, where events and promotions will grab that marketing space to drive and focus interests. Could be useful.  Could be horrible.  Probably will be somewhat useful, and somewhat horrible.

The second is the activity of @grader, bringing the karma sense over from plurk.  Now who can resist seeing how they stack up?  But here’s the rub.  This morning I had a score of 51.  After a day of focusing my attention on finding groups of folks I think will reciprocate following me, I’ve jumped to a 77.  I intentionally scammed my way up that ladder, passing about 7000 folks that have registered, not because the grade means anything to me, but because I needed to test my hypothesis.  I was right, the grade doesn’t mean anything.  It not @graders fault.  I think what’s called for is where supposedly web 3.0 is headed, where programs will be able to understand the value of content as well as amount of activity.  I would encourage @grader to be a leader in developing and bringing those tools to social media, so folks can better align themselves with each other.  To this end, I currently use the Twitter Tag Cloud tool so I can at least get a snapshot of content. 

A plea to all you developers: Help us find our peeps…

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  • Interesting points, as usual. I like the way your post goes along with the imagery in the picture, the many grains of sand, the one that stands out bigger than the rest. The millions of tweets, the goal of creating a personal brand.

    I am also looking to connect with people in a meaningful way. I would find it valuable to be able to organize twitter friends some way, via the current Web interface. I have looked at a lot of the awesome free downloads available, but it would be nice that if I am away from home, on a computer somewhere, to be able to access the main Twitter Web App and have some extra functionality there.

    Mainly, if we had the ability to put the people we choose to follow on twitter into groups, we could have a few different browser tabs open to access different group views. Ideally I would set it up so I could see one stream of everyone (which is fun!), one for just my close friends/family so their updates would not get lost in the rest, and maybe one other group/tab open for a group of people in a field I find interesting. Eventually perhaps we could do the @Reply but have it be to the @Group, that would be cool. Everyone could still see it all of course, it would just give us another level of interaction.

    That is my geeky software development dream for the night! :) Thanks for another thought provoking post.
  • Thanks I enjoy your writing it has value as well a tone. This blogging is new to me .I am old school looking and enjoying the journey even when I have to call my daughter and her supper geek husband and say what do need to do now. I write, spell, use grammar using west Texas phonics as a second language.
    When someone diss GWB I think whats the problem sounds okie dokie to me. :)
  • Great post and important questions. I actually don't like the election banner at the top of twitter. It made me feel like twitter would end up being like MySpace in the long run. I was also disappointed by the basic name calling that came through the election twitter stream last night. Not helpful.
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    In the ten minutes since I posted this, my grader score up another 10 points and I passed another 1000 folks... On the flip side, through my experiment I did connect with three new folks in a meaningful way, which is why I do this. Apologies to all those I cut in line...
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