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Human3rror : Ipseity Personal Branding Wordpress Theme

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:26:09 +0000

Sporting the Ipseity theme over here: http://DrSteveBradley.com Seems to be working great! Will give you some link love on twitter as well. Thanks John.

ChurchCrunch : The Twitter Fallout: Managing the Un-Follow Armageddon and Creating a New Strategy

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:02:40 +0000

Here's the strategy I've been using of late... I don't auto-follow, but check my followers list every couple of days (get an average of 20-30 new followers a day). I follow back all "real" people, i.e., those where a real person seems to be manning the ship. If I know them or share a common interest with them I send them a personal DM as well (crafting it not to look like an auto-response DM). I don't follow back obvious bot or spammy looking accounts, but leave them be. For porn or otherwise offensive followers, I block them - not sure if this helps to stem the tide of attracting others, but it at least gets my face off of their own twitter home page. Have noticed that spammy / porn related followers come in waves - e.g., got about 40 of the same string of porn followers you show on Tony's twitter home page the past couple of days. Hoping that blocking them discourages other similar accounts from following. Not sure if it actually works or not (anyone have a way to measure/verify this sort of thing?), but the waves do seem to subside once I've gone on a blocking spree...

ChurchCrunch : My Personal Twitter Meltdown

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:00:34 +0000

Dude, that's a riveting video, btw ;-) I've never auto-followed back - but I do go in every couple of days and manually follow back every "real" follower...aka non-nekkid, non-forex trading, non-explode your follower count promising, non-guaranteed money making tip giving folks. Also found that waiting a day or two to follow-back causes the really impatient spammers to drop off on their own...