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Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Marc Meyer — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:08:35 -0000

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

so what do we call twitter spam then?

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

DavidGriner — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:51:44 -0000

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.

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

jonnygoldstein — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:20:19 -0000

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

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Adam — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:50:40 -0000

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.

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

pyrmontvillage — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:49:02 -0000

@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

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Josh Carr Superstar — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:17:41 -0000

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

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:24:08 -0000

@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.

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Kevin Bondelli — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:16:29 -0000

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?

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Rodney_Rumford — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:15:15 -0000

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

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Martin Ringlein — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:13:33 -0000

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.

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Kathleen Lisson — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:52:52 -0000

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

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Nick O'Neill — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:41:42 -0000

@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 ;)

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Doug — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:38:16 -0000

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.

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Jason Wishard — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:37:45 -0000

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.

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Jeff Davis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:25:47 -0000

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.

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Vitak — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:02:41 -0000

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.

Re: The Epitome of Faux “Social Media Experts”

Rodney_Rumford — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:49:59 -0000

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... ;)