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The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

This afternoon I received a new twitter follower that goes by the name “mediaexpert”. I have posted a Twitter screenshot of her profile below (if it’s even a her). By the time I checked out her profile, I realized that she had already added and interacted ... Continue reading »

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  • Rodney_Rumford

    1 year ago

    she is such a fricking expert her tweet is asking people to tell her what to put in her outline for her speech. LMAO

    Nick, you should show up and video punkd her if she is speaking in DC.

    it is just like people claiming to be SEO experts because they got on page one of google for some lame keyword... ;)
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  • Vitak

    1 year ago

    Wow, this girl is an expert at one thing: spamming twitter accounts. She signed up today and is already following 1100+ people. I think that's pretty impressive. She must have a lot of time on her hands.

    Did you see the interchange between her and Doug?

    He writes: dammit - when will it ever stop? http://twitter.com/mediaexpert - get a clue people, a twitter account does not make you an expert.

    And then she responds: @marchdoe play nice with me and I will play nice with you.

    This is freakin' amazing. Since when did they let all the crazy people out of the psych wards? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm pretty obsessed with the social web -- it's what I wrote my master's thesis on and what I'll research for my PhD -- but people are taking this stuff just a little too far. I *completely* agree with your frustration over people like this girl Nick.
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  • Jeff Davis

    1 year ago

    So far I've learned she's about to head out on a Starbucks run and that she loves Green Tea Vitamin Water. Whoa! That places me in social media guru status.
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  • Jason Wishard

    1 year ago

    But she's a princess. Of course, if that's the case, her and Paris Hilton should go toe-to-toe in the ring. That would be a sweet Celebrity Death Match.
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  • Doug

    1 year ago

    Nick, I am far from an expert, nor do I play one on TV or on the Internet. I appreciate the note, but at the same time am really not even sure what "social media" even is. To me all media is social because it requires communication. Communication is best done with another person, those who communicate with themselves are considered "crazy".

    I am not sure I can live up to your label.
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  • Nick O'Neill

    1 year ago

    @Doug ... I just decided to call you that because you obviously know more about it (social media = digital form of normal communication) then she does ...

    Feel free to call yourself anything b/c that's the world we live in :) Hopefully you don't call yourself a medical doctor though ;)
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  • Kathleen Lisson

    1 year ago

    Could be a writer doing a live experiment to point out how NOT to utilize Twitter. Or am I just looking on the bright side?
    Kathleen Lisson
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  • Martin Ringlein

    1 year ago

    I am with Kathleen -- well... I want to be believe that is the case, but the pessimistic side of me tells me she is legit.

    I recently wrote about this very topic, The Social Media Expert Plague.

    It seems more and more there is this emergence of two worlds colliding: those that are social on the web and those that profit from social activity on the web. I at least like that she is both building connections and using Twitter in the way it was intended. I get annoyed with the spammers that essentially use Twitter as an RSS feed and auto-twitter everything.

    Hell, i am waiting for the application that auto-Twitters when I've twittered.

    @mediaexpert represents a decline in the social web and this emerging force could be the death of open social media with a push to more closed door, invite-only applications that are slowly becoming more and more popular in the forum world. Forums will one of the first social media outlets and for the past decade have become so over saturated with noise that the best are now elitist invite-only environments.
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  • Rodney_Rumford

    1 year ago

    Kathleen. Yup. Might be a glaring case study for how not to use twitter.
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  • Kevin Bondelli

    1 year ago

    This takes the cake: @Rumford un-followed me :-( for not "adding value" ... wow, Twitter is hard.

    Twitter is hard?!?! I just HAVE to hire this girl. She is a social media philosopher. Just look at this nugget: "I am thinking that Twitter is like RSS for Life." Brilliant.

    The funny thing is that she is going to get a ton of followers that just want to see the stupid things she says.

    Some of my other favorites:

    I have 69 Followers *giggles*

    does anyone still use mybloglog?

    Maybe I should have just bought a Twitter account on eBay. Like joining a Fraternity in college? Just buy friends?
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  • Nick O'Neill

    1 year ago

    @Martin I'm not quite sure why tweeting blog posts is so frowned upon ... Twitter asks "What are you doing?" ... I'm writing a blog post so deal with it :)

    Seriously, if I can't profit from being me then what's the point? It's possible to be part of the conversation as well as occasionally influencing it.
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  • Josh Carr Superstar

    1 year ago

    I am following both of you now - i think the exchange is really interesting.

    I have always felt that calling yourself a social media expert should hold as much weight as a teenage girl calling herself a "telecom" expert.

    @joshcarr6 - go ahead and follow me if you want to read some dumb stuff
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  • pyrmontvillage

    1 year ago

    @joshcarrsuperstar...

    Must say I wholeheartedly agree with you,...

    At the end of the day, One can call oneself anything, its when it comes to delivering....that is the tell
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  • Adam

    1 year ago

    she has gained a huge amount of followers since this post! The above screen shot shows 19 followers... looking at her profile now she has 154 followers.
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  • jonnygoldstein

    1 year ago

    Adam--look, if you follow 1000+ people, you probably will get 150 followers. Ick.
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  • DavidGriner

    1 year ago

    My agency looked at a bunch of profiles and feeds like that one when we were cobbling together the persona for http://twitter.com/demandjustice

    It's easy to find daily inspiration for the feed on Twitter.
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  • Marc Meyer

    1 year ago

    As I'm reading this, I get a tweet from her. Unbelievable. Very odd and ironic...

    so what do we call twitter spam then?
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