Will Oprah Bring Out The Twitter Fail Whale?
Oprah is set to talk about Twitter tomorrow and do her first Tweet…
So will we see this all day?
Or This…
or nothing at all?
My bet is the service will grind to a halt and the Whale will be out in full force.
Let me know your thoughts: @trafficisgold.com
My New Twitter Policy
New Twitter Policy goes into effect today. If you have the default Twitter icon 
or a locked account (and I don’t personally know you) I will not follow you back. How hard is it to upload an image of yourself or your company’s logo? It’s not. If you don’t want your picture up there because you are insecure then go make an avatar. Don’t want your picture up on Twitter because you’re managing a business account, cool, put up your company logo.
When I see the default logo 95% of the time it’s a spam account. The other 5% is split between people who just joined Twitter to join and complete newbies. I have nothing against newbies at all. I actually welcome them with open arms and want to help them get the most out of Twitter. I am happy to follow, just show some respect for the Twitter community and fully update your profiles. Otherwise what’s the point?
Twitter Auto DMs Suck
The abuse of the Twitter Direct Message (DM) functionality has always been an issue with Twitter. However, as my follower count grows so does the constant barrage of useless and annoying Auto Direct messages. The idea of someone trying to sell sell me an e-book or whatever, before any kind of relationship has been established seems silly and wrong. Anyway, here is a video I made regarding Twitter and Auto DM’s.
Found this great post by Robert Scoble , Love his number 8, which states:
8. I can’t put an auto answer onto DM’s so that I can tell you to get a clue and to send me email instead.
Sprint Ad with a Twitter Call Out
I saw this ad last night and the Twitter call out (00:33 in) was pretty cool. Nice work to the folks at Sprint.
Twitter Is Down For Unscheduled Maintenance
“Twitter is currently down for unscheduled maintenance. We expect to be back in about an hour. Thanks for your patience.”
I hope we make it through this dark hour… Relax and go enjoy the basketball game!!
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