What’s Up Wednesdays: Twitter Edition
April 16th, 2008 by Michael Kwan
I’m not entirely sure what has happened in the last month or so, but it seems like Twitter has exploded onto the scene, attracting the attention of not only regular Joe users, but also some of the top bloggers on the ‘net. It’s not like the service is new — Twitter has been around since 2006 — but it has certainly risen in popularity these past couple of weeks. You can even follow me on Twitter. One of the key advantages to following me on Twitter is that you may get some free link love, as evidenced by this post, for example.
Twitter is the hot topic of the day, so let’s see what’s up in the blogosphere (and in the tweet-o-sphere) this week.
Mubin Ahmed was the first person to respond to my tweet asking for Twitter-related blog posts. Mubin is giving away a surprise gift to everyone who follows him on Twitter. I had a brief chat with him on Twitter and it turns out that the free gift is an e-book valued at $25! Not bad for just clicking on the “follow” button.
Darren Barefoot, despite feeling that Twitter is an ego distillery, is sticking around and tweeting with the rest of us. Even so, he’s decided to trim the fat and only follow people who he knows personally. Do you think Darren is missing out by only following a few select people?
Michael Martine of Remarkablogger got a guest post the other day from AJ Vaynerchuk discussing the eight mistakes bloggers make while using Twitter. The official purpose of Twitter might be to proclaim what you are doing at any given moment, but it is actually very effective as a marketing tool too. Many bloggers pay limited attention to this aspect.
AJ Vaynerchuk kept his Twitter-related guest posts going over at Shoemoney’s blog, this time comparing the relative Google rankings for the Twitter and Facebook profiles of notable online personalities. As it turns out, Twitter wins almost every time. Could this be pointing toward the slow and painful death of Facebook?
Super Affiliate Zac Johnson is always on the lookout for new and exciting ways to make money online. Although most people assume that you can’t make any money directly from tweeting, Zac begs to differ. He has discovered the gaming of Twitter. Yes, you can sell Twitter accounts for cold, hard cash.
If you want to be featured in a future edition of What’s Up Wednesdays, it’s probably in your best interest to follow me on Twitter. Heck, you might even learn a thing or two along the way. I wonder how long it will take before my Twitter follower count catches up with the number of RSS subscribers…
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Lol, nice research on finding that picture Mike!
Wow, you really have a ton of followers!
I just join Twitter this week - I never understood it before, but I’m hooked now!
Mubin: I just grabbed it from your Twitter page.
Saman: I’m starting to get a few followers, yeah. I hope to break the century mark by the end of the week.
Twitter is pretty neat. It’s a quick way to see what’s going on around the blogosphere. If your following is large I can see it being a good way to promote posts and such too
I use Twitter but I’m not a big fan.
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I am (as you know) a big Twitterer, and I know that some people have unfollowed me because they think I’m tweeting too much. Funny how it goes, they have re-followed me now. However, I do not follow them back
(not because I have a big ego, but simply because I realize that there is no conversation there).
I *love* Twitter. I would have not caught my typo if you hadn’t tweeted me!