Comments on: When False Metrics Distract You From Success

By: Do You Know Who Is Watching? | Uptown Uncorked

Do You Know Who Is Watching? | Uptown Uncorked — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:05:19 +0000

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By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:25:52 +0000

I remember how happy I was to see you, Mona N, Pea and others over on Twitter. I don’t hate on FriendFeed, but it’s nice to have a way to find you all in both places. And what I notice are your names and what you are saying to each other and to me, not the numbers. I’m just as happy to find value from someone who’s “Twitter ratio” is 2/2 or 2/1 as I am someone who is at Scoble or Brogan levels. More importantly, I’m MORE likely to GIVE value if I talk to people, not look to the side and count.

By: Rahsheen

Rahsheen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:10:09 +0000

Great post. This is something that always bothers me. I don't care if your next tweet is your 10,000th, nor do I give a crap if you are 1 follower from 1,000. I was happy to see my follower count growing because it was a direct result of me actually having conversations. The fact that more people were following me told me that I was having interesting conversations and talking about things they wanted to hear. This was after hating on Twitter for quite a while and being pretty much absent from the community there. Rahsheens last blog post..Twitter Users Cling to It Like a Safety Blanket

By: Tweetworks

Tweetworks — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:41:07 +0000

Your Followers Are NOT Following You: So Maybe It’s Time to Change What You Focus On…

“What are you doing?” has morphed into “What do you want to talk about?” and this means we need to move the focus away from this artificial follower construct to a new model which focuses on the conversation. Consider for a mome…

By: geechee_girl (Leslie Poston)

geechee_girl (Leslie Poston) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:33:28 +0000

Interested in your thoughts on my theory of false metrics http://tinyurl.com/9gsh55