Seems cool enough. Ability to save some of the 140 not putting the user's name and "RT" in the message.
- Paul Whitaker
I like the declarative attribution that's shown through RT. I worry that with Twitter's implementation, we'll start to lose the sense of what is being shared and why. To me, the semantics of "RT" and "via" say something specific about what we think of a tweet and what others should do with it. I suppose clients like TweetDeck can implement the "RT" as part of the display of a link, but I'm not sure why Twitter feels compelled to change this. Seems like there is so much more they could be doing.
- Randy Holloway
They DM me and ask me to retweet their crap all the time, but never talk to me like a human.
- Chris Brogan
Wouldn't un-following them be a more cool-headed response? that way they can't DM you anymore, right?
- Chris Heath
ah. yeah, a bit rude isn't it? The audacity of the request are amazing sometimes. So look, if you snapped on someone for it... well, they ought to have the social wherewith all to know that's rude. One wouldn't walk up to you at a dinner party with the same request.
- Ted Bradford II
It's a sickness that's spreading throughout Twitter
- Bwana ☠
maybe this is the controversy that Allen Stern is looking for this weekend? http://friendfeed.com/allenst... I can see the headlines now... "Brogan blows up over DM RT request - Play him off keyboard cat!"
- Chris Heath
It's rarely the big guys (well, Gary V, but he's special). It's always the folks who see me as a number and not a dude.
- Chris Brogan
you should open another account called, "retweet robot' for fun, and DM people to ask post their request there instead
- zach
My sympathies, though in a sense it is a good problem to have. Your tweets have significant value, which others recognize (and try to take advantage of).
- DGentry
Those kinds of requests mostly come from PR people, right?
- jjprojects
I don't retweet at all on principle. I love it when others do, though. I can see how this would become a problem. BTW, Chris -- I see you as a dude, not a number.
- Louis Gray
ack, sorry. i know i did this to you once. :( - although at least i did it in person and treated you like a human?
- Sarah is Novembery
Chris, unfollow them. Two people do that: people that are trying to game your reach and true friends who really need the help. Be more than happy to help a friend out and be more than happy to help the other "friend" out- right out the door.
- Damien Basile
...damn, i'd re-tweet, and re-friendfeed this, but I don't want to jacked up for doing it. @ChrisBrogan: perhaps, all the retweeters who are hitting you up feel like, with your help, they're standing on the shoulders of a social media giant. perhaps it's really a sign of respect.
- .LAG liked that
hah - two names immediately came to mind - interesting that one gets special treatment :)
- Allen Stern
you probably follow too many people. I understand you want to let people DM you, but it isn't realistic you're actually following them. Kinda robotic actually. Normal following counts would solve this problem for you, I bet.
- Ivan Kirigin
Chris you are an awesome dude, this must be very frustrating for you. This (2010 Web / Real Time Web) is new territory and people have new principles, values, and morals to learn / adopt. You are a magnet, you create great value, you have uncommon authority people covert that. Some of them who haven't yet considered and adopted sound 2010 Web principles, values, and morals may behave...
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- Deano @ Byron New Media
I'm so thankful I've never done that to you! I really wish Twitter would fix the DM problem - maybe give us a choice whether to accept DMs or not.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Interesting point! @iKirigin @Ed_Dale is adamant about having a minimal follow list while other guru's advise actively following people talking in your market. In this instance I can understand Ed's point. It's a tricky choice for those still building the critical mass of their tribe. @wordsforliving (Jannifer) that could be a solution, genuine DM is really handy at times even from...
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- Deano @ Byron New Media
Don't Blame you at all for being sick of it, or snapping on someone for it. It's all too common for people to do this though. One way that I've seen some people deal with it: every so often solicit things to retweet, and make it clear then to please not ask you to do this - you do it when you're feeling like it. Then hopefully only people who have some kind of news that urgently needs to be spread (i.e. twitter worm, FB worm, etc) call on you other times.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Anyone who directly solicits others to retweet what they write probably doesn't really mean very much of it anyway.
- Randy Holloway
does this happen because it's automated (i.e. Twitter allows someone to build a script for DM'ing people)? Also, if you don't follow that person, they can't DM you, right?
- Vincent van Wylick
Chris, I understand. This kind of behavior is an etiquette breach in real life and online. The standard quid pro quo isn't inherent in the situation. You RT, but what do you get in return? In real life, you would be compensated or some other value-added service would be given to you. Scammers on Twitter want everything for free. They may value your reach but they disrespect you. I've...
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- Christine Cavalier
Thing is, I love retweeting good information that is helpful to my community and I support many causes that can benefit from my network. Where I get pissy is when people ONLY hit me in DM when they need me to retweet.
- Chris Brogan
Ahh the old human trait, selfishness. Reminds me of a few of my 'friends' only talk when they want something.
- Mo Kargas
You could always just say "I'll retweet stuff I like so do NOT ask me for a Retweet."
- Scott Wilder
The worst are those people who are sending mass-DMs and asking for Re-Tweets. That is major fail.
- Curt Mercadante
Chris, right. I get mostly offended when it is a person I don't know at all. This is what is happening now with me: These spammy requestors get wise to my random RT policies, so they start to @ me and "engage" me in chitchat before they ask for another DM. By this point, their motivations are obvious. Without a solid policy, I have no way of avoiding this fake "buttering up." I'm sure...
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- Christine Cavalier
And thanks for bringing this up. The etiquette issue is good fodder for my blog.
- Christine Cavalier
I have a few people that do that. Funny thing is I know some of them in real life, but on Twitter, that's the only time I ever hear from them. It makes me think a lot less of them in real life.
- Jesse Stay
What's equally funny is that people get very upset when I call them on it. If I say, "it feels like you only talk to me when you need something," they get all defensive and "well, excuse me, mister popular!" . But that's because people only see with their own lens. If they have 1000 followers, it's manageable. It's not as scalable.
- Chris Brogan
But you are paid to do this, right? Why wouldn't people start treating you like that?
- Thom Kennon
Excellent :-), You should snap at them. The re-tweet is stupid. If it's interesting you'll discuss the ideas with them.
- Richard A.
I can't imagine asking someone to retweet something I'd posted. It's so... rude.
- Steve Ellwood
I guess it's hard for me to believe someone would dm you and ask for such a thing. wow
- Keith - @tsudo
@Thom - paid to do what? Use Twitter? Um, no. That'd be a gig!
- Chris Brogan
@Thom, people are certainly not offering payment for retweets. That's why asking for the favor is so rude. Most people don't ask strangers for big favors like that.
- Christine Cavalier
Wasn't Mike Arrington suggesting that RTs = Currency, and people will start paying for them? If they're going to be so rude as to constantly ask just because people have lots of followers, shouldn't they offer to pony up some $$$ ??
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Which bothers you more: receiving a DM to RT or being asked to RT regardless of DM? Sounds like it's the DM that bothers you.
- Ari Herzog
Talking about pay per blog posts e.g. Izea, and yes, in some cases, I reckon Tweets feed this and become amplifiers of that model.
- Thom Kennon
(I know you're asking Chris, but personally I don't like the being asked to RT so much - I don't mind when a person really needs a favor - it's the matter of someone asking me to RT something simply because of the number of followers - I can only imagine how much Chris must get)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@Thom - I don't get paid to tweet, but if you want to start, I'm in. I'm on the Advisory board of Izea, but it's not my full time job or something. I'm on about 6 advisory boards and none of them pay unless those guys get bought. Then? I get a pony. : )
- Chris Brogan
@AriHerzog is right. I loathe the DM aspect more than not.
- Chris Brogan
tell em chris, im ignoring about 1-2 dms a day now asking for a retweet. if you have to ask, i probably dont think its worth a RT ;)
- sean percival
Could not disagree more with the Radar's assessment of this new GOOG search feature from the labs. I think the concept and implementation are very limited.
- Randy Holloway
The same thing could have been said for many tech companies. One might even say it to Cisco re: collaboration software today. That doesn't mean that the companies should always listen.
- Randy Holloway
"Elements like these embedded on other pages around the web are the underwater portion of what you might call Google's iceberg strategy: a great deal of their usage is not on their own site, and so not measured by Comscore and others who measure search market share. In his keynote, Vic Gundotra mentioned that Google is now supporting more than 4 BILLION API calls daily across more than 60 different APIs."
- Anand Sharma
from Bookmarklet
It's amazing how this simple idea is hard for many to understand
- Anand Sharma
if it were like EC2, it'd all be proprietary, portability would be non-existent, & you'd have Google-lvls of reliability. not for me.
- Dave Graham
Part of the benefit of the cloud is in provisioning, scalability and reduced management costs. If you move that to your data center, will you still see those gains? Not sure it is really that "simple" until people can see it.
- Randy Holloway
"Iran's military has stationed mobile ground-to-air missiles along the Strait of Hormuz to protect the country's nuclear facilities, Arab media reported. The Saudi Arabian newspaper al-Watan quoted an Iranian official confirming the move, while an unnamed source said the missile batteries were deployed in response to reports the United States and Israeli were planning to launch attacks on nuclear sites, The Jerusalem Post reported."
- Bill Romanos
from Bookmarklet
Good thing we aren't completely dependent on oil from the Middle East. Just think if we were and a war broke out in the Straight of Hormuz. We'd be in big trouble ... wait ... doh!
- Dave Hodson
This isn't an option if you want to service Fortune 500 clients. You must offer professional services, even as a small Enterprise 2.0 co.
- Randy Holloway
from fftogo
"Ok, I'll bite. If this is true, then what is Google selling? They're selling ad impressions on our content as well, aren't they? How is this different/better/worse?"
- Randy Holloway
"What I've seen of Oracle (May They Remain Far From Me) is exactly 11.7 times worse than Siebel. I measured this very carefully." Brilliant.
- Randy Holloway
from fftogo
You got it. I am not sure what Larry plans on doing with Sun, but its obvious that the Big Enterprise Software vendor thing is wasteful and impractical. Larry has remade ORCL before, but now its a monstrously huge mess of products and companies, i would not want to take a chance with them.
- Tweet Feeds
Oracle is a very salesy culture, not engineering. This is really not a good fit at all. What's going to happen to SunLabs? Their Rock Processor? Their Systems Engineering? DTrace? ZFS? Is Larry just going to dump all of the hardware engineering? IBM was a much better fit, a better better steward of Java, understood hardware and systems engineering, had their own JVM engineers for Java, and so on. Man, this is almost as depressing as SGI getting bought by Rackspace.
- Ray Cromwell
Tudor, when do you think most good Sun engineers worked there?
- AC Delco
I am excited. Tomorrow afternoon another piece of the real-time web launches that I have been waiting for since November. It is so good I am running it on its own computer.
4pm PST means its a West coast company, maybe its Microsoft unveiling some streaming social software embedded in their OS? Oh the Google buying piece doesn't add up
- Sudha Jamthe
Scoble: I'm just giving you a hard time :)
- Eric Florenzano
I'm pretty sure I know what it is - I haven't seen it like Scoble though
- Jesse Stay
Robert - I love how even after all these years, you still get excited. It's one of your more endearing qualities. I've only been around since last July but no longer get excited LOL.
- Mona Nomura
Mona: when an entrepreneur or team gives me something I didn't have before I get excited.
- Robert Scoble
Ha! The Scoble Tease. I'm excited FOR you and no idea what it is. Now bring it on...
- Nakeva Corothers
Mona: I also like to see if I was right. Most of the time I am but Clikball is an example of something that looked more useful than it really was.
- Robert Scoble
An interesting thing is that a major component of cliKball is real-time.
- Eric Florenzano
Marshall: call me. You should be there.
- Robert Scoble
cliKball is great, just only if you have tons of free time to surf the web
- patrick
I'm mad at clikball - I can't delete it from Firefox. All my search results have Clikball results even after removing the extension.
- Jesse Stay
Hmm... I actually just uninstalled the clikball FF extension and no longer see the clikball results when searching on google.
- Kevin Whalen
Kevin I think I had an earlier version, probably why the uninstall didn't remove that for me.
- Jesse Stay
product teases are so fun ;) I hope it's at least as exciting as a bloomberg terminal..lol...And I note, you said ONE computer, and nothing about the number of screens....I sure hope they're beefed up for the Scoble Effect at release time.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm interested now, looking forward to the live stream.
- 321
Could it be Fluid Info? Robert interviewed Terry Jones, the president a while ago. The technology seemed very interesting... Let's see: Here is the Part I of the interview: http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
- Juan Pons
Juan: I really hope so! I'm very excited about Fluid Info.
- Eric Florenzano
Not that he would tell us if we guessed correctly...
- Juan Pons
Could it be Microsoft Office On the Web?
- Caleb Scribner
Is it the news thing you told me about that was supposed to launch in March?
- Francine Hardaway
Space debris tracking was my affirmative case in high school debate, in support of space exploration programs back in 1992.
- Randy Holloway
from fftogo
Important read on the health of our economy- wages are an important component. Would be interested to see the rise in executive pay in 1974 compared to median incomes.
- Randy Holloway
I think I'm more or less alone in liking the new Google favicon. Yet I hate the new Pepsi logo (but of course, I hate Pepsi, being an Atlantan). There's something about the amorphous asymmetry that annoys me (yes, I know the Google logo is asymmetric as well, but it seems ok somehow).
- Joel Webber
I could learn to like the Google favicon, though the 'vibration' caused by putting bright green and red together, and the altogether Christmasy feel of the right side are hard to ignore.
- Kevin Fox
I also like the new favicon (certainly far more than the lowercase blue-g version, at least). I think the middle image above actually looks more like a piece of the old Pepsi logo than the new one.
- Laurence Gonsalves
Great link between the images. Red and green, never thought of it but I made some observation, there's two sections of blue, which is a bit weird. And a lot of green compared to the yellow and red, probably to fit with those curves. (the bottom left corner of the upper part of the g)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I didn't like the original 'new favicon', but the current new one is so bad I finally started using the 'classic Google favicon' userscript.
- Andrew C
It would start by taking the MSN butterfly logo and swapping the position of the green and yellow bits...
- Andrew C
im more annoyed by the change (for no good reason?) than the design. i was so used to the old favicon that for a long time after they changed to the blue one, it took me a few seconds longer every time i was going back to the google results tab in the browser, because i kept looking for the tab with the old favicon every time.
- Lasse Johnsen
I'm of the opinion that good design is polarizing. It provokes conversation and interest. Take Nintendo's "Wii" for example. Almost everyone hated the name when they announced it, but now I can't imagine it being called anything else (and it certainly hasn't hurt sales).
- Jonathan Terleski
I don't think polarizing implies good design nor vice-versa.
- Andrew C
I actually kinda like the new Google favicon. At least more than the blue lowercase one. And maybe rather than 'like' I should say 'am used to,' since that was the extent of my feelings towards the initial Google favicon, too. I didn't particularly like it. I was just used to it, cuz it was the capital G. That's it.
- Chieze Okoye
Also, I don't think that design is good if and only if it's polarizing. I don't even know that I think that there is a causal relationship in either direction. I could get behind the idea that there is a correlation, but I've seen plenty of designs that are universally thought of as great (no polarization needed).
- Chieze Okoye
Aside from Mr. Akin's uninformed comments about Microsoft server infrastructure and odd comparison to OpenBSD, I agree with his thoughts on security fears re: the net.
- Randy Holloway