Comments on: All The Twitty Girls

By: Brad Marley » Blog Archive » Five and One With Laura Scholz, Scholz Communications

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:06:54 +0000

[...] it comes to stating the perceived “importance” of sites like Twitter, I can be pretty cynical. While there’s no doubt of the role it plays in the life of a communications professional, [...]

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:41:33 +0000

Jon -
Yep. And the reason they are being retweeted is not because their followers find the content valuable, but because their followers want to name drop.
It’s kind of like if I happened to run into a celebrity talking on their cell phone and I heard their phone conversation, then bragged to my friends that I heard the conversation. I’m only informative by association.

By: jon

jon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:51:20 +0000

This made me smile. I think you’re spot on. Even outside the cool-o-sphere it’s pretty hard to get noticed by some of the A-list B2B tweeters. If that isn’t an oxymoron.
I think my biggest gripe is that some of these guys get something retweeted a zillion times just because they are, well, big on twitter.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:47:24 +0000

You make a good point about the number of followers. That didn’t factor into the popularity idea; it was more along the lines of ‘Great, here we go again.’
But if, like you suggest, we eliminate the the number of followers, we can (hopefully) eliminate the popularity contest aspect of Twitter.
Let’s face it: that’s why these women were chosen for the article.

By: Kirsten Wright

Kirsten Wright — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:31:41 +0000

Brad – Great points to the article. Just reading the intro made my skin crawl thinking about high school again (I was always terrified of the populars)…and then when I saw the connect, wow.
You are dead on with this one and is just one more reason I think the followee/follower numbers should be made private. Let twitter use them so they can stop spammers, but keep it private from the public eyes. Numbers never make friends.
Luckily, there are groups of people on twitter who do use it for good, understand the value and are treating it like business, not High School. Too bad Vanity Fair doesn’t get it.