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skin tags — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:42:20 -0000

So, what has changed in social media that is causing this wave of outrage? Is it the introduction of tools similar to Twitter?

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wow quest helper — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:33:48 -0000

Me too I won't abandon for the sake of the new one. Am used to twitter and won't trade any for it.

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mole removal — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 21:20:03 -0000

I got myself a twitter account and I am quite satisfied with it. I do want to know new updates on twitter that I may be able to grab something from it. But I love Facebook nowadays though. I got lots of friends there and I find FB friendly user more than twitter though.

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Goji — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:16:02 -0000

Twitter is a great tool used to grow a fast following.

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Goji — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:10:59 -0000

I took a class recently about social media. Twitter and facebook have a completely different audience and following.

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Future Metals — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:04:49 -0000

Twitter is also like Facebook. People can use them as service for marketing. And it works too. But I think both Twitter and Facebook have different features.

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Get rid of Stretch Marks — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:08:37 -0000

Ya I admit that Twitter grace is galling day by day but you need to fund out the reasons behind that and try to solve out the problems behind that.

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cosmetic dentist — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:42:32 -0000

twitter has grown massively since this post i use it all the time now as do many of my colleagues

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Gregory Heller — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:24:17 -0000

I recently blogged about this as well. Though I have seen many newer services popping up recently, and showing up in my twine feeds, I cannot imaging jumping ship on twitter. It is where everyone I follow (and everyone who follows me) is. And unless there is some mass migration, you won't find me plurking anytime soon.

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sbspalding — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:09:21 -0000

Feel free to drop us a line using the contact form. I'd love to take a look
at it once it's live.

Cheers,

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asktheadmin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:00:46 -0000

Great article! I myself never got into twitter or friend feed. But these services are here to stay and this goes to show you can't treat your users like idiots... @ least not to their faces!

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Greg Hollingsworth — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:18:04 -0000

I will certainly check it out (as I check out damn near everything anyone links to). I was probably a little heavy handed with my pronouncement of Socialthing!'s death, I know it's not dead. I was using it as an example of something that had a lot of hype upon initial release (which it did) and then the trumpeting died off. Perhaps died on the vine wasn't the right phrase.

I will make sure to check in over at socialthing! sometime soon.

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Matt Galigan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:08:54 -0000

Greg, terribly sorry it's taken us so long to comment on this. I'm one of the founders of Socialthing! and I just want to let you know we're far from dead and gone. We've got a good loyal userbase, but most importantly, for the past two months we've been hard at work on our massively revamped version 2.0. It's now almost done, and it will really change the way people think about our service. I hope once it's out, you get a chance to check it out and let us know what you think...we'd really love to hear what you think!

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sbspalding — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:34:50 -0000

No worries mate. You made some really fantastic points. Great article.

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sbspalding — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:33:51 -0000

I think there is something to be said about building an audience for its own sake. Generally, I find that Twitter works "better" for certain things when you have a larger following (as long as your following back, of course).

I've "eavesdropped" on tons of great conversations that I would have completely missed had I strictly friended people that I knew.

I guess it all boils down to motivation.

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How to earn onlin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:12:48 -0000

So, I've been saying this for a long time, but I feel that twitter should sell to someone with lots of servers (google comes to mind). The reason is that users will resent the downtime. So why not take the hundred or two hundred mil and call it a day :D

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Greg Hollingsworth — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:01:47 -0000

I am certainly not trying to build a following for business reasons, and yes, you're right, someone who has an audience should be able to take them a long for the ride.

Unfortunately, with Twitter (and the auto-follow bullshit) there is no real way of knowing just how much your audience is listening. Now, if you're a new media celebrity (e.g. Scoble, Chris Brogan, Leo Laporte, etc...) you could probably take an audience with you, but most of us use twitter for conversation, not explicitly to increase our personal brand.

Sometimes it may be a little of both (and you have at least one more follower know), but even 530 is a paltry number considering the 1 million+ users of Twitter.

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khylek — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:02:13 -0000

That's the comment argument, and you may be right. But with so many other ways to be connected (Facebook, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, etc) I would think that if you had an audience that listened, you'd take most of them with you.

Saying that, I have 165 followers (not 530 like you, or the thousands that others do), and I'm not intending to build an audience strictly for business reasons.

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Greg Hollingsworth — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:54:24 -0000

Very true, Twitter is a service that can be replicated. And actually, TIVO is a replicant (ReplayTV was around first, it just never really caught on).

The issue isn't that no one can do it better (although up to this point no one really has), it's that rebuilding a community from scratch is an arduous process that can take a lot of time. I for one wouldn't want to start over (and I only have about 530 followers).

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Greg Hollingsworth — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:42:23 -0000

I apologize for being a couple days late to the party on responding (thanks for the assist Steve). I just want to say that I think the comments are exactly what I expected.

Even with all the tumult surrounding the issues Twitter has had, no one is really leaving the site. Sure, they may be checking out other services, but what they are finding is that Twitter (even with it's issues) does what it does better than anything else.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in voicing my support for Twitter, which has unlocked several opportunities for me (as well as countless other users I'm sure). My questioning tone may have been interpreted as questioning Twitter, it was not meant to. It was meant to question the animosity that Twitter's recent issues has caused.

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Greg Hollingsworth — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:37:30 -0000

I agree completely, Twitter definitely has legs. I think that @jack and @biz have done a fairly good job of communicating during the recent troubles.

I also agree that Friendfeed is a different beast altogether, and to be honest, I greatly prefer Twitter.

But even just this morning, word is moving around Twitter (when I can get updates through Twhirl) about Plurk (which is useless to me as it won't render it's timeline in Firefox) as a possible alternative.

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Wizeguyztees — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:50:27 -0000

There is almost too many things to try to keep up with in my opinion that you either have to pick your two favorite and run full steem ahead or be very average with all of them. From Twitter, to myspace, to facebook, to stumble, to digg, u have to invite friends with each one and who has time to be that social anyway. I wish I got paid to blog.

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CyndyA — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:28:01 -0000

And what if you didn't have to start over? What if porting the data was a reality?

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khylek — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:58:34 -0000

Twitter isn't a product, it's a service. One that might be before it's time (and that's not necessarily a compliment). If people have a huge amount of followers those followers are going to be portable.

I like Twitter, and I think they're probably doing everything they can. The bottom line is, like say Tivo, it's a service that can be replicated. There's nothing so sensational about Twitter that it can't be overcome by another similar (more reliable) service.

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sbspalding — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:12:03 -0000

My comment is a might cynical, I agree, but what I was trying to point out
is that their scaling and community issues are the result of not expecting
to ever "take off". They hadn't taken their own wild success into account.

More unfortunately for them, they didn't change the gory details (TOS) to
align with the new way their customers were using the product.