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Response To My Opinion On Coloring Your Twitter Avatar

December 15, 2009
argument

Two weeks ago I wrote a little opinion piece about changing the color of your Twitter avatar to show support for a cause.  My wife and I don’t agree on everything, and when I spout off with something like this I try to keep her eyes from seeing this blog for a little while.  For [...]

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Follow Friday: How To Recommend People And Make Yourself Look Good

December 11, 2009
follow friday

Do you know what day it is?  It’s Follow Friday! People are going to be handing out recommendations to their followers, giving them advice on who they should follow.  Bundles of names will clog up Twitter timelines while tributes are passed around like Valentine’s Day cards.  Everyone is going to have a great time and [...]

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How I Failed With Twitter

December 4, 2009
connection

I don’t know if you noticed this or not, but yesterday I flipped my Twitter account on its ear.  I changed my username, started a new account under my old name (@robmcguire), and then announced on my old account where people could find me if they wanted to reconnect.  This wasn’t an accident; I chose [...]

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Coloring Your Avatar Is An Empty Gesture

December 1, 2009
yellow ribbon

I am not going to change my avatar color, nor am I going to change the color of my tweets for your worthy cause.  I didn’t change my avatar to green to show my support for democracy in Iran, and I’m not going to change my avatar to red to show my support for World [...]

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Does This Tweet Make My Butt Look Fat?

October 25, 2009
fat butt

How self-conscious are you when you’re putting out updates on Twitter? Are you worried what others may think or that you if you say something that others don’t like you’ll lose followers? The good news is that you’re not alone in feeling this way. The bad news is there’s nothing you can do about it. [...]

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The Mass Unfollowing On Twitter Has Begun

September 21, 2009
twitter unfollow

Today I started to shrink the list of people I”m following. I have been following nearly 17,000 people and in all honesty, it’s just way too much. Everyone”s tweets get lost in a sea of updates unless I happen to have them separated into a column in Tweetdeck. Frankly, I can’t keep up. If I [...]

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