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Re: MEDIAdeluge - New Media Recruiting

Optimisation — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:17:57 -0000

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Re: Marketing to Millennials

Fabric banner — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:12:27 -0000

Oh I'd love to hear more about it. And maybe this book that you're suggesting should be the first thing I'm reading when it comes to business. Thank you for the support.

Re: Marketing to Millennials

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Very nice. I love to hear more about this on here. Marketing at its raw form, really amazes me. So many things go into it and it's very hard to succeed but doing it the right way at the right time never fails.

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Re: What Columbine Taught me about Crisis Communications

melissaanderson — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:55:01 -0000

I'm remembering those days and how hard you all worked and how tired you were. Lets pray another tragedy doesn't arise for people to learn the skills that you all learned. I know how hard this day is for you so thank you for your insight. You’re still my hero and it still makes me cry.

Re: iPhone 3-Way Calling (Merge Calls)

Christian Anderson — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:35:35 -0000

That's great news! Did it work? Are you all fixed up? Strange that people are still having this problem with their iPhones.

Re: iPhone 3-Way Calling (Merge Calls)

febailey — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:05:16 -0000

Thanks you, I appreciated! I am calling At&T right now : )

Re: iPhone 3-Way Calling (Merge Calls)

Christian Anderson — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:37:42 -0000

That is great news! Glad it worked. 3-way calling on the iPhone is great -- especially when it works.

Re: iPhone 3-Way Calling (Merge Calls)

anon — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:27:30 -0000

I just used your "guide"... fixed my 3 way calling problem!

Re: iPhone 3-Way Calling (Merge Calls)

Christian Anderson — Sun, 24 May 2009 01:56:19 -0000

Glad it helped! I only wrote it because I couldn't find any posts about it when I had the problem. Please let me know how it goes for you.

Christian

Re: iPhone 3-Way Calling (Merge Calls)

erinblythe — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:10:31 -0000

have the same problem! will call at&t and let you know if it works. thanks for the article.

Re: What Columbine Taught me about Crisis Communications

SandyJK — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:55:15 -0000

Grateful to get/read your ant's eye perspective on this crisis while I'm in Denver today. Thanks for revisiting Columbine via writing this post Christian....now I have even more insight on why you're so good at what you do.

Re: Twitter's Biz Stone on The Colbert Report

Christian Anderson — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:41:24 -0000

As a new company/site/offering, PR is great. A lot of positive coverage is even better, but only to a point. You want buzz, not deafening cacophony. You only get one chance with new users so you want your user base to build over time -- both from a scalability perspective AND and the UX side. I think I need to write a post about this :)

Thanks for the comment!

Re: Twitter's Biz Stone on The Colbert Report

Robby Macdonell — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:35:37 -0000

That's a really interesting point, I know I had personally be getting a little overwhelmed with all the coverage, but I had always assumed that the all PR was great for them (assuming they can scale up to meet all the attention, technically).

As a fairly long-time user, I find a lot of value in it, but I have gotten to the point where I NEVER want to hear anyone talk about it anymore (proof: http://www.flickr.com/photo... ). I can see media-saturation creating a not-living-up-to-the-hype scenario for people just being introduced to the idea of it. I wonder at what point does all of that start to negatively affect the existing user-base?

Re: Media on Twitter

Christian Anderson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:33:08 -0000

100% agree. I am very serious that if you are considering a PR firm, ask them about Twitter. Of course it matters what industry you're in, but as a rule, you can tell a lot about a PR person's approach just by getting their take on Twitter.

Re: Media on Twitter

barryhurd — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:11:13 -0000

It is amazing the number of PR "professionals" that do not even know what Twitter is. Using online tools I can tell you what many professionals do for a hobby, where they like to eat, family members, important dates... the list goes on and on.

As an outreach tool, Twitter is simply one of the most worthwhile technologies there is.

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Twitter is for Microblogging

Christian Anderson — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:05:08 -0000

You know, I owe my microblogging to you. I didn't really start in earnest until you helped my link my Facebook status updates to my Twitter account a year or so ago. Thanks, Grimes. As always, you rock!

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Yarri = Spam: Note to Emerging Social Networking Sites, This is Bad

Tim — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:08:10 -0000

Everyone,
Are you all going to complain or are you going to DO SOMETHING?
Yaari's practices are not just unethical they are ILLEGAL.
They contravene the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conl...

1) Go to the FTC page http://www.ftc.gov/spam/
2) Click on "File a Complaint" (on the left column).
It's a bit slow so be patient.
3) Click on "FTC Complaint Assistant" (On the right)
4) Is your complaint concerning identity theft - NO (hit next)
5) Dissatisfaction with other Business Practices (hit next)
6) Select "Internet" and "Other Internet Practices" (hit next)
7) I have a complaint about my options (or lack of) for protecthing my privacy online. (you can also select option 1 if you have children in your email list). (hit next).
8) Do you know the name of the company (Yes) (hit next)
For the company details enter www.yaari.com. You can use Prerna@yaari.com for the email. (Just put zero dollars).
For Step 5, I put the following in the additional info
"This company is a social networking site. They contacted me by sending an invitation that impersonated the email identity of someone known to me. After signing up on their site http://www.yaari.com I found out that they take all of the addresses from my email address book and send invitation emails to each contact that claim to be from me. I believe that this practice contravenes the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act."

-- Please don't just grumble. Make a difference: File a complaint with the FTC.
Tim

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Twitter vs Plurk

Christian Anderson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:47:10 -0000

Related comments on SocialMedian are below.

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Comments (18)
Adamant1988
7 days ago

I've been testing plurk out and highly enjoying the experience. Plurk lacks in the extensibility of twitter, but I suspect that's something that can be worked around.

Techn0tic
6 days ago

I'm not convinced by Plurk as yet, FriendFeed seems to be the more natural (or at least more established) alternative but seeing as both Jaiku and Pownce have been making headway in this space, Plurk has a lot of competing to do and I noticed the service stuttering a bit today with all of the new signups. Having said all of that, Twitter continues to be hugely popular and even despite their best efforts, even Twitter themselves don't seem to be able to force a mass exodus to other services (except when they need somewhere to complain about Twitter being down)

Smc2911
6 days ago

I signed up last night and further twitter problems (the api seemed to be crippled and so twhirl wasn't working) meant I spent quite a bit of time plurking. I liked it!

Karen
6 days ago

I've found plurk interesting but still find twitter most compelling.

Carruthk
6 days ago

plurk is ok but I still prefer the way the messages stream past you in twitter

Javurek
6 days ago

Timeline idea is great, but I hope Twitter will sort out its problems. imho Plurk is just a fad, but timeline interface is here to stay.

Adityakelkar2000
6 days ago

Really liked the interface. haven't used it though.

Moz Tom
6 days ago

Plurk has no API, @Smc2911, and I think that we can agree that means it is very useless. They also do not support comments on their blog posts (twitter does), and don't link to their get satisfaction page (twitter does). I don't think Plurk's gonna last, it is very reminiscent of "xanga", and from the random selection of users on the front page, many underage, I think that's the only crowd it's going to appeal to.

Devilinthedetails
6 days ago

Seriously? YOu're talking about a service that won't render it's timeline in Firefox? As Moz Tom says there is no API, which means that in order to use it I have to run Firefox (for everything else) and IE for Plurk. Not gonna happen.

Cosmichog
6 days ago

Good overview of twitter and plurk here, at www.jonbishop.org Check it out. (Jon's a friend of mine who has a good working knowledge of both).

Geek Mommy
6 days ago

Plurk is really good for conversations - but not really good for microblogging. The formats are different. While the mobile site (http://www.plurk.com/m/) is really slick and great from a smartphone browser, it's still a different experience than Twitter. Since Robert Scoble has already declared that it holds no allure for him, and Kevin Rose has said that the Kevin Rose on plurk is not him - I suspect it won't prove a Twitter-killer. But that doesn't mean something else won't.

Snoop Bloggy Blog
6 days ago

I usually use Twitter and Pownce but they both give me headaches. I mess around with Plurk.

Jasongoldberg
5 days ago

I'll be a slow mover off twitter. I'd rather root for them to get their act together than rush to the next cute kid on the block.

Christiananderson
5 days ago

Plurk won't kill Twitter for several reasons: plurk does not have open APIs Plurk does not have a desktop app plurk does not lend itself to mobile updates plurk does not have the community plurk does not allow links in profiles plurk does not support porting contacts from Twitter plurk is pissing off robert scoble This could all change, but it would have to happen soon to leverage current interest.

Jimwu
5 days ago

What about Pownce?

Ryangraves
5 days ago

Agreed, why haven't people jumped to Pownce very quickly.

M Barger
5 days ago

LAME-O! Plurk has decided to forbid people and also highly recommend against the things I find very helpful about Twitter! Twitter does have problems, but one of the things I like about it, is it's ability to connect me with like-minded (ie techie) people. Plurk has no search feature to help me connect, and advises "Only add people who are your good buddies. Don't add people you met for 3 minutes at a party." Dudes! Your missing the point!

Nishith
5 days ago

Interesting UI. I'm game to trying new social apps. The problem though is that they don't give me any instant gratification unless I patiently hang out over there and create my friends' network. Hope the recent initiatives like friend connect etc goes mainstream soon.

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Twitter Killer... Or, is Twitter Already Dead?

Christian Anderson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:38:44 -0000

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Comments (6)
Jillmwo
1 day ago

Blaming Twitter for scaling in popularity beyond the tolerance of its architecture seems somewhat foolish. They are working on the problem. Wait and see if they do fix it before you pass judgement on the service.
Blaming Twitter for scaling in popularity beyond the tolerance of its architecture seems somewhat foolish. They are working on the problem. Wait and see if they do fix it before you pass judgement on the service.

Jacklhasa
1 day ago

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Christiananderson
23 hours ago

@jillmwo I'm not blaming Twitter for its problems scaling, although, people are speculating as to why it has been such a big and ongoing problem. For Twitter, the day is fast approaching where the community will look elsewhere. My contention is that it already has. Sure people will stay on Twitter in the short term, but only until a critical mass of the community aggregates somewhere else. that is part of the reason Plurk is getting so much attention and why people are trying to make FriendFeed work a bit more like Twitter. The above post was not about blaming Twitter for its lack a scalability. it was about the community leaving because of the lack of scalability.

Geek Mommy
20 hours ago

I don't necessarily agree that the community leaves due to lack of scalability - it's leaving because the scalability issues aren't being mitigated by a good Community Evangelist. While Twitter has upped their communication regarding their issues, the feeling that they're invested in not losing their users still isn't being communicated. A little effort in that regard goes a long way.
I don't necessarily agree that the community leaves due to lack of scalability - it's leaving because the scalability issues aren't being mitigated by a good Community Evangelist. While Twitter has upped their communication regarding their issues, the feeling that they're invested in not losing their users still isn't being communicated. A little effort in that regard goes a long way.

Christiananderson
12 hours ago

Geek Mommy nails it. Twitter, we love you and don't want to leave you, but you seem to almost be pushing us away. just tell us what we want to hear and we'll stay... for a while. You're right, Twitter is in dire need of some communications counsel. They got a bit more transparent with the cause of the downtime and issues they were/are having, but that is not enough. Twitter, treat us like you like us. Tell us when you're having a problem, let us know what the plan is. reassure us.
Geek Mommy nails it. Twitter, we love you and don't want to leave you, but you seem to almost be pushing us away. just tell us what we want to hear and we'll stay... for a while. You're right, Twitter is in dire need of some communications counsel. They got a bit more transparent with the cause of the downtime and issues they were/are having, but that is not enough. Twitter, treat us like you like us. Tell us when you're having a problem, let us know what the plan is. reassure us.

Willem
10 hours ago

Isn't it the way things go since the Twitter's primary community is made up of early adopters? New services more innovative keep making up the Web trends and though geeks keep it moving, testing, etc.
Isn't it the way things go since the Twitter's primary community is made up of early adopters? New services more innovative keep making up the Web trends and though geeks keep it moving, testing, etc.

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Twitter Killer... Or, is Twitter Already Dead?

Christian Anderson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:59:10 -0000

Related comments from FriendFeed resulting from my Tweet on the subject:

Duncan Riley, Steve Rubel, Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble, and others weigh in...

http://friendfeed.com/e/0b8...

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Twitter Killer... Or, is Twitter Already Dead?

Christian Anderson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:41:42 -0000

Thanks, Tony, for reading and the thoughtful comment. It is early, but that is the only time to make bold proclamations. hopefully i am wrong. I too have heard that the API numbers are off the chart, but its not the nearness of FriendFeed in users that worries me for Twitter (I'm not sure FF can ever blow up and go mainstream the way Twitter seems to be). What makes me think Twitter could be dead already is the shallowing of the curve.

With the every early adopter Influential on the planet already on Twitter and pubs like BW (http://www.businessweek.com... writing about Twitter, i would expect the growth curve to be getting steeper, not shallower.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Twitter fan. I'm even quoted in the BW story raving about Twitter.

I want Twitter to succeed, but with its continued downtime prompting TechCrunch and others to write about Twitter being up (http://www.techcrunch.com/2... is one more indicator that Twitter may be beyond the point of no return.

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Twitter Killer... Or, is Twitter Already Dead?

Tony Wright — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:23:01 -0000

Hrm, seems early to make such a declaration. I've heard rumors that Twitters API traffic is 20x plus their web traffic, so if that were reflected on your compete graph the distance FriendFeed has to eat up is pretty daunting. I've seen lots of complaint but I've yet to see a single person that i actively follow jump ship (tho a few people are fiddling with Plurk).

In the meantime, FriendFeed is listening to their users... But there's always the big question in product development-- do you serve the users you have (power users) or do you build for the ones you DON'T? FriendFeed is getting complex (and powerful)... Last time I went, I was confused as hell.... It was from a link from Steve Rubel: http://friendfeed.com/searc... - Why is the same article on the page 3 times? Baffling.

Twitter will stay simple, get things solid, and win the day!

Re: MEDIAdeluge - Twitter vs Plurk

Christian Anderson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:12:53 -0000

great thoughts! thanks so much for contributing. please comment often. maybe even guest post?

i was kicking around a follow-up post. i think i will go ahead with it. it should address several of the points you raise.

christian