Category Archives: Twitter

I, channel – Should You Segment Your Twitter Following?

September 10, 2009 – 5:12 pm

Developing a following is a tricky thing. On the one hand, as I said in my lens on the subject, it is important to consider yourself a channel when you’re thinking about Twitter marketing. On the other hand, that sort of thinking inevitably narrows the range and scope of things you might tweet about. You [...]

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Tweetblocker – What’s Your Grade?

August 5, 2009 – 10:20 pm

Read Write Web did a write-up of TweetBlocker, a new service that grades users and allows you to mass-unfollow people who don’t make the grade. Given the nature of the experiment, I thought it would be interesting to see how bad Deranged Penguin’s grade was. As suspected, it wasn’t great:
derangedpenguin: C
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Tweetbucks

August 5, 2009 – 4:37 pm

So it turns out that Linkbucks is seriously skeezy – lots and lots and lots of porn. Not exactly my values. I may stick with the blog over there, but yuck.
Then I saw some chatter about Tweetbucks on my Twitter feed and decided to have a look. They’re pretty cool, and the “Retweet Offers” option [...]

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