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Speaking truth insistently can also lose you plenty of Twitter followers

The Great Twitter Unfollow Experiment of 2011: "This week, I unfollowed everyone on Twitter. That was over 131,000 people. I didn’t do it manually, but rather, with some help (ask @jesse, if you need custom help like that). My reason was that I’d started receiving over 200 direct message spams a day. (These messages said things like “lol, look at this funny photo,” with a link that would enslave my account to send similar messages.)"


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President Obama actually does not care about winning in 2012

The GOP would like to believe Obama cares about winning

That he is being political by advocating that his people Tweet common sense to the GOP

In point of fact the President is so Zen that he really does not care if he wins or not

He is in it for the life whatever that turns out to be

When the President uses the word politics it is a disparaging term for playing games with what is reasonable and just

If what he thinks is reasonable today proves impossible tomorrow he changes course

The GOP will yell flip flop

He will brush them from his lapel

I still think the President will win this fight

But do not underestimate his enemy

These are genuinely true believer types of the sort Eric Hoffer wrote of in his classic treatment

History will adjudge them crazy and deluded win or lose

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Could Twitter evaporate in a Google+ wave

Elgan: Why Twitter is obsolete - Computerworld

The author of the linked piece thinks so.

My own observation is that people seem to have found ways of building followings that have nothing to do with actual interest or personal decisions. When I was building a following it was by hand step by step. It has been eclipsed by the users of various services. In this sense Facebook is the preferable option for social networking. There I at least know the people I see. I have no idea whether Google+ will eclipse either.



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