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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Twitter is a great social tool which can be used to expand one”s influence to areas that were once out of reach. But what about the flip side of this scenario? What happens when nefarious (yes, it”s a word. I didn”t make it up) information starts spreading about you on Twitter? How would you react [...]