Lin Burress

don't... they will delete your account. you are talking about corporations here? or real business? How is it that Hamas and Hezballah have a twitter account and somehow twitter thinks I am more dangerous? What a joke this twitter network really is. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

Hey.. what can I say? I was left speechless. I don't understand how Chris has all this information flowing. ALL THE TIME. - Kyle Lacy

24/7: Chris Brogan's brain: Open all night. - Kyle Lacy

Noah is right. Corporations are not business. This might be better used for the government of China. twitter is not good for small business. - PinkGarden

I completely disagree. I have gotten business from Twitter.. it is about authenticity and creating relationships.. not spamming. - Kyle Lacy

The problem is most small biz owners have yet to learn how to communicate via social media.. they can learn though. - Kyle Lacy

time time time... small biz don't have the time... Chris Brogan mentioned large corporations. your point is moot Kyle - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

and solo act too, Noah. But Kyle, if existing strategies that you are familiar with work for you, then fine. Otherwise, I don't know there's other options but to go out from the comfort zone and learn. - Hendry Lee via twhirl

I see a lot of uses for social media.... but it is not advertising and PR. ....education, entertainment... even employment bonding... but promotion is not best here... unless you can really overburden a scene... and that is very very wrong. as for a mom and pop biz... they simply can't get iJustine and Veronica to gee golly wiz the little guy. I'm an artist... and I have optimism... but artists are small business people... and for the most part... this social media experience has been a fail. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

if anything this experience has hurt my reputation... I would never recommend doing this unless this is what you want to do full time... twitter is unforgiving and libelous. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

that isn't to say that it is bad here. I mention iJustine... who is nice enough to leave my drawings on her facebook profile... however... in the long run promotion here has been a hole in my time. this is an incestuous mono-culture. There is no place for any free thought... or persuasion. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

if anything social media is a very efficient brain washing tool. Resistance is futile... you must support this cause or you are blocked and no one reads your comments. it is frankly a sad interaction... and experiment in mob tyranny. The worst aspect of a niche market. Twitter is going to go down in history as a social experiment that made people very miserable and lashed out at the people who put their time into it. ...it remains to be seen if something better can come along.... - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

somehow I have a feeling that what takes twitter's place will not have the kind of zealous idealism that twitter had. the whole idea of free expression failed when twitter left a hole open for @panopticons. free expression and retweeting no longer were legitimate. they crucified the questioner. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

free will in an infrastructure is not a good archetype. the inherent nature of socializing will test the lines... so now we know we want structure... and once that enters the equation then it is no longer social like life itself. online interaction is inherantly built on training wheels... (those training wheels better not be business promotion) - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

btw... I mention free thought and persuasion... the only reason I'm getting away with saying this is because you probably agree with me. it isn't that twitter isn't for big business, but rather that is inherently a mob tyranny and perhaps big corporations are natural to this ecosystem. Why encourage it? It is not good at all. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

Is it okay to mix business with the personal on Twitter? My fed agency doesn't have a handle on how to use socmed tools, so I've just been exploring them on my own. I view it as 50% devoted to my personal life and 50% devoted to promoting the NEA and the arts/culture in general. Does it discredit the NEA work that under the same handle I twitter about which workout videos I'm currently tackling? Shankman seems to do both, and that's the model I'm following, but curious to hear your thoughts as well. Thanks for the posts--I'm really learning a lot. - Paulette Beete

in-house, ok, but if any business tweets me, i will hate them subconsciously .. or even quite consciously ... now service, in response to a problem, like firefox does, is quite nice. - Gregory Lent

@Paulette- I say yes. In fact, it's required. You have to be human. - Chris Brogan

Paulette twitter is perfect for a government agency. That is why twitter accepts terrorist governments like Hamas but not artists like myself. I would keep your personal maintenance to yourself as a rule of thumb. BTW I just farted. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

@Noah small biz do not have time because they are confused on how to utilize the tool. - Kyle Lacy

Kyle the way to use the tool is through group peer pressure and intimidation. "mom and pop businesses" just don't know who to do that well. so I guess we agree Kyle. If they knew how to intimidate and humiliate any self interested individuals then they wouldn't be small business, they would be the Democratic party. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

haha. touche, Noah, touche. - Kyle Lacy

Thanks for sharing, nice suggestions and ideas. I'm going to tweet this ☺ - Patty

I'm not sure I like being right this time - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

Tremendous post! At the end of the day, there is no question that Twitter optimizes communication-and what company does not want to optimize their communication channels at all levels?! - Harold Cabezas

Chris: Love your ezines & your 50 ways to use twitter article. You might want to check out the twitter article I posted at http://tinyurl.com/5q33h4 - I appreciate you! - http://twitter.com/gfb3 - Girard Frank Bolton, III.

Holy #failwhale! Is that OG (original graphic)?? - Clay Newton

The graphic is from iStockPhoto.com - same as the failwhale. - Andy Murdoch

That Twitter Bag is very Cool! - Lin Burress

The Official Twitter Failure Bag - Nick Dominguez

I want it! - Leo Laporte

I love the Gevil.org T-Shirts! Very nice! ;) - Lin Burress

It was just a matter of time before someone started a Google Hate/Sucks site. It's the in thing once you become successful. http://www.microsuck.com - Microsuck, http://www.walmart-blows.com - Wal-Mart Blows, http://www.verizonpathetic.com - Verizon Pathetic, http://www.amexsux.com - AMEX Sucks, http://www.paypalsucks.com - PayPal Sucks, http://www.homedepotsucks.com - Home Depot Sucks - Shane

It really depends. My normal post schedule is 5 a.m. but posts with high search interest are published as soon as completed. - Lin Burress

Before midnight Pacific. That's mainly because I blog after I get my kids down to sleep. I find I need to reinvigorate the interaction around a post in the morning when I first wake up. - Hutch Carpenter

I usually post around noon PT -- based on this blog http://3.rdrail.net/blog/thurd... - Jennifer Leggio

This should help: http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar... - Shey

Thanx Shey, and everyone else :D - Anthony Farrior

i'm saying what's the point of @ing someone if they can't see it? now we're gettig philosphical. if a twitterer ats a user but the reply screen is broken, did the @ atcually happen? - Baratunde Thurston via twhirl

when they came for the "with friends" tab and API access, I didn't say anything...because I wasn't a user of the with friends API....when they throtled the API ping limit, I didn't say anything because I wasn't a developer...but when they came for the replies tag I called out --- but no one in particular could hear me call to them! [way tasteless joke there, sorry] - Marshall Kirkpatrick

the replies api call still works so desktop clients should be able to view them, however it counts against the already reduced api rate limit. - Alan Le

It's not on the same page as twitter, but if you set up a Summize RSS Feed or just do a regular search there (leave a tab open, it updates), you'll get your @replies. - John Frost

you can use greasemonkey to replace it w/summize: http://friendfeed.com/e/f401f4... - Benedikt Koehler

I don't think my loved ones understand what "online" even means. - Kevin D. White

I think people have a harder time grasping the fact that one can actually work at home, on the Internet. Many people in my life still haven't gotten this through their head ;) - Glen Stansberry via twhirl

Glen: I am at home getting more work done here than at the office - Susan Beebe

My wife understands, but none of the rest of my family would - they probably don't have highspeed internet.. - Tony via Alert Thingy

Most of my friends and family get it, but there is a significant percentage of them who think "working in technology" means "Mark can fix my computer." - Mark Trapp

@Mark I get that from my family all the time and I HATE it. It's a Catch-22. If I refuse they think I'm being stuck up or unfriendly. Then I help and the next time something goes wrong it must have been my fault. My father is the worst. I have to fix everything because I must have broken it in the first place. Never mind that I've lived 500+ miles away for almost 20 years. - Kevin D. White

My family members know I work on my computer, as I work at home. like Susan, I play with FF, Twitter, Greader or my blog whenever i want a break. - Jansen Lu

Haha, Kevin: you might want to try telling them you only work with Macs. For me, and for a long time, that was like saying to people "No habla Englais!" and they'd leave you alone. But in the past couple of years, more and more people are getting Macs, so it's starting to lose its effectiveness. - Mark Trapp

@Mark We're in the same boat. - Kevin D. White