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• 1. Dave Fleet  |  February 9th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

  Hi Amanda,

  Thanks for the kind words. As for the Twitter Influence Calculator – I’m very cynical about tools like this. It seems that it’s very much a numbers game. I’d be more interested in something that looks at the ratio of followers to retweets or something similar, which would mean ‘influence’ wouldn’t just come down to the number of followers you have.

  Cheers,

  Dave

• 2. Julie Poplawski  |  March 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 pm

  I agree that is creepy! just follow who you like offer back something likable – Social networking requires SOME social sensitivity!

• 3. Michael Knight  |  March 23rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm

  I use a similar feature in Microsoft Outlook where I set a delay of 2 minutes before sending, so I can either recall the mail or delete it. Makes sense as we have always sent that “oh, no” email that we wished we hadn’t.

  I only use gmail on the move if I have no cell or laptop, so I doubt I would use it much.

  5 seconds is not a long time, what if you clicked send, then have a sneezing spaz attack? Or your browser hangs or you lose connection just as the email is sent… Would be too late to recall it.

  I’ve seen this talked about all over the web, and with using this feature for years in outlook, its not really new to me, but I’m also sceptical about the 5 seconds.

  My 2 cents worth.

  Mike

• 4. acmaurer  |  March 24th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

  Hi Michael –
  Thanks for sharing. If you’re someone who thinks he may need some more time, this option – and the two-minute window – sounds ideal.
  Does anyone else use this option?

• 5. acmaurer  |  March 24th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

  Hi Julie –
  You’re right. If people want to be successful in the social media world, they’ll need to grow many QUALITY friendships–and not focus on a quick fix.

  Amanda

• 6. Brian Beehler  |  March 25th, 2009 at 5:56 pm

  Thanks for the information Amanda!

  As you say it is a fantastic site with loads of information to help you guide your way through the twitter world…

• 7. Peter Stolmar  |  March 31st, 2009 at 2:36 am

  I agree with this post and the cited comments, but I think the phrase “social media industry” is ambiguous. “Industry” is simply a generic word for “business type”, and “social media” is a way to say “(lots of) users interacting using technology.”

  I think social media can be called an industry, but from a quick peek around the ‘net I’ve found that people will call just about anything an industry – so this seems like saying “gold is a commodity.”

  Generally, companies are in the “industry” they make the largest portion of revenue from. How do you sell “social media?” I think people make money using social media, but not directly from the sale of social media.

  I would say “Web 2.0″ is the design pattern that enables social media, and an “industry vertical” is a more specific grouping of businesses with a similar target market, essentially (whether one existed before or not). My theory:

  Web 2.0 companies form a new industry vertical within the technology market.

  You can sell “Web 2.0″ – the code, design, etc. whereas selling “social media” suggests (to me, at least) that you have paid accounts – which apparently Twitter is considering. For now I’ll just lump everything into the “technology industry” so I don’t have to change my mind so often. If anyone can find an actual (updated) list of industries in this sense (not manufacturing) please share!

  Do you think the sale of a product or service is required to be considered an industry?

• 8. Captain Jack  |  April 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pm

  I could not use Tweetdeck for it’s not supported on my older computer system. So I went with TweetGrid.com and discovered it is a very powerful twitter app. Second app I use is iTweet.com. Nice little app that has a really cool nesting feature. I think nesting should be a standard feature on all apps. You ever get a tweet from hours ago and don’t know what you said to them last or what they said to you? Nesting really solves that problem. iTweet has many nice built in tools like URL shortener, TwitPic, and Symbols.

  Captain Jack

  ___/)___

• 9. Dann Petty  |  April 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

  Haha this was pretty great! 26 characters or less.

• 10. Mark Essel  |  April 17th, 2009 at 7:44 am

  I also enjoy ychacker news, yahoo buzz, & delicious
  There’s never enough hours in the day for me to keep up with all the fantastic sources of information that I find of interest.

• 11. Rob Frappier  |  May 15th, 2009 at 10:48 am

  I use Digg and Technorati, but my favorite way to find interesting sites is StumbleUpon. I don’t think people understand just how involved you can get in the StumbleUpon community. Since I’ve become a more active user, I’ve been exposed to a number of great sites and have formed some valuable personal and professional relationships.

• 12. whet moser  |  August 31st, 2009 at 11:41 am

  This isn’t an entirely new question – it’s similar to the dilemma faced when tabloids break news (like the John Edwards affair, which everyone tiptoed around until more trusted outlets confirmed it).

  TMZ doesn’t have a perfect record – they jumped the gun on Natasha Richardson, for example, so their sleazy if not necessarily regularly inaccurate coverage isn’t the only thing that makes the MSM nervous.

  Mostly it’s this: TMZ is a fairly new entity, so it’ll take awhile until they build a track record. If they’re almost always accurate, they’ll build credibility to the point where the MSM always trusts them. If they blow too many stories, they’ll fall into the National Enquirer gray area.

  As to how it works, it’s pretty simple: they’re run by a lawyer/journalist (JD, University of Chicago!) whose professional career has focused on the LA celebrity beat, the site obsessively focuses on one beat – they don’t divide their attention or approach at all – and they spend a lot of money to blanket it. If you combine experience, focus, and money, you’ll probably succeed in beating people.

  But keep in mind that’s all they do: they try to break celebrity stories before anyone else. It’s a huge niche, but it’s still a niche. There’s a tradeoff, usually, between doing one thing better than everyone else and doing a lot of things well. Maybe they’ll continue to succeed, but there are dangers to putting all your eggs in one basket, even if you have a really big and popular basket.

  They do have one advantage that “traditional” American journalism doesn’t: they pay for leaks, both pictures and verified tips. Most journalists won’t do that, they do, and that gives them an advantage, right or wrong.

• 13. whet moser  |  August 31st, 2009 at 11:48 am

  “But keep in mind that’s all they do: they try to break celebrity stories before anyone else.”

  Just to expand on that a bit – People, for example, doesn’t break stories as much as its competitors, but it’s a lot more narrative-focused. And people like narratives, explanations, reflections, analysis, jokes, lots of other things that aren’t just breaking news.

  TMZ is increasingly impressive at getting the raw info out there first, but in the grand scheme of a story, it’s only one part.

• 14. Wardell  |  September 12th, 2009 at 10:20 am

  I’d say lucky is the answer, outlets like TMZ are referred to as gossip for a reason. When a media entity constantly relies on shady sources looking to make a quick buck, and publishes what they think they know instead of fact checking they will get lucky every now and then.

• 15. Wardell  |  September 12th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

  Some of my favorite social media tools right now are yoonoo, tweetdeck, and probably shareaholic. I wrote about a few others here: Social Media Toolbox oh yeah I also think Twellow is an awesome twitter directory.

• 16. brad z  |  September 21st, 2009 at 4:34 pm

  Cool — I find myself in more debates than I’d care to count defending the usefulness of twitter. While personally it’s evolved into more of a place to rant and vent for myself, it encompasses such a broad range of uses that calling it “useless” is a weak argument, “pointless” is more arguable though I don’t believe that to be true either.

  As a lifelong Chicagoan, and web developer, it’s been interesting for me to watch traditional media embrace (or not) trends such as twitter, especially the Tribune since its what I grew up on.

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