The modern moment: “You have no dignity.” “Um, you’ve never met or spoken to me.”
Someone told me in a Twitter thread last night that I “lack dignity.” The person and I have never met or spoken. Is this modern comms? Continue Reading
Digital noise: How bad is it, really? [Quantification]
6,000 tweets per second. 136,000 new Facebook images per minute. How are we cutting through all this clutter? Continue Reading
Marketers, let’s retire the auto-DM
Been doing more Twitter Chats recently — which are actually kind of cool for meeting like-minded people — and as a result, I pick up followers here and there. I’d say 15-25 percent of the time after I grab a… Continue Reading
Why crowdsource an idea/concept if you don’t care about the responses?
Here’s a little personal story. This was posted on Twitter a few days back: https://twitter.com/letsworkshop/status/593206622291238912 My friend Sarah Pressler recommended me for the gig this guy was offering. I sent this along via Twitter: https://twitter.com/tedbauer2003/status/593393551725105153 I didn’t hear anything for about… Continue Reading
95% of Twitter mentions for Elizabeth Arden are spam, eh?
I’ve written before about small business marketing success stories via Twitter, and I completely understand the potential value of Twitter, but there’s a part of me that wonders why brands devote any true resource to it (other than maybe 20-25 minutes per… Continue Reading
Gary Vaynerchuk annoys me, but he’s dead right about Twitter
I’ve never personally met Gary Vaynerchuk and I probably never will, although he does live in the same city as my parents (“… so you’re saying there’s a chance…”). He seems like maybe he’s a tad on the self-promotional side (regarding… Continue Reading
Let’s stop breathlessly analyzing Twitter’s influence and data, shall we?
You may have heard about this SXSW presentation from Jonah Perretti, the CEO of BuzzFeed (and the brother of the comedienne currently on Brooklyn Nine-Nine) that basically shows Twitter has a lot of influence, but ultimately people take what they… Continue Reading
Remember: social media isn’t a real relationship
F’n woke up this morning at about 3:44am. Normally when I do that, I go get some water, maybe pee, and then go back to sleep. That works 8 times out of 10. This morning was one of two times… Continue Reading