Comments on: Fame and Microfame in a World of Social Networking http://www.socialmarketing20.com/fame-and-microfame-in-a-world-of-social-networking/ Exploring the Business Side of Social Media Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:24:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: susan rice-lincoln http://www.socialmarketing20.com/fame-and-microfame-in-a-world-of-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-199 susan rice-lincoln Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:33:09 +0000 http://www.socialmarketing20.com/?p=276#comment-199 Thanks so much for this post. Blindly scrambling to get as many followers as possible is the latest lemmings to sea trend on the internet. No one seems to stop and ask why they NEED 10,000 followers. Not to mention how impossible (at least on Twitter) it is to really manage, digest and truly converse with that amount of people. I think though this is just one more example where people are grasping at straws; obsessed with tactics and ignoring the fact that tactics serve nothing without a vision. Susan Rice Lincoln http//:www.masterthenewnet.com Thanks so much for this post.
Blindly scrambling to get as many followers as possible is the latest lemmings to sea trend on the internet. No one seems to stop and ask why they NEED 10,000 followers. Not to mention how impossible (at least on Twitter) it is to really manage, digest and truly converse with that amount of people.
I think though this is just one more example where people are grasping at straws; obsessed with tactics and ignoring the fact that tactics serve nothing without a vision. Susan Rice Lincoln http//:www.masterthenewnet.com

]]> By: Marci Diehl http://www.socialmarketing20.com/fame-and-microfame-in-a-world-of-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Marci Diehl Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:44:26 +0000 http://www.socialmarketing20.com/?p=276#comment-192 Excellent post, Jim. As I said to you -- in a Direct Message on Twitter! -- "learning" Twitter is a process, and I think it's an individual process. I'm with you -- I recently started getting a sudden surge of followers on Twitter, and it was exciting: until I checked the profiles of each person (which was time-consuming in itself). Many -- if not most -- of the followers didn't seem to have anything to do with what I do for a living (copywriter/consultant) or the things I might tweet about. Most of them had over 1,000 followers or were following (???) 1,000s. Some had over 20,000 ---- What?! As the new people showed up on my alerts, I stopped feeling positive. What could this possibly have to do with me? Why were they choosing me? I had to conclude that I was caught up in some kind of "twitter net", like fish in the ocean, randomly scooped up. I did follow some people back. But that was after reading their tweets, and looking at their numbers, and what they did. If they looked interesting and sounded like people I'd like, I followed back. I'm on Twitter to connect with sources, to learn, to hear the voices of people all over the globe. I want quality. I'm not there to be a collector or crow about my "numbers." Because really -- what does that have to do with the real world, and real work??? Excellent post, Jim. As I said to you — in a Direct Message on Twitter! — “learning” Twitter is a process, and I think it’s an individual process. I’m with you — I recently started getting a sudden surge of followers on Twitter, and it was exciting: until I checked the profiles of each person (which was time-consuming in itself).

Many — if not most — of the followers didn’t seem to have anything to do with what I do for a living (copywriter/consultant) or the things I might tweet about. Most of them had over 1,000 followers or were following (???) 1,000s.

Some had over 20,000 —- What?!

As the new people showed up on my alerts, I stopped feeling positive. What could this possibly have to do with me? Why were they choosing me?

I had to conclude that I was caught up in some kind of “twitter net”, like fish in the ocean, randomly scooped up.

I did follow some people back. But that was after reading their tweets, and looking at their numbers, and what they did. If they looked interesting and sounded like people I’d like, I followed back.

I’m on Twitter to connect with sources, to learn, to hear the voices of people all over the globe. I want quality.

I’m not there to be a collector or crow about my “numbers.” Because really — what does that have to do with the real world, and real work???

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