Comments on: Bragging Tweets With TweetMeme http://blog.ericlamb.net/2009/06/bragging-tweets-with-tweetmeme/ Thoughts on programming, people and life Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:01:37 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: eldris http://blog.ericlamb.net/2009/06/bragging-tweets-with-tweetmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-1046 eldris Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:36:11 +0000 http://blog.ericlamb.net/?p=1974#comment-1046 I guess it's all just about popularity and feeling better about themselves. Ashton Kutcher and CNN actually had a race to 1 million followers, which was "all the rage" at the time, for twitter worshipers anyway. They even had prizes: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/kutchercnn-twitter-fight-day-3-ea-ups-the-ante/ I guess it’s all just about popularity and feeling better about themselves. Ashton Kutcher and CNN actually had a race to 1 million followers, which was “all the rage” at the time, for twitter worshipers anyway. They even had prizes: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/15/kutchercnn-twitter-fight-day-3-ea-ups-the-ante/

]]> By: Eric Lamb http://blog.ericlamb.net/2009/06/bragging-tweets-with-tweetmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-1043 Eric Lamb Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:43:39 +0000 http://blog.ericlamb.net/?p=1974#comment-1043 Yeah; I had to explain that TweetMeme was throwing errors and not my site when I did Dark Void. My boss was having a hard time with the idea that a company who's product is <em>code</em> could write crappy code... I like most of the social media sites though; Digg is cool. Reddit is pretty good. It's just the social networking stuff that irritates me; specifically the people collecting. I just don't understand collecting followers (Twitter) and friends (MySpace & Facebook). Why do people do it? What is the appeal? Are there really people who are actually impressed by this? Like; "Oh wow! You have a million followers! Well, I'm impressed." Yeah; I had to explain that TweetMeme was throwing errors and not my site when I did Dark Void. My boss was having a hard time with the idea that a company who’s product is code could write crappy code…

I like most of the social media sites though; Digg is cool. Reddit is pretty good. It’s just the social networking stuff that irritates me; specifically the people collecting.

I just don’t understand collecting followers (Twitter) and friends (MySpace & Facebook). Why do people do it? What is the appeal? Are there really people who are actually impressed by this? Like; “Oh wow! You have a million followers! Well, I’m impressed.”

]]> By: eldris http://blog.ericlamb.net/2009/06/bragging-tweets-with-tweetmeme/comment-page-1/#comment-1036 eldris Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:28:35 +0000 http://blog.ericlamb.net/?p=1974#comment-1036 The tweetmeme plugin is flawed, in that it does not pass xhtml validation. Luckilly you can manually put it into your theme. I'm planning to put it in my wordpress theme (which is nearly done, I may have some new posts by the time I comment here again, I hope :D) Tweetmeme is a wonderful tool though. I've seen it popping up on an increasing number of blogs. As much as I hate to admit it, social media sites work for getting words out. I got drawn into using digg yesterday, because there are lots of interesting articles there. You mention random followers. I get that a lot. People either find random people to follow or use tools to do it for them in the hope of getting lots of followers in return. Unfortunately, it works. People seem very eager to follow people back on twitter even if they'll never read their tweets. The tweetmeme plugin is flawed, in that it does not pass xhtml validation. Luckilly you can manually put it into your theme. I’m planning to put it in my wordpress theme (which is nearly done, I may have some new posts by the time I comment here again, I hope :D )

Tweetmeme is a wonderful tool though. I’ve seen it popping up on an increasing number of blogs. As much as I hate to admit it, social media sites work for getting words out. I got drawn into using digg yesterday, because there are lots of interesting articles there.

You mention random followers. I get that a lot. People either find random people to follow or use tools to do it for them in the hope of getting lots of followers in return. Unfortunately, it works. People seem very eager to follow people back on twitter even if they’ll never read their tweets.

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