What’s up with Chris on Twitter?
Dec 18th
A couple of days ago I decided to abandon @ChrisLeckness and start over with “protected tweets”. I was going to seperate friends, followers, and asshats this way. It went well but there are a couple problems…
- By protecting your tweets, others can’t see what you tweet. That is the point right? Right. BUT, what about when you want to say something to someone that isn’t following you. You can @theirname all you want, but they aren’t going to see it. I had thought that they would as long as they were @’ed, but I was wrong. I did a test with a couple people on my new account yesterday and no luck. I am not going to be able to protect my tweets. Being able to have conversation with others that do not follow me is important.
- I also realized yesterday how many accounts and how many services I will have to log in and chance stuff on to reflect the new account. I had not thought about that.
That said, I have to go unprotected and I am going to return to my original account. No, I don’t mind losing 3500 tweets and almost 800 followers. In fact, I removed 250-300 followers one by one before I said screw it, this is taking too long. I wasted almost 2 hours removing about 200 of the followers. It’s ridiculous… I have decided to just leave those that are left in place. I unfollowed everyone I followed on that account when I moved to the new account too. I will refollow the same folks I followed on my new account. My new outlook on Twitter will remain the same too.
My NEW Twitter Policy
Dec 17th
Taking a page from Ike, I decided to make myself a Twitter Policy. I just abandoned my 3500 tweets and 700 followers on my old account and started a brand new Twitter account to move forward with my new plan on how I am going to use Twitter.
I plan to continue to use the @Mobilitysite Account to share our stories and contests on a non-personal level.
With my new account, I am only following a select few people. These people are local friends and family, personal online friends, the celebs that are real that I care to hear, and colleagues that I have become friends with. Don’t be offended if I don’t follow you back. It’s not personal. I am just separating things to make my life easier online. Many of the people I used to follow are now part of my private list (~200), but I have no need to follow many of them on a personal level.
2 new innovations with Twitter have made it where I can pull off this plan without affecting others.
- With the lists, I can follow these people selectively without having to actually follow them. This allows me to separate personal and business (or in my case, hobby). I can choose to not read the list on a particular day.
- With the part where followers won’t see tweets that start with @_____ unless they also follow that account, the static for my followers will be reduced since they won’t see many of my tweets.
As for my followers, if you send me an @reply, I will probably answer no problem. I just might not follow back. It’s not that I don’t care about the individual, it’s just that I need to tone down the noise.
If want to follow me, my username is now @Leckness. My tweets are private. Don’t be afraid to request to follow me. I will most likely approve the request.
- I won’t approve you if you have a 1/2 naked avatar.
- I probably won’t approve you if you have about the same amount of followers and you are following and those numbers are 1K+
- I probably won’t approve you if you have 5K+ Followers.
Twitter can be fun. I enjoy it now too. I used to hate Twitter.
Dude Tweets his Marraige in Real Time
Dec 10th
OMG. I love this. It’s classic, kind of goofy and untraditional, but classic. Props! The Minister announces him and his new bride as man and wife and he pops out the iPhones. Hands one to his new bride and they start updating Facebook and Twitter. After they get done with the updates, the kiss.
I surprised not only my guests, but also Tracy by pulling out my phone and posting on Facebook and Twitter from the altar during out wedding. I had her phone ready in my pocket, so when she asked for it I could hand it to her. No one knew about this except the minister, and myself.
Here is a link to the actual tweet.
Source: TechCrunch
Am I doing it right? (Twitter)
Nov 15th
I have had a couple friends stop following me on Twitter in the last month or so. These aren’t just “Twitter” friends, these are actual friends in the industry. The 1st one said I tweeted too much and another said I was too self promotional. I wasn’t going to argue with the ones I asked, but these two left me wondering…
Do I Tweet too much? Am I too self promotional on Twitter?
I say no, but maybe I am wrong. Maybe I am too blind to see the problem. You know, the way some parents tell their daugthers how good they sing when their family dog keeps a better tune.
According to Tweetstats.com, I post about 11.6 tweets a day. Is that bad? According to the same source, 12% of my tweets are retweets. I RT my own sites often, but I also retweet friends just about as much.
So, am I doing it right. 
Twitter Pages Have Varied Google Page Ranks.
Nov 11th
I noticed something interesting today while checking out a couple Twitter profiles. The page ranks are different depending on the user. That’s quite interesting. I realize that Google is now indexing Twitter, but I figured the site would have a unified PR across the site. How important is your “Twitter Page Rank” going to be, or is that going to be useless?
Oprah and Scoble are PR 7…
I am a PR5, Mobilitysite is PR4, and iPhoneMVP is PR0…
I use Google’s bar in FF to watch page ranks for my sites and just happened to notice this. New, I don’t know. Interesting, yes.
Woo Hoo… I am not a Twitter Spammer!
Oct 10th
Tweetblocker analyzes Twitter users and their patterns to determine if they might be a spammer. I am not a spammer.
Head over to Tweetblocker to see if you are a spammer. Chances are that you aren’t if you are reading this. hehe.
Twitter: On again off again…
Apr 20th
Yes. I am using Twitter again. My Twitter saga goes all the way back to March 2007. Back then I resisted the urge to jump onboard. To be honest, I didn’t really see much use in it. I still am a little skeptical of it’s true value, but I am finding a way to make it enjoyable. I do enjoy chit chatting with others and it does provide a almost live, multi user, chat environment. It gives me an opportunity to hop into conversations that are not worth the time to talk on the phone about, but a quick note back and forth is enough to discuss. I also gives me a chance to read what others think about hot items coming up and even current events. I get to see silly things like what Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit is doing.
Do you use Twitter?
Notice to those that use Social Networking sites.
Mar 27th
I am going to try to be more active! Everytime I log into Facebook, Linkedin, etc, I have so many requests or emails to go through. I am online a lot each day, but I don’t check those sites often. To combat this, I am going to try out a pretty new browser based on Firefox called Flock.
I looks promising, but I fear that all the sidebars and top bars are going to really get on my nerves and be a detriment to serious browsing by limiting my viewable area. We shall see.
Do you follow me on Twitter?
Mar 17th
Ok, so if you do… Tell me. I see lots of people following, but I don’t twitter much. Maybe I should? I just watched a video I saw at PDA Live that explains Twitter in plain english. It makes more sense to me now. hehe… Still, I don’t have that much time to tell the world I am eating breakfast.
If you follow me on twitter, tell me why in the comments here. Not saying you shouldn’t, just trying to understand Twitter a little better. Most of you already know that I was skeptical, but since Scoble was so into it, I thought it would be worth checking out. Everyone online seems to use it… I think I need to jump off the bridge too.
ps. Jason Calcanis is buying your Twitter follow… LOL.
