Comments on: Don’t Eat The Internet Marketing Brownies http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/internet-marketing-brownies/ Advice for Internet Marketers with Ethics Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:13:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/internet-marketing-brownies/#comment-423 Antone Roundy Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:07:05 +0000 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=173#comment-423 Antwan, I appreciate the comment, and have no qualms with anyone who sincerely feels that way. But I disagree. I don't believe that it's worth the horrendous amount of time it would take to comb through the tweets of 3000 people in the hope of someday finding something of value. I know for a fact that I wouldn't read that many tweets -- ever. So the real effect of "following" that many people would be that I wouldn't really be following anyone. Not much "common courtesy" in that, right? It just so happens that there are a select few people who I know I really do want to follow. I don't want their voices to be drowned out. Michel Fortin addresses these issues really well <a href="http://www.michelfortin.com/twitter-populated-drones-frauds/" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.michelfortin.com/autofollow-fiasco/" rel="nofollow">here</a> (highly recommended reading). Antwan,

I appreciate the comment, and have no qualms with anyone who sincerely feels that way. But I disagree.

I don’t believe that it’s worth the horrendous amount of time it would take to comb through the tweets of 3000 people in the hope of someday finding something of value.

I know for a fact that I wouldn’t read that many tweets — ever. So the real effect of “following” that many people would be that I wouldn’t really be following anyone. Not much “common courtesy” in that, right?

It just so happens that there are a select few people who I know I really do want to follow. I don’t want their voices to be drowned out.

Michel Fortin addresses these issues really well here and here (highly recommended reading).

]]> By: Antwan Leonard http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/internet-marketing-brownies/#comment-309 Antwan Leonard Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:13:48 +0000 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=173#comment-309 I've always thought following someone who follows you as just a sort of "common courtesy" on Twitter. Obvisously no one is truly following 3,000 people but who's to say you don't get a useful tweet from time to time from anyone of those 3,000. Isn't it worth it to follow 3,000 if just by pure chance you happen to notice a tweet from one of them that greatly benefits you? Marketing online is and always will be a numbers game, and working the numbers game on Twitter is just another resource. I’ve always thought following someone who follows you as just a sort of “common courtesy” on Twitter.

Obvisously no one is truly following 3,000 people but who’s to say you don’t get a useful tweet from time to time from anyone of those 3,000. Isn’t it worth it to follow 3,000 if just by pure chance you happen to notice a tweet from one of them that greatly benefits you?

Marketing online is and always will be a numbers game, and working the numbers game on Twitter is just another resource.

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