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2 months ago
in 60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Are they asking who comes back? I joined Twitter in July 2007, walked away for a few months, came back in September, posted sporadically, and really got connected in early 2008. Now I'm here to stay.
I wonder how many of the 60% who don't return the next month DO come back a few months later... vs how many never come back.
I wonder how many of the 60% who don't return the next month DO come back a few months later... vs how many never come back.
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pmaxwell
I did almost the exact same thing. Although, back in 2007 the Twitter buzz wasn't all over the place like it is today.
4 months ago
in Twitter and me on Jim's Marketing Blog
Jim - I understand your desire to reset the number YOU follow. But I think it's terribly sad that you also reset the number who were following you. This wasn't their mistake.
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Marketing Specialist - Jim Con
Vicki,
It would have been extremely arrogant and totally unfair of me, to delete everyone I followed BUT keep THEIR follows. This way, I am slowly being re-followed by all the people who originally followed and spoke with me. I am now able to deliberately develop a high quality, smaller twitter network. Sadly Vicki, the reason there's still thousands who have not found me is that they are the ones, who never read my blog.
Otherwise, they would have known I was back a week ago, when it was announced. That post, announcing my return, got over 20,000 hits last week!
It would have been extremely arrogant and totally unfair of me, to delete everyone I followed BUT keep THEIR follows. This way, I am slowly being re-followed by all the people who originally followed and spoke with me. I am now able to deliberately develop a high quality, smaller twitter network. Sadly Vicki, the reason there's still thousands who have not found me is that they are the ones, who never read my blog.
Otherwise, they would have known I was back a week ago, when it was announced. That post, announcing my return, got over 20,000 hits last week!
7 months ago
in Loyalty on Nordquist Blog
I worked for a 40 person company that became an 80 person company and "lost their way" in terms of caring about the employees.
I worked for a 150 person company that became a 250 person company and then summarily fired 40 of us with no reason because they were negotiating a merger.
I worked for a 400 person company that really cared and currently work for a 14000 person company that is trying to balance caring (they do) with te very real need to do a reduction in force and clamp down on projects that aren't going anywhere.
In all of these cases, my loyalty was to my co-workers and my job. The Company (in the person of its execs) may try to do well by employees but, fundamentally, a corporation isn't human and it will ultimately do whatever it needs to do to stay afloat and please the VCs and the stockholders.
Stay true to your own work, do well by your co-workers, and keep your eyes open.
I worked for a 150 person company that became a 250 person company and then summarily fired 40 of us with no reason because they were negotiating a merger.
I worked for a 400 person company that really cared and currently work for a 14000 person company that is trying to balance caring (they do) with te very real need to do a reduction in force and clamp down on projects that aren't going anywhere.
In all of these cases, my loyalty was to my co-workers and my job. The Company (in the person of its execs) may try to do well by employees but, fundamentally, a corporation isn't human and it will ultimately do whatever it needs to do to stay afloat and please the VCs and the stockholders.
Stay true to your own work, do well by your co-workers, and keep your eyes open.
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Brett Nordquist
@Vicki -
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. I agree with your suggestion of doing well by my coworkers and keeping my eyes open. That's great advice.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. I agree with your suggestion of doing well by my coworkers and keeping my eyes open. That's great advice.
7 months ago
in Seth Godin Thinks Twitter is Worthless on Chuck Westbrook's Blog
I guess I don't follow the same people you do Chuck. I can't imagine that I have "misunderstood" any of the tweets I've read in the past year.
True, occasionally, I don't get one. Usually that's because I'm missing context (e.g. I don't get tweet replies to people I don't follow.)
As a technical writer by profession, I've more often found that shorter is more preferable to a lot of people. The longer something is, the more my readers complain that they don't have time to read it. And when they don't finish, they miss a lot.
I don't think the length, per se, is really the issue. I think it's what's being said. To pull out an old chestnut (and add to it) - does the medium fit the message? And do the medium and message fit the audience?
True, occasionally, I don't get one. Usually that's because I'm missing context (e.g. I don't get tweet replies to people I don't follow.)
As a technical writer by profession, I've more often found that shorter is more preferable to a lot of people. The longer something is, the more my readers complain that they don't have time to read it. And when they don't finish, they miss a lot.
I don't think the length, per se, is really the issue. I think it's what's being said. To pull out an old chestnut (and add to it) - does the medium fit the message? And do the medium and message fit the audience?
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Chuck W.
On second thought, I may agree with you more than with what I wrote originally. I'm okay with that.
Expressing a complicated idea in too few words is where misunderstanding can enter in. Tweets, though, tend to be very simple ideas, so it is generally not an issue.
In any case, it depends on the reader making it all the way through the text. A short message gives up detail in exchange for greater odds of the person reading it all. Longer text does the opposite.
Again, though, I think this applies mostly to complexity.
Expressing a complicated idea in too few words is where misunderstanding can enter in. Tweets, though, tend to be very simple ideas, so it is generally not an issue.
In any case, it depends on the reader making it all the way through the text. A short message gives up detail in exchange for greater odds of the person reading it all. Longer text does the opposite.
Again, though, I think this applies mostly to complexity.
8 months ago
in Magpie Tries To Make Twitter An Ad Network, Fails on The Future of Ads
karllong - magpie is *not* an attempt to monetize Twitter. It's an attempt to monetize *magpie* with a few euros for a handful of individuals and an increase in spam for the rest of us.
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karllong
True, but it is the first advertising model that i've seen and that is why I think it's interesting. BTW just calling it spam is making a pretty broad generalization which makes debate difficult :-)
