Saturday 26 June 2010
Sunday 6 June 2010
How do they know ??
I created my Twitter account and within a couple of hours or so I picked up four "followers".
Each of these was basically a semi-spam account. Real businesses (as far as I know) all related to poker - with something to sell. This happens a little bit on facebook. In my case, for example, a cardroom or casino may invite me to be their friend. I usually decline such meta-advertising.
On LinkedIn, headhunters invite you to connect so they can get in touch with you and so that they can see into your network of colleagues.
Fair enough, I suppose, and I nearly always decline those invites as well.
On Twitter, I doubt one can block a follower - it's a "recipient led network".
There's no real harm in it either.
What what intrigues me is how - when my account was just tens of minutes old and I have made no posts at all - they knew I was a poker player ?
They'd be kind of scary at the table I guess - excellent reads.
Each of these was basically a semi-spam account. Real businesses (as far as I know) all related to poker - with something to sell. This happens a little bit on facebook. In my case, for example, a cardroom or casino may invite me to be their friend. I usually decline such meta-advertising.
On LinkedIn, headhunters invite you to connect so they can get in touch with you and so that they can see into your network of colleagues.
Fair enough, I suppose, and I nearly always decline those invites as well.
On Twitter, I doubt one can block a follower - it's a "recipient led network".
There's no real harm in it either.
What what intrigues me is how - when my account was just tens of minutes old and I have made no posts at all - they knew I was a poker player ?
They'd be kind of scary at the table I guess - excellent reads.
Friday 4 June 2010
To Tweet or Not To Tweet ?
I am hardly a technophobe, but I don't find myself leaping at the new technologies or the new internet trends. I was a pretty slow adopter of eBay, for example, and highly skeptical of their business idea. Likewise, I did not see the big deal about yet another search engine (google).
It took a while before I decided to give facebook a try, and the same for LinkedIn.
I have quite consciously avoided taking on any more of these networking services - they just eat up time, I think.
This specifically applied to Twitter. I really struggled to see the point of it. 140 characters - why ?
However, I am on the point of caving in.
With a trip to Vegas just around the corner, it seems like it would be the ideal way of keeping friends (those also in Vegas, those about to come, those staying at home or already back) informed of my progress at the tournaments and indeed to share the news of others among the "community" (I do find that UK poker players in Vegas constitute a real community).
I may soon be learning Twitterese.
It took a while before I decided to give facebook a try, and the same for LinkedIn.
I have quite consciously avoided taking on any more of these networking services - they just eat up time, I think.
This specifically applied to Twitter. I really struggled to see the point of it. 140 characters - why ?
However, I am on the point of caving in.
With a trip to Vegas just around the corner, it seems like it would be the ideal way of keeping friends (those also in Vegas, those about to come, those staying at home or already back) informed of my progress at the tournaments and indeed to share the news of others among the "community" (I do find that UK poker players in Vegas constitute a real community).
I may soon be learning Twitterese.
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