Comments on: Guy Kawasaki is an Evil, Narcisisstic Spammer (or maybe not)

By: Robert Davis

Robert Davis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:04:54 +0000

Hey Rob – like most, Guy is an icon from several phases of my pre-social media career… from the Apple days to the fast company/web startup 1.0 era to today. However, lately Guy's tweet strategies have really been bugging me, and I think there are two factors not accounted for in the TI formula: to what extent do the links you post point only to your own company, and do you manage your own tweets. I was sad to find that (without quantifying, frankly) Guy's tweets more often than not point to Alltop, and what's more, he's got two staffers tweeting for him, as him, without disclosing it on Twitter.

And to your point, I am free to unfollow Guy, and I did – with a great deal of regret. As I say, the guys an icon – but in my very small opinion, an icon sporting some tarnish these days.

By: jestebanc

jestebanc — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:16:51 +0000

I would like my Twitisissm Score please.

Maybe this is something that could be automatically provided to people? http://www.twitisissm.com maybe?

By: Colin Doughan

Colin Doughan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:22:51 +0000

still interested in your thoughts on organizing Tweets using automation. good work. like the blog. as always you are a little over my head, but i think that is why i like you. keep it coming.

By: @kdoohan

@kdoohan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:58:03 +0000

Like it. Nice work. Especially appreciate the thought you three put into it.

The thing that bugs me is that so many of us have the need to classify users and uses of social media. “This is a bad use of Twitter”, “This is a good use of Twitter”, “this person has a high signal/noise ratio”, “that guy lives in the echo chamber”, “social media is clubby and exclusive (in a bad way), etc..

I think there is no “correct or appropriate” use of any of these tools. If you want to broadcast tweet..do it! If you want to have a conversation, cool. Everyone has the right to choose whether to follow me or not and I can use tools as I like. That’s the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) I like it (uh-huh, uh-huh).

Thanks for sharing. It made me curious what my score was. Which I guess is maybe an ego trap like @peterkim often refers to.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:31:31 +0000

I was asked what I thought a good score is. I think anything up to around 90 is fine. I do have concerns with people who have extremely high scores. There are those whose goal is to “get the most visitors”. I think that is twitisissm as it indicates they’re using twitter only to broadcast messages.