Normally, I don’t care when I get followed by Twitter spam accounts, because Twitter is the one social media platform where users are still basically in control of their own attention. As long as I don’t follow a spammer back, I run very little risk of ever having to see their pointless b.s. in my [...]
Awhile back, I pointed out what Mashable wasn’t telling you about Facebook. Now Compete is getting in on the action with a comprehensive data analysis of the qualitative differences between Twitter and Facebook. Which would be great… except it makes broad statements without explaining why it came to those conclusions. Here are the study’s four [...]
Continue reading about Debunking Yet Another Twitter Vs. Facebook Study
I’ll admit it: sometimes, I tweet multiple links to the same blog post. So do you. So does everyone (who wants to be read). But I’ve stopped doing something that seemed like a good idea at the time but which, in retrospect, really pissed me off even as I was doing it: I stopped prefacing [...]
Continue reading about Bad Twitter Habits: The Case Against Saying “In Case You Missed It”
Twitter is not Facebook. By and large, Facebook is the people you know, or used to know, or forgot about until they found you (again). Twitter is a more vague, more surprising, less personal and ultimately arbitrary collection of people you may or may not know, but who still add value to your day — [...]
Continue reading about The 10 Reasons Anyone Follows Anyone on Twitter
Last week, Ian M. Rountree and I started Read It All Week, a challenge to read everything we were subscribed to — especially all the blogs we so easily subscribe to, but never actually absorb. We did this for two reasons: To reconsider why we subscribe to certain kinds of media, and To learn how [...]
