Comments on: IS TWITTER THE NEXT SECOND LIFE? http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/ JD's World Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:55:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Harvey http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-66954 Harvey Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:23:45 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-66954 2ndly the whole premiss of twitter is Following. & You follow People. Not Businesses!, if Companies such as delta want to get More activity circulating on there Accounts. they should plug all of their stewardess into the one account, & then get them to update about quirky situations or celebrity passangers.~ i give Game Away but then Again I'm FREE!!!. 2ndly the whole premiss of twitter is Following. & You follow People. Not Businesses!, if Companies such as delta want to get More activity circulating on there Accounts. they should plug all of their stewardess into the one account, & then get them to update about quirky situations or celebrity passangers.~ i give Game Away but then Again I’m FREE!!!.

]]> By: Harvey http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-66953 Harvey Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:18:10 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-66953 One thing I Kno, 7 I don't have a Twitter account.! Is that Article couldn't have made it On there & i did say Article. One thing I Kno, 7 I don’t have a Twitter account.! Is that Article couldn’t have made it On there & i did say Article.

]]> By: CatAnnBur http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-37296 CatAnnBur Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:14:43 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-37296 JD is correct. You can't be lazy when you are trying to do business through your twitter account. JD is correct. You can’t be lazy when you are trying to do business through your twitter account.

]]> By: J0anna http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-37153 J0anna Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:50:03 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-37153 The way they talk about Second Life as a ghost town and Twitter as inactive just goes to show how little they actually know about social media! The way they talk about Second Life as a ghost town and Twitter as inactive just goes to show how little they actually know about social media!

]]> By: henrooo http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-37088 henrooo Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:41:27 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-37088 Everyone has made very interesting points here. One theme that stands out from the comments here is what a lot of people and businesses are beginning to understand; What counts is having genuine connections with your 'followers'. People are now (and have been for a while now) buying twitter followers on ebay. It just seems like gathering more people to spam. This is clearly a misuse of the medium of social networking. I’m seeing too many examples of people using their 'follower' number as a scoreboard or dashboard. All to often the mention of Twitter is followed by this statement, "how many followers do you have, or he/she had x number of followers". The main focus has been how many followers I have. Which as stated in the above article, is a waste of an opportunity to engage with those following you. http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/31/twitter-followers-ebay-penny/ "The goal shouldn't be to have a lot of people to yell at, the goal probably should be to have a lot of people who choose to listen. Don't need a bullhorn for that." (Seth Godin) Everyone has made very interesting points here. One theme that stands out from the comments here is what a lot of people and businesses are beginning to understand; What counts is having genuine connections with your ‘followers’.

People are now (and have been for a while now) buying twitter followers on ebay. It just seems like gathering more people to spam. This is clearly a misuse of the medium of social networking. I’m seeing too many examples of people using their ‘follower’ number as a scoreboard or dashboard. All to often the mention of Twitter is followed by this statement, “how many followers do you have, or he/she had x number of followers”. The main focus has been how many followers I have. Which as stated in the above article, is a waste of an opportunity to engage with those following you.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/31/twitter-followers-ebay-penny/

“The goal shouldn’t be to have a lot of people to yell at, the goal probably should be to have a lot of people who choose to listen. Don’t need a bullhorn for that.” (Seth Godin)

]]> By: The Word Famous Danny Boy "TQ" http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-37083 The Word Famous Danny Boy "TQ" Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:45:57 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-37083 Ok so Twitter still interests me, and to be honest a lot of these executives that get paid to market and promote follow me. I find that funny and I pay money to intern at these labels. Wink Wink I just want to know what's going down when it happens. Twitter is like the new international phone call if you will. But I did go back to facebook just to be different and to have a little hide out 4 my true friends. Just like twitter came out Im sure a new one will drop and the executives will follow us there too. We just want interesting content that is all. I don't want to follow you if you are just posting stuff... Let me into the life of your brand a little bit. That is what is cool about twitter. We can be FRIENDS with people all over the world with an @. Some people don't like it but it is a sign of humbleness and everyone that I am friends with has created a new relevance with me. Soo.... You do your marketing analysis on that and put that in Brandweek. GoodNight! -D.MaL Ok so Twitter still interests me, and to be honest a lot of these executives that get paid to market and promote follow me. I find that funny and I pay money to intern at these labels. Wink Wink I just want to know what’s going down when it happens. Twitter is like the new international phone call if you will. But I did go back to facebook just to be different and to have a little hide out 4 my true friends. Just like twitter came out Im sure a new one will drop and the executives will follow us there too. We just want interesting content that is all. I don’t want to follow you if you are just posting stuff… Let me into the life of your brand a little bit. That is what is cool about twitter. We can be FRIENDS with people all over the world with an @. Some people don’t like it but it is a sign of humbleness and everyone that I am friends with has created a new relevance with me. Soo…. You do your marketing analysis on that and put that in Brandweek. GoodNight!

-D.MaL

]]> By: Double R http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-37075 Double R Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:36:35 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-37075 Twitter has increased people's connections to celebrities. I agree with that statement made by @Joe310. I never saw that Twitter could be a successful marketing tool UNLESS there was real interaction with the person to the consumer. Trey Songz and JD are perfect examples of how to increase a fan base by REAL interactions. You have to gain the trust of the consumer to even purchase the product. Think of any line of technology, clothing, cars...you name it. You buy specific lines because you trust that what you are buying is quality and it will make you look good or feel good. Using bots on Twitter makes a business seem like its trying to con you into a product. Certain businesses can't use Twitter though. Big businesses shouldn't copycat marketing methods..shit gets old. Twitter has increased people’s connections to celebrities. I agree with that statement made by @Joe310. I never saw that Twitter could be a successful marketing tool UNLESS there was real interaction with the person to the consumer. Trey Songz and JD are perfect examples of how to increase a fan base by REAL interactions. You have to gain the trust of the consumer to even purchase the product. Think of any line of technology, clothing, cars…you name it. You buy specific lines because you trust that what you are buying is quality and it will make you look good or feel good. Using bots on Twitter makes a business seem like its trying to con you into a product. Certain businesses can’t use Twitter though. Big businesses shouldn’t copycat marketing methods..shit gets old.

]]> By: Yas http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-37074 Yas Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:20:00 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-37074 It's a technology phase. Just like every other social networking application online. They all have their "use by" dates. The further in time we go, the more we will see the decline in many applications and electrical products that were once "popular". Twitter is a FAD! It’s a technology phase. Just like every other social networking application online. They all have their “use by” dates. The further in time we go, the more we will see the decline in many applications and electrical products that were once “popular”.

Twitter is a FAD!

]]> By: Wenzel Dashington http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-37073 Wenzel Dashington Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:01:50 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-37073 I hope not....cuz if it is, I'm off that! Them 2nd life muthafuckas are crazy as hell... I hope not….cuz if it is, I’m off that! Them 2nd life muthafuckas are crazy as hell…

]]> By: Joe310 http://global14.com/is-twitter-the-next-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-37067 Joe310 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:23:58 +0000 http://www.global14.com/?p=7419#comment-37067 I agree with JD that you need fresh content to thrive on Twitter, BUT corporations arent doing well on Twitter because Twitter is a celebrity-following culture. This is the first time, more so than even MySpace, that the average person can connect to celebrities. First thing people do when they join Twitter is to follow their favorite celebrity. That only lasts so long because there is only so many times you can stand Diddy's QOTD or BowWow uploading pictures of himself. Swizzbeats has a good mix of content. I cant seem to be in Vegas the same weekend JD is spinning at Prive (but ppl here in LA say nothing compares to a JD party!) When creating my clothing company (http://www.social-clothing.com) everyone said you have to have a twitter account. I did anyways but I have been telling my hardcore Twitter friends that Twitter is on its way out BECAUSE there is no REAL way to CONNECT with people (ie: like how well fB suggests people you might know, connecting with your email account etc).... like MySpace. I find out months later that I have friends on Twitter. The Twitter "stategy" to get new friends is to follow someone first, and reply to them hoping they will eventually follow you. So you have people following twice as many people as following them. This in turn leads to information overload. I follow less than 100 people and it's already overload... tweets get lost in the shuffle. I can't imagine anyone can really pay attention to their 500+ (example) followers. At least the MySpace stategy to get new friends was to post on people's wall's and photos. New people would see what you wrote and befriend you. It created a superficial culture of following chicks with hot pictures, but you can build a network nonetheless. I believe that Facebook has been long term potential because they always take the best of other website TRENDS. Once fB "copied" Twitter with their "Live updates", I knew fB just trumped Twitter's A.D.D. style of information updating. Done. Video uploading like YouTube, done. Flickr style picture uploading, done. Im not saying facebook is the end all. The only real thing holding fB back is the culture to only add people you really know, whereas Twitter and MySpace culture was to add anyone. I agree with JD that you need fresh content to thrive on Twitter, BUT corporations arent doing well on Twitter because Twitter is a celebrity-following culture. This is the first time, more so than even MySpace, that the average person can connect to celebrities. First thing people do when they join Twitter is to follow their favorite celebrity. That only lasts so long because there is only so many times you can stand Diddy’s QOTD or BowWow uploading pictures of himself. Swizzbeats has a good mix of content. I cant seem to be in Vegas the same weekend JD is spinning at Prive (but ppl here in LA say nothing compares to a JD party!)

When creating my clothing company (http://www.social-clothing.com) everyone said you have to have a twitter account. I did anyways but I have been telling my hardcore Twitter friends that Twitter is on its way out BECAUSE there is no REAL way to CONNECT with people (ie: like how well fB suggests people you might know, connecting with your email account etc)…. like MySpace. I find out months later that I have friends on Twitter. The Twitter “stategy” to get new friends is to follow someone first, and reply to them hoping they will eventually follow you. So you have people following twice as many people as following them. This in turn leads to information overload. I follow less than 100 people and it’s already overload… tweets get lost in the shuffle. I can’t imagine anyone can really pay attention to their 500+ (example) followers. At least the MySpace stategy to get new friends was to post on people’s wall’s and photos. New people would see what you wrote and befriend you. It created a superficial culture of following chicks with hot pictures, but you can build a network nonetheless. I believe that Facebook has been long term potential because they always take the best of other website TRENDS. Once fB “copied” Twitter with their “Live updates”, I knew fB just trumped Twitter’s A.D.D. style of information updating. Done. Video uploading like YouTube, done. Flickr style picture uploading, done. Im not saying facebook is the end all. The only real thing holding fB back is the culture to only add people you really know, whereas Twitter and MySpace culture was to add anyone.

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