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Re: http://www.freetraffictip.com/article-plus-video-how-will-oprahs-audience-affect-twitter.php

F. Andy Seidl — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:13:43 -0000

Tinu, I think your assessment is excellent. Twitter is a new application platform. And its hard (impossible, really) to accurately predict what smart people will do with a platform. How Twitter is being used today is different than it was 18 months (the Moore doubling period) ago and than it will be in another 18 months.

I know some people may think I'm crazy, but I believe Twitter deserves its place in the list that includes the web, cell phones, telephone, radio, telegraph, postal service, etc. These are all technologies that changed the communication playing field, literally. Each of these changed the rules for who could communicate with whom and at what velocity. Each of these literally changed the world.

Having Oprah on board is newsworthy, but its hardly significant in the big scheme. Twitter was already a game changer. I sensed this back in January in my post Why I Use Twitter.

Re: http://www.freetraffictip.com/tool-time-friday-twittytunes.php

F. Andy Seidl — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:14:23 -0000

This is one of those tools that most people don't need. For the most part, I find the "what I'm listening to" tweets to be noise which I routinely filter out using TweetDeck filters.

Re: Twitter New Follow Features

F. Andy Seidl — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:58:52 -0000

The new followers page is definitely a step in the right direction, but it has a ways to go. Some immediate issues come to mind:

1) There is not enough detail (in most cases) to make a follow/no-follow/block/spam decision. I'd like to be able to get more details about the user w/o visiting their profile page.

2) There should be a "block & report as spam" button.

3) There is still a "referral spam" incentive for spammer to follow everyone under the sun. IMO followers should not now up in the followers page publicly by default (or at least there should be an option for this). I don't want dozens of porn sites, gambling sites, get-a-million-follwers-a-day sites, etc. linked to from my followers page but with the current toolset, it is tedious to keep them off.

Re: Fun video on what is Twitter

F. Andy Seidl — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:45:33 -0000

An now, as it turns out, you're nobody if you're not on twitter (at least according to the song: http://tinyurl.com/6dvzef ;-)

Re: Google Chrome Now Live

F. Andy Seidl — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:12:00 -0000

Chrome is disruptive technology.

The interesting questions to me are not if Chrome (beta) is ready for prime time (it is not) or which established browser will suffer more (they all will.) What I find more interesting is that it appears to have all the trappings of a disruptive technology hiding in plain sight.

I wrote more about this idea here:

Google Chrome: Disruptive Technology
http://faseidl.com/public/blog/212172

Re: Finding Photos On the Internet

F. Andy Seidl — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:11:47 -0000

Here's another good source for free web/blog photos and other content:
http://gimmefreecontent.com/

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Re: Internet marketing experiment update!

F. Andy Seidl — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:01:41 -0000

Jim, I completely agree with you. My company has been building commercial blogsites for years. We use do-follow links 99.9% of the time.

Google (and other) engines are in the business of finding (and recommending) quality content on a given subject matter and they change their heuristics all the time (more than once per day, on average.) Anyone that believes they know a magic trick (like follow vs. no follow) for influencing Google is mistaken.

Our philosophy has always been: create quality, on-message content and let the search engines do their job. The search engines will continue to adapt and get better at what they do.

Any attempt to develop content *for* search engines is misguided because the search engines change so quickly. But what does not (and will not) change is that search engines are looking for quality, on-message content.

@faseidl

Re: FollowFriday Followup

F. Andy Seidl — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:39:58 -0000

Kirsten, for a while I too have been campaigning in my corner of the twitterverse to fix Follow Friday:
http://faseidl.com/public/item/231723

And I just ran across another good take on this in Andrew Mueller's blog:
http://bit.ly/3Ojqz

It is pretty clear, however, that folks simply like the cram-as-many-names-into-140-as-possible approach. I'm beginning to think that #followfriday will really attain "quality guardrail" until we think of a way to make valuable to the tweeter to "do it right".

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Re: Psychological Profiling Via Twitter

F. Andy Seidl — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:36:00 -0000

Interesting. But speaking from Ann Arbor, I can say that DARPA is missing the boat (sub?) on this. With a charismatic (and shrewdly sociopathic) leader, this could be the seed of a new religion. Twientology, perhaps. ;-)

Re: What's Twitter For?

F. Andy Seidl — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:06:50 -0000

And now, as it turns out, you're nobody if you're not on twitter (at least according to the song: http://tinyurl.com/6dvzef ;-)