On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > How many people has this worked for? From what I understand, people > with a huge number of followers on twitter were already famous before > using twitter. > Is the goal here to win at twitter? Do you win by getting the most followers? As my good friend says: "it's not who follows you, it's who you follow." That's how to get the most value out of twitter (in his opinion, and in mine). As for being famous and having a ton of followers... That's how celebrity works. Also, I don't consider myself remotely famous, but I just crossed 600 followers, which is quite a bit more than the average joe has... so it is possible to grow your followers with time and hard work to engage others to give them value. That said, you are still welcome to build this service. I'm not sure most of us understand it exactly, but maybe once it is implemented we will "get it." That, and let the net decide. If people want to use it, they will... if not, they won't. Either way, it would probably be a fun exercise in programming and learning the API. -Chad p.s. This whole thread has been very entertaining, I must say. > > > > > > > But that's just the way I see it. > > > > -Stut > > > > -- > > http://stut.net/ > > http://twitter.com/stut > > > >>> > >>> Honestly though, this completely misses the whole point of Twitter. > >>> > >>> On Dec 8, 7:51 pm, "Amir Michail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Waitman Gobble > >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Well, if you're like me you don't really need any cheerleaders to > >>>>> fluff you up and get you going. I mean they're nice and all, but > >>>>> stubborn persistence regardless. > >>>> > >>>>> And besides, we'd not have much of this stuff if it weren't for > >>>>> some > >>>>> renegades with stubborn idears. You know, the Internet Cowboys. > >>>>> Guys > >>>>> who would crowbar their ways onto the rooftops of bank hi-rises > >>>>> just > >>>>> to set up satellite dishes and offer wireless internet when most > >>>>> people never even heard of broadband. Or rent a back hoe and chaw > >>>>> through public streets without permit to run copper. Back in the > >>>>> 1990's. Those types. Where would we be now? > >>>> > >>>>> The thing I'm missing in your proposal - I can't see the nookie. I > >>>>> mean, are users getting a higher quality of selection of tweets > >>>>> because you do the Turing exam? Or are they going to get more > >>>>> followers because you have a pool of twitters at the other end > >>>>> waiting > >>>>> for them? (because of the quality of feed). > >>>> > >>>> Suppose you have two twitter users who are each working on a web 2.0 > >>>> startup and would like to increase the number of their twitter > >>>> followers to better their chances of startup success. > >>>> > >>>> They could go to this service to increase their followers. > >>>> > >>>> So in using this service, they find each other. Even though they > >>>> don't necessarily want to increase the number of people they follow, > >>>> they might discover cool tweets that they would like to see anyway. > >>>> > >>>> And so they end up following each other, even though it was not > >>>> their > >>>> intent to follow more people. > >>>> > >>>> Amir > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Not cutting, just trying to understand. > >>>> > >>>>> Waitman > >>>> > >>>>> On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, "Amir Michail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Waitman Gobble > >>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>>>> ... > >>>> > >>>>>>> Anyways, back to the original topic. > >>>> > >>>>>>> I don't understand WHERE these "Them" are going to submit. (re: > >>>>>>> original post). I guess that's what I'm missing. > >>>> > >>>>>>> Waitman > >>>> > >>>>>> At the service using the twitter API that I'm thinking of > >>>>>> building. I > >>>>>> didn't realize this idea was so difficult to understand though. > >>>>>> Maybe > >>>>>> I shouldn't even try... > >>>> > >>>>>> Amir > >>>> > >>>>>>> On Dec 8, 5:54 pm, Cameron Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>>>>> It's because people who are new, or considered new due to few > >>>>>>>> posts, are > >>>>>>>> automatically put in the moderation queue. > >>>>>>>> spam, which I'm sure > >>>> > >>>>>> --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp://numbrosia.comhttp > >>>>>> ://t... > >>>> > >>>> --http://b4utweet.comhttp://chatbotgame.comhttp:// > >>>> numbrosia.comhttp://twitter.com/amichail > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> http://b4utweet.com > >> http://chatbotgame.com > >> http://numbrosia.com > >> http://twitter.com/amichail > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://b4utweet.com > http://chatbotgame.com > http://numbrosia.com > http://twitter.com/amichail >
