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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 | + | 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.) However, by October 2009 [http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/4699311816 he revealed] that he was already back up to following 4000 people. |
http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-twitter-is-underhyped-and-is-probably-wor | http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-twitter-is-underhyped-and-is-probably-wor | ||
