Twitter According To J-Mo (Some are not gonna like this)

[Jason Moffatt]

Originally Posted by remarkablogger

Twitter has this chameleon ability to be whatever you make it.

I agree, and all I was doing was giving my particular opinion since so many people were asking me. I wasn't expecting people to like it or agree with it. It's just how I personally feel on the issue.

[Jeremy Kelsall]

Dumb question here....

What the hell is the big deal?

People are getting up in arms about people following, not following, unfollowing, and a bunch of other moronic things.

What difference does it make?

I follow JMO, but does he follow me?

Nope

Do I care?

Nope

I follow him because he tweets stuff that entertains me and keeps me informed of things that I want to know about.

He doesn't know me on a "personal" level so, why would I expect him to respond to any message I sent him? He doesn't owe me anything...

The whole argument is ridiculous really. Twitter is free! Noone pays to use it, nobody is getting paid for participating, right?

The way some people describe it, Twitter is sounding more and more like a job than anything else. You have to return your messages, follow who follows you, or you could feel the wrath or the twitter masses? lol - the hell with that.

[Angela V. Edwards]

I agree with you, Jeremy. I don't use Twitter like I should; I rarely remember to even go there. LOL.

But this type of discussion reminds me of all the "this is why you're not my friend" threads that got started when we moved to this forum with the capability of having "friends" here. People were posting all the reasons why they did/didn't accept others adding them as friends.

I never did understand any of that stuff. I truly like people and I like getting to know new people. So I accept friend requests here. If I remembered to go to Twitter more often, I'd be following a lot more people too. But it's not a big deal if I follow who follows me and vice versa. It's just a website.

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Dumb question here....

What the hell is the big deal?

People are getting up in arms about people following, not following, unfollowing, and a bunch of other moronic things.

What difference does it make?

I follow JMO, but does he follow me?

Nope

Do I care?

Nope

I follow him because he tweets stuff that entertains me and keeps me informed of things that I want to know about.

He doesn't know me on a "personal" level so, why would I expect him to respond to any message I sent him? He doesn't owe me anything...

The whole argument is ridiculous really. Twitter is free! Noone pays to use it, nobody is getting paid for participating, right?

The way some people describe it, Twitter is sounding more and more like a job than anything else. You have to return your messages, follow who follows you, or you could feel the wrath or the twitter masses? lol - the hell with that.

[Steven Fullman]

Interesting.

So, you're too busy to follow a bunch of people who are pretty
much pre-sold on your every move...

...but you have enough time to record a video about how you're
too busy to follow a bunch of people who are pretty much pre-sold
on your every move.

Guess what, JMo? All your base are belong to us.

Steve

[Jeremy Kelsall]

When this thread is all the way said and done...there is one thing I would like to know....

How many new followers did Jason Get? I bet it is a ton...

Controversy sells, right?

[Steven Fullman]

Jeremy,

I'd MUCH rather follow you and Don.

Your course is superb. Warriors...cash in on JK's course (unsolicited testimonial)

Steve

[dhudiburg]

I see Twitter as doing two things very well for me. 1) It provides a way for me to share links, ideas, and updates very easily with people who want to know what's going on with me and 2) it is the best networking/JV tool I've used. By staying up with my close contacts on Twitter, when I have an appropriate project that I want to them to be involved with, I can start with a "warm" conversation. I already know what they are working on and they know what I'm working on -- it's not a phone call out of the blue.

I also use Twitter as a research tool to see what is hot in my niche, for that I need to follow lots of people.

So Twitter is both intimate and broad for me.

You can have both if you use TweetDeck and fine tune your groups right.

In think Jason is dead on though, it's not about how many people you follow or have following you, it's about being noteworthy.

[judyrey]

I find using social media to be very rewarding on a personal basis. I have been on Twitter for a tad over two weeks and have been inspired to write three blogs on the experiences I have had for the Art & Inspiration blog at Post Conceptual UnGraven Image

[blueberry]

It's a good thing I saw this before getting a Twitter account. It's too bad every "cool" new internet service gets so quickly infested with wrong-headed group-think on a mass scale, getting muddied in the process. Then, like everything else on the net, only a few are able to, or ultimately deserving of, the benefits of the thing...well...
Too bad they don't have another word other than "follow" for Twitter. I'll join to enhance my already small selection of regularly visited blogs and programs, but the idea of "following" for the most part does not appeal.
While watching the video, by the way, I thought of an old folk tune:

"Come follow, follow, follow, follow, follow, follow me!
Wither shall I follow, follow, follow, wither shall I follow
Follow thee?
To the greenwood, to the greenwood, to the greenwood,
Greenwood tree!"

Apropos of nothing! Folk song fans and UK people might recognize it...

Cheers!
blueberry

[Scott Woodside]

I like how you went to a vacant house just to get the echo effect in your video! Great idea.

[Jason Moffatt]

Originally Posted by Scott Woodside

I like how you went to a vacant house just to get the echo effect in your video! Great idea.

lol funny guy!

I had just moved in and had not unpacked yet. The place is looken stylen now!

[Scott Woodside]

Glad you got the humor. I was second guessing my post after I made it. I just deleted a bunch of morons that I clicked onto follow because they followed me. You're right. Lets follow people we respect and want to learn from not the idiots on twitter that are sitting around in their underwear trying to be successful. There' should be two buttons on Twitter: Button #1: Follow for knowledge. Button #2. I'm a sheep, can I follow you?

[Jason Moffatt]

I hate to break it to you Scott, but I'm currently sitting in my underwear while trying to set up CPA offers!

[BrianMcLeod]

Originally Posted by Jason Moffatt

I hate to break it to you Scott, but I'm currently sitting in my underwear while trying to set up CPA offers!

TMI JMO

Doug Tabor
Pearl, MS

[Dave Patterson]

Originally Posted by Jason Moffatt

I hate to break it to you Scott, but I'm currently sitting in my underwear while trying to set up CPA offers!

Uhhh....no video required.

Please.

[Chris W. Sutton]

I hate to break it to you Scott, but I'm currently sitting in my underwear

Jason has ALWAYS had a knack for giving out WAY too much information. I hate it when he puts these pictures in my head like that!

[Thomas Belknap]

Originally Posted by Chris W. Sutton

Jason has ALWAYS had a knack for giving out WAY too much information. I hate it when he puts these pictures in my head like that!

At least he didn't send you pictures in the mail. Man, I sweat with frightened anticipation every time I get the mail.

Please stop the bad man, Chris!

[danhughes]

Originally Posted by Thomas Belknap

At least he didn't send you pictures in the mail. Man, I sweat with frightened anticipation every time I get the mail.

Please stop the bad man, Chris!

Yeah, my wife found that one in the mail box! She called me on my cell and asked, "why is some guy from California sending you handwritten cards with a picture of him lying in bed?"

I told her to just google his name and she'd figure it out, lol!!!

[Chris W. Sutton]

All I can say is that you people are VERY lucky if you missed out on the video where Jason gets a procto exam. There as just some things that a person should keep to themselves and THAT was one of them!