I have never really liked the kind of blog posts with titles presuming advice, kind of “21 things to know before you… blah blah” even if I considered some of them of high utility, especially the ones with the name of a certain brand, tool or whatever interested me at the time in it, after the designated number of things I presumably had to know. Of course I’ve appreciated a few, by commenting on them or tweeting about them, but they represented always a turn-off for me. I know and I heard that this sort of titles have a lot of success in publishing. I continue to presume that not liking them is a strictly personal matter. All this introduction comes just to justifying myself in giving this un-requested bunch of advices that will follow. Of course, again a matter of personal likes and dislikes on Twitter, nothing more. These days, a new category will be inaugurated, but this is another thing, altogether.
Big Ben at night
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I’m not explaining here what Twitter is, there are books on the subject, there are the “Dummies” category, the O’Reilly, the Twitter Help or 101 manual itself and so on. This is not even a masked advert for the famous social media platform. What follows is another group of opinions on how I see the things going there. A fact is that a lot of the people with accounts there, don’t get Twitter at all, nor have a valid idea. It’s just trendy. This is the great majority. Maybe more than 80%, which is enormous. Another 15% or more are ferocious marketeers who pays for being proficient there, and only the rest knows or has a greater idea about how efficient is Twitter in communication, marketing, friendship, networking, whatever you imagine to use it by thinking at a Social Network. The specialists are saying that it is more efficient than Facebook, and they must be right on that (leaving away my subjectivism regarding Zuckerberg’s network). They have some numbers at hand, some statistics. On Twitter even the machines have access, the automated accounts which “tweet” continuously only adverts and links to landing pages. They can be annoying. But if you don’t follow them, you don’t see them, and if you don’t see them, you’re not annoyed by them. It’s that simple. On the other hand, the great majority follows everybody or follows just the people they know or follows nobody. After that they declare themselves annoyed, bored or more bored saying that twitter “has lost all the fun”, fun which they never enjoyed, because they never knew of it’s existence from the beginning. People consider Twitter restrictive, because they can’t show a million of pics at the same moment as they show on Facebook and they can’t figure more than the avatar which is because of that totally instable, and the person not being recognized can be unfollowed, erased, blocked or even reported as spam by the “trigger happy” dumbers. This, I took from a tweet. Why I say “dumbers”, when Twitter is a place for everybody, is because someone who follows 2000 guys or accounts or profiles, and is followed by 50 back and affirm that he “reported another 20 accounts as spammers”, being very vulgar in doing this, is really a dumb. Also, they can’t express themselves in 140 characters, they need more…
I was very disappointed when a “great” person affirmed that is good to separate what’s “personal” from what’s “networking” and if you are followed by someone, be it your mother herself, you’re not compelled to follow back. This is vermin, my friends. For a “great” marketeer and specialist in social media (I’m not saying anything about Dan Zarrella here, he’s a scientist in social media, not a mere specialist like the one I shall not name and he’s not even related to the subject) to say such a thing regarding Twitter, shows a heavy amount of disrespect for the people who pay him. Shows that you’re not even interested in what they have to say. You’re Rainbow F-ing Randolph for God’s sake, they want you, they have to pay you, those f. bees. He continued with something like: “and if you decide to unfollow the bunch of them, do it without explanations, otherwise you’ll regret it”. This guy is a role model for a great number of so called professional bloggers to be. I despised him and them with him. Because on Twitter it’s easier to follow someone to see what he has to say, than to go to their profiles to see that, it’s a lot of time consuming, time which the great specialists here really don’t have, how’s that to eat shit all day, blogging at the same time, and being a good husband and father, or a good wife and mother, when do you find the time to check tweets? This is logical bullshitting.
You’ll find more on my future book. This was not an excerpt, this was a fact, the book will treat this subject much objectively, here is not even a draft. In the book maybe I shall present such a guy, as my role model, and licking here and kissing there, I’ll sell a truckload per minute… 🙂 Just joking, in the book, will be no names, no statistics, except my own. Just observations under a disclaimer. I’m sure it will change your vision on Twitter, 🙂 and I’m not joking.
[January 2013 Update: I changed my mind of writing a book just on Twitter. It’ll be something more complex or nothing on Social Media at all]
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