Comments on: The Guy Kawasaki Firehose, AKA, His Twitter Feed https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:39:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: VlogHog https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25082 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:44:48 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25082 Had an intereting experience on Twitter? Still waiting.

]]> By: shmula (shmula) https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25081 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:39:30 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25081 @michaelpinto would love your thoughts on this http://is.gd/fxMX and this http://is.gd/gui6 – we think alike…

]]> By: shmula (shmula) https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25080 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:09:46 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25080 @Jesse — a tweetback could count as a vote, you just have to make it 1 tweetback per IP; look at these http://is.gd/fxMX as a model

]]> By: Matt May https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25079 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:14:41 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25079 Besides the fact that the math seems, um, way off, I’m not sure why this is a seemingly big issue. I follow Guy because I know he’s always on the move, scanning new stuff, bringing it to my attention, and yes, promoting. I happen to find that interesting. I think the whole point of Twitter is to follow people you’re interested in, for whatever reason. There’s no objective value. (Why do people read People magazine?) Most importantly, I find Guy practices exactly what he preaches. I learn a lot from his techniques. Case in point: in his innovation talks, he preaches emotional polarization. Make people love or hate, but a shoulder shrug gets you nowhere. Pretty obvious there’s no shoulder shrug here.

]]> By: Joe Schmitt https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25078 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:18:28 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25078 Guy’s response: “I believe you can tweet the same thing during these times and not have a problem in most cases. It’s not unlike CNN running the same story over and over during the day”

OK, let’s say Guy is right. Then Guy is a news feed, not a person. And him giving advice on how to do Twitter to the people with a hundred or so followers makes no sense then. Most people on Twitter can’t keep followers by being a news feed. Most people on Twitter are connected to so few people that repeating themselves is pointless because many of their followers read every tweet.

Guy’s advice boils down to this – when you become famous and have thousands, this is how you do it. Why do people follow? Maybe because they like the idea that they will someday be famous and have to make these decisions. Probably why they like Trump too. It’s daydream and ambition.

And again, I am no fan of Guy, but it is unfair to compare him to Trump. Trump is an idiot, whereas Guy is very smart. I know that. I just don’t agree with Guy on this little matter of Twitter. I bring up Trump because they have similar appeal, not similar skills or styles.

What I can say that I’ve learned is that while Guy is correct about there being time of day crowds and retweeting so each crowd sees your message makes a certain amount of sense, he is missing an essential difference between a broadcast medium where you can only see it right now and you have to pay attention, and a medium in which everything is recorded and you can go back after the fact. Twitter is all recorded. If you have a high signal-to-noise ratio (meaning fewer, meaningful tweets – some people have used this term here, but got it backwards), then people will go back and read everything. In October I tweeted 100 times per day and people only kept up with what I tweeted right then. When I cut back to 15-20 per day, people actually go back and read every tweet. Not every person, but lots. And I can tell, because they respond to me or favorite them hours later. And this is true for anyone who has little to no noise in their tweet stream. And most people without a large following will find they will build a stronger connection to their followers by having a higher signal-to-noise ratio than a low one.

Finally, if you look at the members of broadcast mediums like @ColonelTribune, @maddow, and others, you will not find them retweeting themselves all day. They tweet something once. It’s true they do not engage their followers either, but they don’t flood their timelines with reruns.

OK, now back to the jokes for me. I’m @joeschmitt

]]> By: Steven Fisher https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25075 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:37:27 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25075 I follow Kawasaki because I find enough quite a few of his tweets interesting. I don’t really know about the other 46,999.

On the other hand, I don’t follow some of the other popular folks because I think they’re boring, assholes, or some combination of the two.

I’m capable of deciding who i want to follow on my own.

]]> By: Guy Kawasaki https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25074 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:32:19 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25074 Mark,

Thanks! I don’t know why people get so bent when I say Twitter is a weapon for me. I don’t get bent when they say they just want to know when their friends cats roll over or the line at Starbucks is long. 🙂

Guy

]]> By: Guy Kawasaki https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25072 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:24:08 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25072 Joe,

The volume of tweets means that there are really several different Twitter audiences during the day. Definitely, there’s a morning crowd, an after-dinner crowd, and a night-owl crowd.

I believe you can tweet the same thing during these times and not have a problem in most cases. It’s not unlike CNN running the same story over and over during the day.

Guy

]]> By: Lucretia Pruitt https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25077 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:19:11 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25077 Firstly? A couple of items you should note:
1) Twitter only archives 3,200 tweets at present. You can only go back 50 pages on the website (at 20 tweets per page) or 1,000 tweets.

2) Noise to some is signal to others. There are no “rules” on Twitter that say one must use it in a particular way. You get to control your Twitter experience. If you are looking for informational links? Guy’s stream is amazing. If you are looking for 1-to-1 communication? Perhaps not as much as others. If you are looking to know where you coworkers or family members are or what they are doing? Not at all.

That said – I’m no Guy Kawasaki – but I update way more often than he does. Some people hate the way I use Twitter: they don’t follow me. Those who do? Tell me not to change.

Twitter is something you figure out your own comfort level with.

]]> By: Duc https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25076 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:15:22 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25076 While I agree that there are a lot of people on Twitter with nothing much to say, I have found that following people like Guy has helped me professionally. As a marketer, people like @guykawasaki @armano @jowyang and @scobleizer offer endless insight to what’s going on in the marketing world.

At first, I thought that their tweets were overwhelming to follow, but then I discovered Tweetdeck and have placed these guys into my Marketing group so I wouldn’t lose track of tweets from my friends which I have put into their own group. I also have a News feed group to further organize my incoming tweets. Twitter has helped me more than any other social media tool ever has.

]]> By: Mark Drapeau https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25073 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:26:22 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25073 Guy – You are completely right about the “different crowds.” I recycle my very good/informative tweets in that way. I nom’d you for a Shorty if for no other reason than for, “Twitter is a weapon.” Brilliant (and this is from a guy who works for the military as a science consultant and writer!)

]]> By: Joe Schmitt https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25071 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:10:31 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25071 I think someone has mentioned it, but Guy has been on Twitter a lot longer. However, you are dead on about the garbage tweets. He even talks about recycling his own tweets and how it’s a feature, not a bug:

I among others took exception to this, and heard about it from many Guy disciples. Our complaint was that he was telling people to be more spam and robot like.

But really, advice from Guy about Twitter seems besides the point. Guy was famous before Twitter, so people were going to follow him no matter what. It’s exciting when someone famous follows you, and all you need to do to get him to follow is to follow him first. He follows everyone back.

But so what? He isn’t listening to all 49,000 people he’s following. Basically if they don’t mention him, or aren’t on some short list, he isn’t responding. It’s pretty empty following. And yet Guy is considered some kind of Twitter guru.

I suppose it’s not unlike Donald Trump being considered some great businessman. Right. The guy starts out with $100 million from his father. That’s just like what the rest of us face. And Donald has had more than one of his companies file for bankruptcy. Maybe the analogy doesn’t work – Guy is no Trump-like idiot.

Of course, what do I know? I’m just there for the jokes. I’m @joeschmitt

]]> By: Myron Tay https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25067 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:18:58 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25067 Well, Guy is like the boingboing of twitterville.

]]> By: Yvonh https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25066 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:05:44 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25066 Guy Kawasaki is a famous person, so he naturally has a lot of followers, he is using Twitter to promote his own business. I followed him before but unfollowed for the same reason than you. he is like a fortress, unreachable. So he is not interesting to follow. He only uses the microblogging aspect of Twitter, not the chatting aspect.

]]> By: Bill https://6sigma.com/my-experience-with-twitter-part-1/#comment-25064 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:41:45 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=900#comment-25064 Nice huge obtrusive Yahoo ad in the middle of your post. Who is going to blog complaining about that?

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