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Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care
From: Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:26:53 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 security curmudgeon wrote:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Paul M. Moriarty wrote: : Cringely? I agree. : : http://twitter.com/cringely : : He's what's referred to as a twitsnob. 1k followers but he only follows : 11 ppl. Now that would be a neat set of statistics: the # of twitter users, and how many each follow vs have following.
I have 243 followers and I'm only following 79 (a mix of security folks, friends, and pastors from related churches) On one of the Black SEO websites there is a thread about how you can use Twitter to drive traffic to your ads on websites. The fact that everyone uses "tinyurl" or equivalent means people are accustomed to going to any crap you send them, and the fact that its considered "rude" by some people not to "follow back", means that the SEO crowd makes money by having large followings. My general rule of thumb with "follows" is to visit their page - see if they post things I'm interested in, or just recite their lunch menu and plane schedule - and then whether they are following dozens or thousands. If someone is following 1,000 people, they clearly aren't reading what is posted, so they are probably just following me to bloat their number, so I tend to block them. If someone is following less than 100, they might actually care what I think, but even then I only "follow back" if they look interesting based on their posts. I default to "device follow", so I get twittered to my phone - but then when people go hugely off-topic for most of their posts (like Ryan during baseball season, or Gadi during alcohol) I turn off the device option. - -- - -------------- Gary Warner Director of Research in Computer Forensics The University of Alabama at Birmingham gar () cis uab edu gar () askgar com 205.934.8620 205.422.2113 Blog = http://garwarner.blogspot.com/ Home = http://www.cis.uab.edu/forensics/ - -------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJv91dg79eYCOO6PsRAhCKAJ47E1OdGPAANcxgu/8D9WMmOgroOgCfQXXP tDZ+BAQizfl3ZVCpmfF6Zl0= =rWjY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Donal (Mar 20)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Gary Warner (Mar 19)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Nick FitzGerald (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul Ferguson (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul M. Moriarty (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Nick FitzGerald (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care security curmudgeon (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Gary Warner (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Gadi Evron (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Jason Ross (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul Ferguson (Mar 16)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul M. Moriarty (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul M. Moriarty (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Gadi Evron (Mar 17)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Paul Ferguson (Mar 18)
- Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care Gadi Evron (Mar 17)