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While Scoble has a large number of followers on various social networks, he is particularly distinguished by the time he spends following others. In March 2008 he [http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/23/the-secret-to-twitter wrote on his blog] that "the secret to [[Twitter]] isn’t how many followers you have, but how many people you are following." In December 2008 [[Michael Arrington]] [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/22/im-sorry-robert-but-its-time-for-a-friendfeed-intervention suggested on TechCrunch] that Scoble was addicted to [[Twitter]] and [[FriendFeed]]. Arrington reported that Scoble admitted to monitoring those services all day long, "hitting refresh over and over on both," and to spending at least seven hours a day, seven days a week, reading and responding on those services. | While Scoble has a large number of followers on various social networks, he is particularly distinguished by the time he spends following others. In March 2008 he [http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/23/the-secret-to-twitter wrote on his blog] that "the secret to [[Twitter]] isn’t how many followers you have, but how many people you are following." In December 2008 [[Michael Arrington]] [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/22/im-sorry-robert-but-its-time-for-a-friendfeed-intervention suggested on TechCrunch] that Scoble was addicted to [[Twitter]] and [[FriendFeed]]. Arrington reported that Scoble admitted to monitoring those services all day long, "hitting refresh over and over on both," and to spending at least seven hours a day, seven days a week, reading and responding on those services. | ||
| − | Perhaps in response to Arrington's concerns, in June 2009 Scoble [http://scobleizer.com/2009/06/28/back-to-blogging-week-no-friendfeedtwitter-for-a-week/ announced] that he would pay more attention to his blog. And in August 2009 he used an automated script to [http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-purge/ unfollow 106,000 people] on Twitter. (Though as [[Loic Lemeur]] has [http://loiclemeur.com/english/2009/02/robert-scoble-is-fake-following.html pointed out], Scoble automatically followed back anyone who was following him, but he only really followed systematically the output of a much smaller group, principally made up of his contacts on FriendFeed.) | + | Perhaps in response to Arrington's concerns, in June 2009 Scoble [http://scobleizer.com/2009/06/28/back-to-blogging-week-no-friendfeedtwitter-for-a-week/ announced] that he would pay more attention to his blog. And in August 2009 he used an automated script to [http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-purge/ unfollow 106,000 people] on Twitter. (Though as [[Loic Lemeur]] has [http://loiclemeur.com/english/2009/02/robert-scoble-is-fake-following.html pointed out], Scoble automatically followed back anyone who was following him, but he only really followed systematically the output of a much smaller group, principally made up of his contacts on FriendFeed.) Only two months after the purge, Scoble [http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/4699311816 revealed] that he was already back up to following 4000 people. |
Despite his efforts to reduce the time he spends on them, Scoble remains convinced of the value of social websites. In August 2009 he [http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-twitter-is-underhyped-and-is-probably-wor estimated that] Twitter was worth 5 to 10 billion dollars. This estimate was widely contested, but [http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/4039596489 Scoble has suggested] that his blog post helped Twitter to raise [http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/16/twitter-closing-new-venture-round-with-1-billion-valuation/ additional funding] based on a valuation of one billion dollars. | Despite his efforts to reduce the time he spends on them, Scoble remains convinced of the value of social websites. In August 2009 he [http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-twitter-is-underhyped-and-is-probably-wor estimated that] Twitter was worth 5 to 10 billion dollars. This estimate was widely contested, but [http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/statuses/4039596489 Scoble has suggested] that his blog post helped Twitter to raise [http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/16/twitter-closing-new-venture-round-with-1-billion-valuation/ additional funding] based on a valuation of one billion dollars. | ||
