Difference between revisions of "Robert Scoble"
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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 had only really been following about 150 people, reading their social output as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator aggregated] on FriendFeed.) However, by October 2009 Scoble [http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/4699311816 revealed] that he was already back up to following 4000 people. | 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 had only really been following about 150 people, reading their social output as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator aggregated] on FriendFeed.) However, by October 2009 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 | + | 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 up to 10 billion dollars. This estimate was widely contested, but some held that Scoble's blog post directly helped Twitter to raise an additional round of funding. |
− | http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-twitter-is-underhyped-and-is-probably-wor | + | |
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