Instructions: Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture.
- Shawn Farner
Oh, weren't you bitching about FF stupid posts not making you smarter last week? Well, here ya go. No more bitching. We get to talk about bacon again.
- Eric - seven eleven
well we know what tomorrow's caption contest will be on Valleywag :-)
- Duncan Riley
There have been too many pics of his naked chest this week.
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Yeah, I don't care how many people take pictures of themselves in the shower, I'm not gonna join in that memefest. No thank you. Besides you've already seen my brother in the shower...Remove some weight, adjust the nose a bit and you've got me too...ugh...that's just so wrong.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Tina: I hope they don't do a shower meme. I'm not going to take a picture of myself in the shower, no matter how drunk you get me. *lol*
- Molly Song ;)
Is this your entry for the bitch face meme? It's a very disappointingly happy bitch face.
- Pete D
I like it - extending to a new audience. You know where the real hits on the Internet lie. Marketing genius.
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
from twhirl
can't I have my morning coffee first?sheesh.
- dpurrington
With all that flyin' around, Twittering, and Friendfeeding, he's gotta need 3 or 4 showers a day. The question is ..... Which soap is he plugging ? :)
- Charlie Anzman
I hope it's lever 2000 messing with Valleywag :)
- Anthony Farrior
my parents have a school picture of me wearing glasses that are even worse than yours! thankfully, not many pics of me as a kid survived. I have very few pics of me in general!
- alphaxion
I'm surprised how many of you had kid pics at the ready for this meme.
- Kevin Bondelli
kevin. i only have 2 pics of me as a kid. i don't speak to my mom and she's in kuwait or UAE now so i have no idea where my childhood things are. the pics i have my dad let me borrow them so i can scan them, but i had to send them back halfway across the country. it's so sad, because there's a lot of cute pics of me as a kid.
- Anika
@faboo I guess that is one of the big advantages of everything being digital now.
- Kevin Bondelli
This might be my fave from the Kid Meme bunch.
- Melissa
We met Pea for dinner tonight as she is on her trek to the other side of the country. Tad and I really enjoyed spending the evening with her. She was cracking us up the whole time. She got a great pic of me and her right when she was making me laugh. Tad took this one of the two of us.
Meryn, that is an interesting idea. I may just do that, but it is going to take me some time. I have far too many things on my plate right now.
- Rob Diana
Delicious' "popular" pages could be seen as hit charts. But the "artists" behind the hits is what you should look for, not the hits themselves. Although hits can be inspirational as well.
- Meryn Stol
Follow the devs behind the best libraries/frameworks. For me this is eg. John Resig who wrote jQuery.
- Richard Metzler
I'd be skeptical of a developer list to follow in social media sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, mainly due to the limitations of the platforms. Consider ESR: the guy is one heck of a developer, but he's also a gun freak and a staunch libertarian. Or RMS. Or say even the FriendFeed team: sure they talk about development, but they also talk a lot about Obama. Not to mention differing...
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- Mark Trapp
Mark, that is a problem with anyone that you follow though. Everyone has different opinions, and you have to weigh what is important to you. For example, Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins is someone that I will follow on a lot of networks, however we disagree on almost everything when it comes to politics. I do not subscribe to Mark for his politics, I subscribe for his tech views.
- Rob Diana
Rob, I guess what I'm saying is that take a list like that, 100 Developers You Must Follow, or however you want to phrase it, you're going to get a hell of a lot of noise. With blogs, it doesn't seem like it's a problem because people generally keep their blogs on a single topic, but with social networks and the like, it's everything about that person. Like you mentioned, it's okay for...
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- Mark Trapp
Mark, I guess I do not feel like the list would be authoratative, but more of a catalog. Many people are looking for users within their chosen niche and most of the time, a list of those users does not exist. So, getting a list together is useful, but you will always miss someone.
- Rob Diana
Congratulations on making the list, btw. How rude of me, I saw this yesterday!
- Mona Nomura
Thanks Mona. As I said, I was a little surprised.
- Rob Diana
Ping me if I haven't made a list for you by the end of the week.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I'm just glad that as you were doing a vanity search on Twitter, it was the word Buchheit highlighted. I would be disappointed if one of the other two names was.
- Louis Gray
In light of recent events here that I do not understand, I have decided to leave FriendFeed. Some people on here have obviously gone mad and I don't think it's good for my Chi. If you need me, you'll find me. Peace!
I immediately thought, "Yeah right, Rah..." lol
- Jennifer Leggio
Hrm...so nobody would believe me...LOL. Interesting :)
- Rahsheen?
OMG I just read this and my heart stopped I was totally ready to blame Derrik & take it out on him
- sofarsoShawn
Wait, wut? Whew, ok, I read the comment above and my heart started beating again. Don't scare me like that Rahsheen, cause I'm close enough to drive down and secure you to your computer with FF realtime scrolling in front of your eyes ;-)
- FFing Enigma
LMAO. That was funny. You totally got me. I started typing a plea for you to stay... and I'm not even subscribed to you. Well, now I am.
- Jim #TeamMonique
LOL. April 1st is too far away. This was too funny not to post as soon as I thought of it. Probably wouldn't have worked at any other time :)
- Rahsheen?
OMG Rah! You almost ruined my day!! :P:P:P:P You better be glad that was a joke or there would have been consequences! Don't make me come over there! :)
- Lindsay
Right now my kids are wondering why I just yelled "What the hell happened now?"
- Derek Coward
I know, right? LOL! I'm sure the McCain-wants-to-delay-the-debates face isn't helping :)
- Rahsheen?
1) Dad (Heaven) 2) Mom (Heaven) 3) Got back from Kuwait 4) My 2 sisters and me 4) "The Beginning" (The beginning of every day; the rise of every sun; God grants us new mercies)
- David Cook
Jennifer Leggio has given me the itch to get another one. I am wanting to add dates to Mom and Dad's tats. (And possibly the family name above the center-piece.)
- David Cook
2. RT smart people's stuff but add onto it with a good comment.
- Robert Scoble
3. If you have something smart to say, say it to someone directly like "Hey @techcrunch you should check out the new Palm Pre."
- Robert Scoble
I now await the inevitable flood of "RTs" of this message ;-)
- Warren
4. Send wine or other bribes to people who make lots of noise.
- Robert Scoble
Sounds like someone's running low on wine :)
- Eric Florenzano
5. If you are friends with a real celebrity bring them around at blogger/twitter parties. Make sure you get them to follow you and remember your name. All good twitterers have iPhones or other phones that they can tweet from.
- Robert Scoble
6. Put your twitter and friendfeed addresses on your business cards.
- Robert Scoble
7. Talk shit about Eric Florenzano. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Ok, well that's *someone's* blog done for tomorrow, then! :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
8. Follow people back if they add value. 1938media has added 1,000 new followers since he started following everyone back.
- Robert Scoble
What kind of wine goes with bribe? Did you ask GaryVee while in Vegas?
- Dave Cadoff
9. Talk shit about that Scoble dude. Yeah, me. Sometimes it gets a link and a follow. Especially if you teach me something while you are calling me an idiot.
- Robert Scoble
LOL *hands Robert a bottle of wine* Please add the "don't pout or make a twitter fuss when you notice someone drops you. Insecurity isn't a attraction"
- Sprite
10. Be interesting. Craig Newmark got hundreds of follows in first evening (I was the first to follow him) after I tweeted about him. Why? Because he was interesting already.
- Robert Scoble
Remember it's not about the followers - it's about the relationships. Your purpose of having many followers should be so you can build relationships with as many of them as possible.
- Jesse Stay
11. Do something sensational like tatoo your twitter address onto your face.
- Robert Scoble
BTW, (real-life) relationships then bring more followers
- Jesse Stay
Wine? Bribe? Anything will get noticed. Better yet, put a custom label on it and include your Twitter address on it.
- Robert Scoble
Liked for the 'talk shit about Scoble'. Also, Scoble, do you accept Mead?
- Will Higgins™
12. Hang out with Jesse Stay. Better yet, bring him to Twitter's headquarters for an interview (that's what I did and it worked).
- Robert Scoble
I've tried to do everything on this list, but the tattoo isn't going to work. I've already branded my twitter address onto several steers.
- Mike Nayyar
13. Stalk Guy Kawasaki until he calls the cops on you or follows you.
- Robert Scoble
14. Get naked. Take pictures. Include your Twitter address.
- Robert Scoble
er - we've seen most of your body, Robert, so where's *your* tatoo?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Jesse: that's what you think. Ask your real friends and they will probably tell you otherwise. :-)
- Robert Scoble
22. get on Leo Laporte's show and have him order his listeners to follow you. He did this last Sunday to my son and you should have seen the followers roll in. That dude has POWER!!!
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I asked them and they said you're the man
- Jesse Stay
23. Get @garyvee to take you wine tasting. Tweet it.
- Robert Scoble
naked pictures drunk sex and dying. got it. Oh, also, be Barack Obama. ANything else?
- Erin @queenofspain
25. Get Chris Brogan to say you are smart.
- Robert Scoble
Be hot and make sure your avatar shows it
- Chris Saad
WTF how pathetic do u have to be tohave this desire to be followed.Ppl follow u cuz they find u interesting & if not they will dump u period.Being a Personal Ball washer is just lame to get to have followers.be sure to hold ur ground.
- Baba
26. Get into an argument with @techcrunch.
- Robert Scoble
I've mentioned my Twitter account on The Tech Guy but I think my last name throws people. :D
- MarkCarras
29. Claim you are above this stupid game.
- Robert Scoble
Quit Twitter, come back after 2 months
- Jesse Stay
All bloggers are wrong at least every few posts. Especially me! :D
- MarkCarras
30. Follow more interesting people. That's why I've said for a year now it's most important who you follow, not who is following you. What I really was trying to say there is if you want better followers you've got to follow better people.
- Robert Scoble
lol Jesse. Twitter? What's that? I thought I was learning how to sell a shamwow
- Erin @queenofspain
What kind of wine are we talking here?
- Chris Poirier
Mark, you bet, but we are all type-A personalities. We hate to be told we're wrong and will defend it to our dying day. :)
- Jesse Stay
31: Give away something. Hold a contest.
- Robert Scoble
Launch a great Twitter service and stick your twitter name in the footer
- Chris Saad
32. Invite Louis Gray over for dinner. Make sure he brings his twins. Take pictures. 1000 extra points if you bring shirts for the twins with your Twitter address on them.
- Robert Scoble
34. Chris Saad is right. Speaking of Chris, if you party with him in Amsterdam you'll get more followers. Oh, and if you are the guy who wrote http://www.twittervision.com you'll get more followers.
- Robert Scoble
Not 'Chris Saad' robert - @ChrisSaad :D
- Chris Saad
Get in with the Mommy Bloggers and #GNO Tweeps
- Jesse Stay
Good call Jesse, I was going to say piss off the mommybloggers , but getting in with them works too...lol
- Erin @queenofspain
I've had 2 new FriendFeed followers just from this thread.
- Jesse Stay
Follow Garry Vee (don't ask me to spell his full name out at this time of night, please?) what kind of wine goes with Twittering. *lol* Well, Gary Vee is THE wine expert on Twitter. :P
- Molly Song ;)
Erin, it is my goal to be King of the Mommy bloggers
- Jesse Stay
Follow just 1 online multi-level marketer and you'll has a ton start following you
- Paul Povolni
I buy dinner for anyone who comes to my area and contacts me through Twitter...and is following me. :D
- MarkCarras
I find that not following people back increases the rate at which I gain followers
- Simon T Small
Simon: being Robert Scoble is pretty hard. You've gotta keep coming up with new ways to find followers. It's easier to call him an asshole on twitter. Even better, call him, TechCrunch, 1938media, JasonCalacanis, Guy Kawasaki, and a few other people assholes.
- Robert Scoble
37. Jeremiah Owyang found this one: stop Twittering.
- Robert Scoble
I'm amazed I don't get called an asshole more often. I think this should be my New Years Resolution. :D
- MarkCarras
38. Follow someone, then when they don't follow you back, call them out on it and say they are lame.
- Robert Scoble
39. Come up with a new Twitter game. Get it retweeted by Chris Brogan.
- Robert Scoble
Make a real funny stream on Friendfeed, but better yet put it on your blog so SEO really gathers people to it and put your Friendfeed/Twitter handles right in the post
- Ian D. Nock
40. Pay Magpie to spam everyone with your Twitter address.
- Robert Scoble
Oh don't tell people to talk shit about you. It's kinda sad to see people talking crap about you, then when you're some place they are, they turn all fanboy.
- Anika
Robert: wait, not change in plans, I don't hate those people, damn it!
- Simon T Small
No one gets to be King of the mommybloggers until I deem it so dammit
- Erin @queenofspain
42. Hang out with @newmediajim at the Inauguration.
- Robert Scoble
43. Hang out with Hillary Clinton in Davos (my dream).
- Robert Scoble
Erin, but I thought you were the Queen of Spain
- Jesse Stay
44. Come up with a new set of rules for Twitter behavior.
- Robert Scoble
Oh boy, Mr. Scoble. I hope you are not Tweeting while getting drunk and having sex... Poor Mommy and son... Some things need to stay sacred. Do you really want the world at large to know what you are doing at all times? Quit goofing and send us more tech info we enjoy. Great videos from CES by the way. I even got my partner to come and watch some of them. Thanks for the good stuff!
- Colleen
45. Get more followers on Facebook then get them all to join you on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
46. Be @god. Even better. Be @god and hand out beta invites to something cool coming soon.
- Robert Scoble
Colleen: I didn't say I use all these ideas. But I've seen them work on other people. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Give a talk at a geek event and make sure you give out your Twitter name for feedback
- Chris Saad
47. Twitter the birth of your new baby (high risk, if you aren't there mentally during contractions you might see your iPhone thrown across the room).
- Robert Scoble
Pay @MrTweet to recommend you to everyone
- Chris Saad
48. Tweet exclusive Apple news before anyone else does.
- Robert Scoble
49. Be the first to retweet a big earthquake tweet.
- Robert Scoble
51. Follow everyone then unfollow as soon as you get a follow - follow that?
- Mona Nomura
Chris: Influence is gold, like it, am tuned
- Simon T Small
This post alone lets me see the value of FriendFeed over Twitter for conversations. Glad the list above isn't documentation of your personal twitter conquest, but a record of some of the looneyness of Twitter follower greediness
- Paul Povolni
52. Move to SF and go to every. single. Tweet-up! YAY HOW FUN!
- Mona Nomura
Scott: I don't know that this list helped me that much. But, how about a list of things that will get rid of followers? I bet that one would work better.
- Robert Scoble
53. Set text alerts for Brightkite and follow all the huge Tweeter's comings and goings - show up and SUBTLY introduce yourself so you'll be name dropped. Keyword = SUBTLY
- Mona Nomura
54. Go to every single conference and shamelessly pass out your Twitter in lieu of email!
- Mona Nomura
Streak at the Supebowl with your twitter name on your front and back(side)
- Simon T Small
Jesse: that only used to work. There are no defaults on friendfeed anymore. In fact, if you don't have any friends it won't recommend anyone to you.
- Robert Scoble
Name drop as much as you can and do whatever it takes to get written up on ValleyWag (wow, I've learned a lot in six months!)
- Mona Nomura
Get Robert Scoble to tweet that he can't believe what's going on at your birthday party even though it was a tame house party with friends
- Chris Saad
Tell people to NOT follow you. I mean it. Don't.
- Andrew Smith
Post a bajillion pictures of your kids, pets, and more kids.
- Mona Nomura
Make sure you participate in every. single. Robert post and name drop him as much as possible. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Mona, great one - Kids, Dogs, and Kittenz - Bacon, too
- Jesse Stay
@Dieter if a post was sponsored by anyone scoble would let u know - trust me
- Chris Saad
Go to every. single. event and take + post as many. pictures. as you can w/ the "famous" people and PING.FM THOSE PICTURES!
- Mona Nomura
Here's a novel idea - Have something interesting to say and focus on producing value instead of your follower count :)
- Chris Saad
Mona, Facebook and Flickr tag them as well
- Jesse Stay
Always respond to people with an "@" ie: @scobelizer WOW this thread RULES - since you never know what Google's indexing!
- Mona Nomura
Dieter: Huh? If anything this post would be sponsored by Seagate. You can follow them at http://friendfeed.com/seagate (Seagate sponsors my video show, not my friendfeed account).
- Robert Scoble
Mona: 'post famous pictures' Love it. Works a charm on facebook.
- Simon T Small
i have a new one: use Browser bugs to greet your blogvisitors with their twittername http://is.gd/eMdF @andreasklinger
- Andreas Klinger
Chris: having something interesting to say? No, that couldn't work, could it? I'd rather talk about my followers. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Retweet this thread (no, that's not a request, it's an idea)
- Jesse Stay
Chris Saad: yer talkin crazy with that last one. Focus on content? Insanity.
- Scott Kingery
55: Dieter reminded me of one more: talk about products that already have Twitter accounts. When I talked about HR Block they followed me. So did Ford. So did Zappos.
- Robert Scoble
Find a unique thing that you can help another Twitter user on - the bigger the user, the better. Fix their problem.
- Jesse Stay
So did @HeavyAsHell Oh wait, that's my site. :D
- MarkCarras
Luke: T-shirts are so common. How about shoes? Jeans? Underwear? Don Box used to have his company logo on underwear. Called them "Boxer shorts." I still remember those, even though I've forgotten all the lame Tshirts I've ever gotten.
- Robert Scoble
Only a slut is going to be able to advertise well with branded underwear
- MiniMage
Compete for the most followers on Twitter - didn't Leo and Calacanis do that at one time? (or am I getting the contenders wrong?)
- Jesse Stay
MiniMage: not true. Don Box is no slut. He now runs a team at Microsoft.
- Robert Scoble
I think a good way to make more friends is to live an interesting life. Life is a journey. You meet people just around every corner. Twitter happens to be one of them.
- Helge V. Keitel
Build up and help out a non-A list, but up-and-coming A or B list Twitter user or blogger. They will be more appreciative (it's those people that like the shirts and swag).
- Jesse Stay
Tweet something like this: "I'm looking for funny people to follow, do you know any?"
- Robert Scoble
Get @gapingvoid to use your twitter address in one of his cartoons (he designed my business cards and you would be amazed how well that works).
- Robert Scoble
@Mona use a hot suggestive silhouette as your avatar - that alwasy helps too
- Chris Saad
Take Louis Gray to a Vodka bar. You might not get any followers, but you will have a good time and he doesn't drink so you'll have a safe drive home, too!
- Robert Scoble
Create a custom T-shirt with "I Love Your Stream" (mine) on front(or your own words) and your Twitter name on back. I did it with @crypticfragment at zazzle.com. Still waiting for it. I didn't put twitter name on back though, should have, but not trying to gain HUGE followers, just the ones that would like to hear about furniture,interior design and eco home stuff! I put: twitter:FTW, on the back.
- Leslie Carothers
Robert, not to mention get on the front of Valleywag
- Jesse Stay
I keep hiding this but it doesn't stay hidden. :(
- Mona Nomura
Jesse: I find that I get a lot of followers by keeping the A list on the A list. Who wants to deal with those assholes if they fall onto the B list?
- Robert Scoble
I'm with @garyvee & how he encourages us to *execute the best YOU* - don't try to be anyone else but the *best* you... your passionate self. Peeps who resonate with you will follow. And for sure add value, retweet good resources, build peeps up, thank those who comment on your blog & RT you.
- Mari Smith
58. Post to a list to get people to follow you. such as the one explaining how to get people to follow you...
- Sheraz Mahmood
Name drop Hollywood celebrities even if you don't know them.
- Mona Nomura
By the way, I'm following everyone who has participated on this so far. Why? Because only geeks would be online on a Saturday night and I want to follow all the geeks. So, everyone here has at least one follower on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
write a dramatic post about a family from Romania with a child with down syndrome and ask people to donate money.
- Simon T Small
Robert: You'll need to unfollow me, its 6pm Sunday here in Aussieland, so I'm not a commited geek sorry
- Simon T Small
Robert: Gotta do something while Windows 7 downloads :)
- Scott Kingery
Haha!! So busted - very good point re your last comment, Robert. Thank goodness for fab understanding spouses is all I say. hehe
- Mari Smith
60. Get on FriendFeed and Twitter super early and become de facto popular. And yes, #32 is a must.
- Louis Gray
Another tip: Don't live in Australia nearly NOBODY here is on Twitter
- Simon T Small
Compliment the crap out of "A-listers" and always laugh at all of their jokes. Make sure to add at least seven exclamation points. ie:"LOL!!!!!!!!!!" to stand out from the crowd.
- Mona Nomura
Note: above only works if you participate in every. single. one of their posts on both Twitter and FriendFeed!
- Mona Nomura
Robert: 5:30 pm in Tokyo. I'm pretty much just getting going for the day. :-)
- Ken Brady
Say something that makes a 200 + comment thread ;)
- videopixil
When you send bribes, make sure to research. ie: LG doesn't drink but Robert likes wine. Subtly ask for preferences so they'll get something they actually _like_ <--KEY.
- Mona Nomura
Use Tweetdeck and apply filters to see subjects you are expert in. You'll notice lots of people look for advice in certain fields so you can reply and show your expertise. I notice those people you help are happy and more likely to follow you even if you don't follow them.
- Luca Filigheddu
from fftogo
@videopixil Of course, that applies to most things Scoble says.
- Ken Brady
@tkpleslie says," Ask people like @scobleizer sincere question about whether Nokia's new phone works for people, like me, that wear hearing aids when's he's in Japan in middle of your night at the actual Nokia conference where phone is being intro'd for first time. He did respond,nicely,but did not follow so I guess it doesn't work too well.
- Leslie Carothers
Send Mona lego art wrapped in bacon. Oh wait, that'll get you friendfeed follows.
- Yuvi
This was before I really understood as @marismith says, that true value in twitter for me is having followers and following those people with intersecting paths because, like in real life, that's how interesting real conversations have a chance to develop into fuller, deeper, more lasting relationships.
- Leslie Carothers
Robert, It's Sunday Morning in Loviisa, Finland ;)
- Helge V. Keitel
Leslie: I did follow you here on friendfeed. I still haven't been able to find out if it works well for hearing impaired. I'm sure it does, though. The speaker phone on that device is pretty darn good.
- Robert Scoble
Speak in SAT verbiage at all times to make yourselves sound smarter.
- Mona Nomura
Never admit: ay kin knot reed end rite... :(
- Mona Nomura
This is a great list Robert, I love making new friends. All those awful things people are saying about you must be wrong - aren't they? -]
- Chris Loft
Post YouTube clips of classical music to make yourself seem more cultured.
- Mona Nomura
Share everythign popular on digg because if it's on digg, it MUST be cool.
- Mona Nomura
stop following people who post about following and follow people who don't try...
- Ryan
mention yourself on Scobles friendfeed (@mattrendo)
- Matt Rendo
Keep up with memes since everyone wants to hear what's been repeated on the web a trillion times without contributing a new opinion. ie: CES looks cool.
- Mona Nomura
All great points. I've always hated requests for follows. I'm only attempting something like it for charity. In that instance, those who do the same should be very clear about WHY they want followers in the first place. Otherwise it looks like you're just in it for yourself.
- Brandon Mendelson
Chris Loft: everything said about me is absolutely true! :-)
- Robert Scoble
So it's true that you have huge... giant... socks?
- Chris Saad
Thanks for the follow here on FriendFeed, Robert. I know this is where you interact. But,because home base for me is Twitter, I never saw your follow here until I went to comment on this thread! It's too much for me to constantly go back and forth and also keep up with work, life,friends and family.How do you guys do it? Thanks, tho, Robert,for letting me know. I learn from you ALL the time.
- Leslie Carothers
I really am not obsessed with more followers. Sure I appreciated them as much as the next person. It is not a popularity contest for my use case. Hence, I will never be a "Top 100" person on Twitter. ;)
- Rodney Rumford
If it's on the Internet, it is ALWAYS true, Robert. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Try to explain yourself out of being a geek when you really are
- Jesse Stay
I am indeed a failure, all the more reason to follow me... and that BACON Mona N. mentioned
- Matt Rendo
Get Robert Scoble to Foreward/Afterword your book for you
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse I'm incapable of explaining myself out of being a geek. Better to embrace it.
- Ken Brady
61: Add on to a Robert Scoble numbered list with an incrementally interesting item.
- Steve Garfield
back up your success with nothing more than 140 characters
- Sheraz Mahmood
I've noticed that people who start a controversy, especially with a high profile person, get an immediate boost in followers. You'd think it would backfire but it seems to have the opposite effect. Maybe it's the trainwreck factor? People curious what on earth will be said next?
- Liz
Apparently posting on Scoble's Friendfeed works... 6 followers in the last few minutes.
- Matt Rendo
Woah. 278+ comments. Impressive! This is definitely one that will stick on FFholic for a while.
- Phil Glockner
Wondering is anybody will read all these comments. I do believe if twitter doesn't get it together, that a large group will flock out to another destination. ala: Poof!
- Dave
Hey @scobleizer, your post would have been more appropriate on a blog.
- Klaus Alexander Seistrup
Post photos of cute puppies on FriendFeed.
- Amit Morson
To get followers, jump into a Tweetchat "room", get into the convo, follow folks then tell them in the chat room that you are following. For the "Happy09" chat, there were tons of people in there. Better yet, start your own chat/chat meme!
- Jesse P. Luna
@ reply like crazy to let the person know you followed them ie: @Scobleizer HI I FOLLOWED YOU FOLLOW ME BACK repeat until FailWhale/FailRobot shows up.
- Mona Nomura
Well, that's starting to work . . . anyone else getting lots of new friends? . . . and I didn't have to insult anybody. I think I might have to post one of my classical video clips for Mona http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Chris Loft
Leslie, the N series work v well with the hearing impaired, but the iPhone works even better from my experience FTW!
- Sally Church
One thing that annoys me: people who discuss their follower numbers on twitter. Its just not interesting! I just subscribed to someone and unsubscribed the next day as 4 tweets were about passing 10000 - I'm very glad for you but it is just noise in my feed. Now I understand the feeling - I was amazed the day 100 people followed me (it is all relative :) ) - but it is not necessary to tweet about it.
- Iphigenie
I was going to send you some Swiss wine Robert, but I was told it doesn't travel well, so drank it myself. Just so you know, it was good :-)
- Paul Shadwell
I'm paling up with several here, in spite of what Mr. Scoble says about Saturday night geeks. -Mr. Geek ;-P
- Eddie Soto
Participate in a Robert Scoble's friendfeed conversation on Saturday night, have him follow you, post the screenshot of him following you
- Bertrand Doux
On the subject of more followers, arrrrrgh! *runs screaming from room.... *
- Sally Church
Tweet about Windows 7(or something equally as interesting), which I'll be doing a lot of in the coming days, It's installing as I type this!
- Kevin Lloyd
Tweet, but don't tweet too much because people apparently don't want to hear from you (or is it just me! ;)) THAT much! :)
- Christopher Kusek
Paul, what's that about swiss wine not travelling so well? It travels beautifully (but you need to get the good ones). It is so hard to find outside Switzerland because the swiss tend to drink all of it.
- Iphigenie
Liz, I thought that was really funny cos it's Sunday evening here. I'm not some z-list geek sitting here wasting my time on a Saturday night. -[
- Chris Loft
point 4 above is shameless self-plug :) but entertaining :)))
- A. T.
64. Comment on a Robert Scoble list at 2:21 AM in bed becausse you could not sleep
- Tyler (Chacha)
65. Plan to write a blog post on thisentry in the morning
- Tyler (Chacha)
66. Fail at placing a space between in this and entry on a scoble list ( iPod recognizes Scoble as a word and auto completed it)
- Tyler (Chacha)
get stuck on a bus in death valley in the middle of the night with robert scoble.
- Christine Lu
Follow an obscure norwegian and get incoherent conversations about whales, blåbærsyltetøy, and the semantic web;) (which may make people curious.. or unfollow you actually..)
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Get up at 6 am on Sundays if living in Europe because otherwise you miss Robert Scoble's craziest moments and most interesting threads = people *damn* I should have never slept in!
- Gaby K. Slezák
A real one: Upload a sexy picture on your profile or your twitter bg !!
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
Claim that Scoble and Techcrunch are simply manufactured entities by a mysterious corporate power using Coke vs. Pepsi tactics to polarize the masses in an effort to conquer the world.
- Bob Starr
RT @scobleizer Robert this is good advice, except I don't see any reference to bodacious tat-tas. ;)
- John Craft
RT @scobleizer Robert wow, your post generated so many comments, is this the most number of comments from a single tweet in Twitter history? Can anyone confirm?
- Alvin
Sorry not Twitter, this is from FriendFeed :)
- Alvin
67. write about stuff you are enthusiastic about and that's only covered by a handful of people yet (like virtual worlds, metaverse) and shamelessly reveal that you are enthusiastic about that in one of the most commented on @scobleizer threads ;-)
- Gaby K. Slezák
stop reading half way but say it was awesome anyway
- Stephen Breen
You forgot about having a whole lot of time on your hands!
- John D Reasor
I can't scroll to the bottom ;-) This list is hilarious! Robert, I'm glad you have been taking notes this whole time!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Do NOT use the phrase "social media" in your Twitter bio.
- Frank Scavo
"16. Tweet from jail" ahahahahahahaha :)
- disconnesso
I knew I should have tweeted from the back of that police van on the stroke of new year's eve, watching the fireworks. And walking away. Walking. With a big grin on my face. We'z not dus photoz. Doh.
- Chris Loft
Write an "unofficial biography of Robert Scoble" and have it published? ;)
- Tyson Key
“Scoble's law of unfollows: for everyone who you get on Twitter that says they will unfollow you will get 87 new followers.” http://tinyurl.com/9oahwc
- Tapio Kulmala
Talk about the versatility of bacon - BACON - crisp, tasty BACON
- BEX
Just noticed this is a very dude-heavy thread (not all but mainly) and that I mainly subscribe to guys on FriendFeed. But on Twitter I have about 60/40 men/women Following mix, I think. It was the comments about ta-tas and sexy profile photos that made me realize the difference.
- Liz
nope its nun of the above; .they are just hacking into your FF account;If you really want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed this is what you do, its...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.they got me.
- tomartomartini
Yep .. I think this has reached the most active discussion .. ever (It past Dave Winer's post which is most discussed in past 30 days)
- Tyler (Chacha)
Come on people! We need to reach 500 comments!
- Tyler (Chacha)
Tweet unto you as you would like to be tweeted.
- iamkhayyam
Create a Robert Scoble fan blog and title it Mr. Awesome. :)
- Bill Romanos
69. start a list and slowly move out of it as other members of the community move in to pick it up (there is no 68) - you are now running things without even being there.
- Valeria Maltoni
Be a more interesting what Robert? :p oh and maybe follow the fastest top ten commenters here.
- mrsha
I don't remember any friendfeed item getting more than 300 comments. I think this is now the new high water mark. Wow!
- Robert Scoble
Or: Post a “If you want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed here's what to do:” tweet :-)
- Marco Massarotto
Not being in this comment stream is so embarrassing. Wait, so is BEING in this comment stream!
- Tom Guarriello
i wonder if you did it all wrong, would you really get no followers...
- Iphigenie
Joelle: if you did it all wrong you would still get followers but they just would be all spammers.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - define spam... Is this post spam?
- Brian Roy
Comment on the longest thread in Friendfeed history.
- Mike Lewis
You're right! I forgot about the spammers :D
- Iphigenie
it seems pretty simple: post interesting things, interact thoughtfully, and be patient
- Kelly W.
70. When all else fails, make interesting crap up about Robert, Gary, Brogan, etc..
- Todd Jordan
It isn't how many follow you... it is the quality of those you follow. But... that makes it hard to keep score and determine who is "winning".
- Brian Roy
patient? I want 1000 followers and I want them now! ;) (actually, I am with Kelly on this one)
- Iphigenie
You know... Chris Brogan liked a post of mine and retweeted it letting everyone know... it ended up bringing me about 800 new visitors in the span of 2 hours. There's definitely something to be said about being seen with the right people. :)
- Steven Sanders
Hey Robert, say something positive about each of us today? Really be a boost.
- Todd Jordan
AVG works just fine for me under Windows 7!
- Dave Oliver
Todd: you all are beautiful. And smart. That's why I am following everyone on this thread.
- Robert Scoble
It's simple, but just do two things (in order): 1. Create good content. 2. Market that content in an intelligent, non-spammy way.
- Daniel Miessler
Daniel: marketing part is what we're really talking about here. How to/who to/when to/where to/what to market.
- Todd Jordan
I'm wondering at how many comments this will start crashing browsers
- Iphigenie
That said: Talk about Twitter and FriendFeed all day every day. Don't forget to include: "I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT" in all of your profiles.
- Mona Nomura
Make special badges that scream your self proclaimed title. You know, kind of like flair? Or girl/boy scouts?
- Mona Nomura
@Mona - heck yeah, huge % of new followers claim to be soc media experts.
- Todd Jordan
Todd- FAIL. You forgot Rule #163. NAME DROP. @scobelizer (I'm just namedropping but really addressing Mona... err @monaaa)
- Mona Nomura
Not call anyone out but I think it should be: " I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA SLUT!1!" ;-P
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew - CRAP you stole my thunder... I'm working on a blog post entitled "How to know if you are a social media slut"... thanks!
- Brian Roy
Brian - I hope that comes after: "10,000 Ways to Effectively use Twitter for Business"
- Mona Nomura
I wish FF would timestamp comments. It'd be interesting to know how this conversation flowed...or jumped around.
- Liz
Mona - pretty sure those two are the same post... No?
- Brian Roy
Liz: Just hang out over the little convo balloon to the left of the comments. It shows you how long ago the comment was left. :-)
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
Be serious at ALL times since analyzing Social Networks with charts and graphs is THE FUTURE!
- Mona Nomura
Announce your twitter address after saying the pledge of allegiance over the school intercom system.
- David Rose
I drunk tweet all the time, and it doesn't help. People just email you AA invitations.
- Alex Wilhelm
Since you are all here... I was wondering. Have you seen my car keys?
- Brian Roy
Will find out soon if becoming a social media diva pin-up acquires more followers :)
- Nicola Quinn
PLAY with your followers and build a community of FANS. Start a meme, host a trivia session (@linnetwoods), do fun thematic Blip.fm sets (@jesseluna, @Dave_Malby), start a fun-spirited smackdown battle with another Twitterer (@Dana_Wilhoit and @SeanAMcAlister). UStream and play Wii while you're lightly toasted with a fun friend (@queenofspain)
- Jesse P. Luna
Start your own threads using all and only Robert's suggestions. Originality means nothing, it's all about being a Robert clone!
- Mona Nomura
Be imperfect, fragile, human - someone everyone can relate to.
- Tomi Itkonen
Participate in memes where you can post old pictures of yourself from 70s, 80s or 90s.
- Larry Kless
@Scobleizer so far I tweet from party, wc, roadtrip, first minutes of the new year, wc again, meeting, boring meeting, boring presentation, wedding, engagement, hospital... I think I am on good track !!!
- Alemsah Ozturk
Talk like you are deluded into thinking the iPhone and Apple computers are superior machines.
- Mark Stahler
Help Robert getting 400 comments or any other all time high on friendfeed!
- Gaby K. Slezák
Here's the 401st for good measure! I kinda use Twitter and FF to keep up with new, and record ideas and thoughts for myself, but if some people out there find a common ground with me, that's very cool! I think too much is placed on these online friend / follower counts overall tho... BTW, this comment is probably on the "How NOT to get more followers on Twitter or FF" list. :) Keep feeding me the knowledge Scobs!
- AdPanda
Spell @Scobleizer correctly when trying to drop a name ... lol.
- Robert Couture
Bump .... @charlieanzman. I can't believe this thread!
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie - the sheer #s of comments or the fact that this is such a popular topic?
- Susan Beebe
How can you possibly read all of this and get anything done? This is an example of FF overkill.
- Scott Maentz
@Susan folks are now commenting for the fun of it. :)
- Todd Jordan
Wow! I remember when this began as three items, then Scoble got all giddy and inspired and started this hilarious chain of absurdity. Well done Mr. @Scobleizer
- Paul Povolni
Make sure to be a hater and nit-pick on every. little. thing. someone does online!
- Mona Nomura
Take everything someone says as a personal attack and rant!
- Mona Nomura
Complain about every. little. thing.
- Mona Nomura
Change your display name everyday aNd mAkE sUrE tO tYpE LiKe DiS
- Mona Nomura
Make sure to kiss a whole buncha *ss and name drop, name drop, name drop!
- Mona Nomura
every 3rd comment should be "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooopooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooopoopoooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooppooooooooooooo oooo" wow... It is hard to enter that many o's on an iPhone. EDIT -> I put in spaces - apparently I annoyed Brandon...
- Brian Roy
@Brian: Please edit your post so it doesn't break everyone's feed. I'd like to not hide this item. Thanks.
- AJ Kohn
I think that I made a comment on this post but I can't find it. And Mona, you are cracking me up!!
- BEX
I wonder if there is a limit to how many comments can be added to a post on FF
- Susan Beebe
The funniest part about all this is that I've gotten a *ton* of followers for posting on this thread. Weird! I think once my programming-related FF activity resumes people will drop from my feed like flies :)
- Eric Florenzano
Too bad I can't tweet the link (yet) -- of this 400+ comment -- I don't know how to call this. Not a Tweetversation by any means. A FFversation? Anyone come out with any sensible terms?
- David Feng
subscribe to Friendfeeds for Twitter Celebs and read their Twitter hints... Start with Scoble..
- TechMama Beth Blecherman
I see "423 more comments". That's the most I have ever seen so far in FF!
- Winston Teo
TechMama: that will work very well. Of course then you'll only be fed shallow news. The real good stuff is on the K list. They aren't on the bottom, so they have a few followers, but they really don't give a shit so they are very real and teach you stuff. Unfortunately they usually don't stay on the K list very long. They either get moved up pretty fast or they get put in rehab for social media addiction.
- Robert Scoble
What was this thread about? I forgot, AGAIN!
- Jim Bednarz
Jim: me too, it's taken on a life of its own. Oh, yeah, it was about how to make money with friendfeed. Heheheh. Yeah, right!
- Robert Scoble
Quick! Scoble's about to do a 'How to make money on friendfeed' post now. Looking for the hattrick ;~)
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Ed: heheh. how to make money in friendfeed? Get a million followers. The money will come. Or maybe not. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I guess you could charge for seminars on how to get a million followers ;D
- Seth Greenblatt
Robert - Think you broke your own record with this one. 255 Likes and 437 comments ?! Guess nobody's embracing Friendfeed tonight :)
- Charlie Anzman
Nobody's gonna read this, but I can't help observing that "I've got 10000 followers" is kinda like saying "I have 1000 books on my bookshelf", as if the number, not the content, is the important thing.
- Mr. Gunn
Charlie .. his last one has 300 comments and over 300 likes I believe ... But this thread is 70 people away from reaching every single person on Friendfeed. (Given the 500 like rule)
- Tyler (Chacha)
ChaCha - Ya gotta love it. Now when he reaches everyone on the Internet ... :)
- Charlie Anzman
Susan - Wasn't ignoring you ... just got lost in the middle of this ScobleChaChaMeMeWhateverItIs ... night all :)
- Charlie Anzman
Most importantly, get followed by @scobleizer hope he retweets, likes and/or comments on your posts.
- Christian Anderson
Christian: that's fair. I keep hoping you retweet, like, or comment on mine! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Yikes, I see there are 442 "collapsed" comments that follow Robert Scoble's teaser! (I won't dare to "expand" them - it would take ages to read them all.) The subject clearly preys on people's minds... Scoble has a knack for hitting the right button!
- Yule Heibel
I wonder if Mobile Safari would have such an implosion that the iPhone would shatter in my hands, if I tried to expand that thread.
- MiniMage
doing video works pretty well too :)
- Loic Le Meur
great, robert, this is *really* pushing the limit :)
- Alberto D'Ottavi
tweet about the size of Robert's ..... =X
- Rachael Depp
whoa comment frenzy! @FriendFeed can you please build a Comment Quality filter before I attempt to make sense of all this user generated erm "content"? Now there's a question: how do we measure Comment Quality?
- Bob Hitching
I was lucky enough to arrive at his 3rd or 4th point... it was amazing to see it happen on the fly, as I and other people jumped in. It was like a chat room or IM chat.
- Simon T Small
Oh, and by commenting a couple of times on this post, I got 36 new twitter followers and about 6 new friend feed followers in 12 hours
- Simon T Small
omg.. why isn´t there a comment link on the bottom as well ? Especially useful on the iphone. I forgot the witty remark that would ensure me thousands of followers by the time I finger-scrolled to the top and to the bottom again on this insanely long thread. Oh, well, at least my comments are seen sometimes.. hello ?
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
I do like how #1: Stop your bloody begging and whining for followers is still showing though. :-P
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Re: 18., Tweet from the great beyond. INSANE follow numbers then. ;-p
- mtlb
This is certainly quite interesting thread. I wonder how many Likes this will get. :D
- Daniel Schildt
This thread has become a meme unto itself. As I once said, Robert Scoble plays social media like a virtuoso musician. FTW
- Sheldon Steiger
from twhirl
It gets cold in my computer room/office. This would be great to have on while I'm online or just reading a book even.
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
It's a freaking SNUGGIE and I think they're retarded. I think it's because I can't stand how commercials for stuff like this make simple tasks look impossible. OH NOES! It's IMPOSSIBLE to drink hot chocolate AND cover myself in a blanket!!! WHAT WILL I DO!!!!
- Rahsheen?
I'm so sick of those infomercials. Couldn't someone just wear a bathrobe backwards?
- Jennifer Leggio
The commercials are definitely bad but I still think the product idea itself is good.
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
LOL @ Rasheen....I want to know where the 'overacting school of infomercialdom' is located. The gasp, the wince, the large "O" mouth, these are skills that must be learned to hawk wares!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Those skills are also usable in porno, janet. Perhaps the same school?
- FFing Enigma
Ah Tina! It has been years since I saw any porno, but you are correct if my memory is still valid ;)
- Janet:#TeamMonique
I always make my wife laugh when I predict the "But wait, there's more!" moments.
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
My Dad has just showed me a Pac Man lunchbox from 1980 that he has for sale, who's geek enough? :) Btw the dark patch on the left is my finger / awful photography skills
"There is a lot of future potential for FriendFeed when it comes to enterprise business, especially as it — and services such as Ping.fm — introduce more features that can help aggregate and proliferate information."
- Hutch Carpenter
I like this a lot. Now I'd like lowest-possible barriers to entry such as FF accepting OpenID and Google/Yahoo accounts for registration. The easier it is for my compatriots to join my room the better.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
FriendFeed is doing it the 'right' way -- if there is a right or wrong, taking babysteps instead of implementing everything all at once. FF ftw!
- Mona Nomura
I had the idea of "Friendfeed" for battlefield awareness. It would be called "ForceFeed" :P
- Kevin L
@klecu: Can we mix it with the "commander" metaphor from Ender's Game / Natural Selection / Battlefield 2 / Savage? I'd buy that.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Not really that I care that much, but you're gorgeous, and I LOVE your voice :) --yes, again
- directeur
Russell, I'm headed to dinner with a friend from across the pond, but I'll what I can do when I get back. And directeur aka Karim aka NoiseRiver: thank you. Yes, again =D
- FFing Enigma
That was random. Considering I don't know what its in reference to.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
@matt if you click on the video you'll see a bar on the bottom with other videos. The first video is me asking what the purpose of seesmic is...lol
- Brandon
Haha Brandon's intro scared the shit out of me.
- Rodfather
I'm lazy, so I'm going to ask rather than look: is there a room for frugal living tips (aka stretching a buck, not being a tightwad!)? If not, is there interest in one (cause I'll happily start and share!).
While everyone's flippin' out ... Don't you realize what's going on in Iceland??. They were drinking up there before all this started .... and it's cold .... "Send Vodka"
Maryam made me give her the remote control upon threat of death. Or worse. Cause? Heroes. Sigh. Of course I handed over the remote control. When Maryam threatens Robert listens! :-)
She wanted to watch Heroes. I watched too.
- Robert Scoble
it's funny, more than 20 people liked this "news" that is definitely useless for everyone... I'm missing something from Social Media... sorry Robert, 1) who bother?!? 2) is there something strange with the fact a wife orders something to her husband?!?:-)
- Luca Filigheddu
luca: I think the Likes come from the fact that other geeks understand and have had the same experience in their households. Not everything is news on FriendFeed. In fact, most of what comes through my FriendFeed is actually "noise." Hit hide and move on. :-)
- Robert Scoble
luca, part of social media is getting to know people in their everyday lives as well. A lot of people, myself included, know Robert and his family pretty well. And even people that don't know him well know him in an extended way through his online personality. But that's why hide is so cool if you don't like it hide it. If you do like it like it. We all have those choices.
- Thomas Hawk
Robert, Enjoyed your panel at BlogWorld Expo, heard youhave moved day job, congratulations, Sending BlogWorld Master videos to BW staff this week for further processing, Respectfully, Nicholas 'the video guy' @BWE2008
- Nicholas Chase
Smart man. Now don't ya'll spoil Heroes for me until I can watch this new season.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
My Canon 5D... because there's nothing like buying something with cash and knowing you're done with the purchase right there and then. Seriously, nothing better than saving up for something then getting it. So worth it.
- Raoul Pop
My laptop and DSLR because I bought them with saved pocket change.
- FFing Enigma
My wine fridge...it keeps my wine comfortably cool and tasty until I'm ready to drink it.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
All of the new furniture in my apartment (couch, lamps, dressers, ottoman and associated artwork). Paid cash for all of it and it feels so good to have pretty stuff free and clear.
- Jennifer Leggio
I was looking more for why you liked that particular product, more than the satisfaction of having bought it without assistance... The loan qualification was to keep people from saying "my house" or "my car". There are other more interesting things you scrimp and save for... just wondering WHY you scrimped and saved.
- Lindsay
Got it! In that case, because it was important to me to upgrade to better quality stuff and feel like a bona fide "grown-up". It was a sense of accomplishment to have an apartment devoid of any college-type furniture.
- Jennifer Leggio
Beyond house, car, good computer and a/v gear, in recent years I've been going more for experiences than for "stuff". Vacations, travel, scuba, skydiving, things like that, more likely to expand my mind than clutter my house.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Awesome, LE - I am getting to that point in my life too... Except for the occasional gadget and craft supplies I don't really NEED any more stuff. I am planning, as soon as I have time, to start figuring out what is really useful in my life and culling the rest... and, like you, I want to spend our disposable income on experiences instead of stuff. The main hold-up is time... having to work in an office with only a few weeks a year of vacation time and losing even more of it with overtime...
- Lindsay
The one thing I really WISH I could buy is more time!
- Lindsay
I would like to have lasik surgery. It sounds so worth it.
- Rodfather
Whenever I feel the world is against me I play with my son, Milan, and he gives me one of these. Hope it brightens your day too! We need more smiles in today's economy!
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
Aww, he's adorable and yes, he put a smile on my face. It's like seeing pictures of my almost 19 month old nephew. They make me smile. :)
- Molly Song ;)
On the other hand, it's 1 a.m. and he's still running around here. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble