Twitter C/D

My Twitter account was set up partly for professional purposes, in that I and some of my co-workers were encouraged to be active on Twitter, I identify my occupation in my bio, I sometimes (but by no means exclusively) tweet about work stuff, etc. So we have a little committee at work that meets semi-regularly to discuss strategies for social media, and early on we realized that the best way to gain Twitter followers was just to follow a ton of people. While I did want to gain followers, I didn't care *so much* about it that I was willing to indiscriminately follow a bunch of random people. (I figured it would just clog up my feed.) But my coworkers who did so -- those who started following 1,000+ right away -- managed to pick up at least a few hundred followers fairly quickly.

if someone follows me who has thousands of followers and follows ~the same amount of people i just assume they some bullshit spammy business dude

otm

there are get followers now omg type services that can make you look heaps popular (e.g. our new prime minister's twitter account gained like 60,000 followers overnight)

fucking cannot believe i just said that

anyway

you can buy 10k followers for $60! http://ipmtech.com

holy shit

http://i.imgur.com/wq6lAZ5.jpg

"spies of sorts"

I am shocked - SHOCKED, I SAY - to learn that Twitter has never turned a profit. $1 billion IPO cash-in here we come wheeeee

more like social peedia

hey

They changed the TL again. I don't mind the auto-showing of pictures, but the darker 'reply retweet etc' buttons make it very messy to look at.

app or web?

stock symbol squatting? +1000% profit
https://www.google.com/finance?q=OTCMKTS:TWTRQ

nothing's changed for me. autoshowing of pictures would suck pretty hard

I meent web, Markers. On mobile I use tweetbot (which didn't implement those annoying blue lines tg)

And then there's this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-04/twitter-may-be-forced-to-extend-character-limit/4999514

lol analysts

Documents filed with US Securities and Exchange Commission show Twitter had 218 million active users as of June 30, and lost nearly $US80 million on nearly $US317 million in revenue in 2012.

i don't understand money but doesn't this just mean they were 237 million in the black?

I think it means they had close to $400 million dollars in expenses

^

oh wow

#AddaWordRuinaMovie

ffs

Regarding the title of this thread, I conclude that Twitter is a resounding Dud.

And about buying Twitter followers, I’m not planning on doing so but, I must say, all this phony outrage I constantly see on the internet about buying Twitter followers would be amusing if not so sickening. Twitter was designed to be superficial, and buying Twitter followers fits into such a superficial paradigm perfectly. Buying Twitter followers is a perfect fit for the essence of Twitter. Anyone who thinks that Twitter is meant to enable you to ‘cultivate’ worthwhile and lasting ‘relationships’ in 140 characters or less, probably has something very wrong with them. Relationships (with some psychological depth to them) are not ‘cultivated’ by engaging in deep mollification that’s limited to 140 characters. It would not surprise me one bit if the ‘head honchos’ at Twitter were the ones paying for all these ‘don’t buy Twitter followers’ articles to be published and prominently displayed on the internet. Big business/corporations don’t have to pay for followers; all they have to do is intimidate their employees (with not-so-subtle threats of unemployment) if the employees don’t follow whomever the business wants them to on Twitter. Twitter deems such immoral intimidation and abuse of employees as ‘ethical social marketing’, but when the ‘little guy’ tries to purchase some advertising/Twitter followers/PR at reasonable prices for posting on Twitter, the practice suddenly becomes ‘gaming the system’. And keep in mind: Sometimes the ‘little guy’ is a former (intimidated and abused) employee of one of these corporations, trying to strike out on his or her own. Yup, I’m pretty sure Twitter is paying for the advertising (in the guise of fake tech/news articles) condemning the little guy for buying (OMG! In a capitalist society no less!) Twitter followers.

For anyone taking issue with my description of communication on Twitter as being ‘blather’, I hereby direct you to this article, which pretty much supports this description: http://www.pearanalytics.com/blog/2009/twitter-study-reveals-interesting-results-40-percent-pointless-babble/. And here’s a newer article, from last year: http://www.fortytwotimes.com/739/study-finds-two-thirds-of-tweets-useless-per-twitter-users/.

(And no, I don't work for any of these companies where you can buy Twitter followers.)

It's just communication - if you're not enjoying it then block / unfollow / choose better whose blather to read. I like it because it's inessential blather. It's a good place to stick dull/unimportant background stuff with friends and suchlike. Start again with a new account or something. Approach in a different way.

i.preferred.banaka

RT

I wish to thank all of those who have followed me on Twitter. I also wish to thank all of those who have offered helpful advice to me regarding Twitter. I guess time will tell how this ‘Twitter thing’ works out.

keep us posted

prediction: it works out BIGTIME

if you could repost your tweets here that'd help me to know when to go on to twitter

Spiritual Travel followed you

i hate myself

Utterly otm

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-29-stages-of-a-twitterstorm

There's so much unintentional comedy arising from that it's astonishing.

PriceHound character is A+++ as well. So much pathos.

Extra points for Fergus McContrary and Julian Abercrombie.

they set up actual accounts for both the pricehounds too

looking at them there is literally about 20 minutes before it drowns in a media twee mudslide so live in the moment imo

It's actually quite difficult to work out who is and isn't taking it seriously.

The original post is perfect, the response rapidly annoying. Plus ca change.

oh my god all those accounts have been created and people are interacting them, this meta wormhole is too much

wait that didnt actually happen, right?

No, it's all made up but some people seem to miss this key point!

hahaha this whole thing is beautiful

ban @pricehound

@twittermod is still untaken afaict lag∞n, you could some some good work there imo

This is amazing. Dying at William Price-Hound's plaintive "leave me alone" msgs.

^^^

iirc your twitter handle can't have 'twitter' in it?

(I appreciate Nick wasn't being 100% earnest in his suggestion btw)