Cool little app to see who the first 10 people were you followed on Twitter (hat tip @monkchips).
Mine?
@bmcmichael’s first follow (that they still follow) was @simon_g. [Tweet this]
@simon_g joined twitter on Tue Jul 25 2006 10:42:24 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)The first 10 people that @bmcmichael followed: @simon_g, @r_c, @bbctech, @LauraLynne, @guardiantech, @monkchips, @dahowlett, @DavidBrain, @stevecla, @benayers
While Ashton Kutcher, husband of Demi Moore, is the first to have 1m followers on the strength of posting pictures of his wife in his knickers, the chancellor of the exchequer had only 1,800 takers for his plans for the British economy.
Yet his tweets last week were perfect – short, clear and informative. They made me think that if the Budget can be done on Twitter, it must be possible to do all corporate communications the same way, and put e-mail in the dustbin forever. …Not only would messages be quicker to read and easier to understand, most would not get sent at all….To communicate this way – either on Twitter or on Yammer, which is a similar service aimed at companies – would have another advantage. It would make clear who are the really powerful people in a company. Humble employees who happen to have good ideas could easily have more followers than the chief executive.
via FT.com / Columnists / Lucy Kellaway – Twittering executives reveal too much.
Good example of how you can reveal too much whilst revealing way to little. Back to my colleague Ged’s mantra…don’t just be nice, be useful.
Came across a site today that is really handy for following what journalists are talking about on Twitter, especially as more and more are requesting that PRs pitch stories and get in touch that way.
The site has been created by SawHorse and can be found at www.muckrack.com.
The following list of journalists have been added, their tweets being syndicated and also some info on their profile, follower numbers etc.
Came across this site today courtesy of Steve Rubel. Twipick let’s you view the masses of Twitter photos posted on any given topic. Uses all the photos posted on Twitpic with a particular tag and groups by trending topics so v easy to use.
Was a fun way to watch all the London Marathon photos being posted this afternoon. Can see this being really interesting and informative in the case of a larger world event – a digital rubbernecker‘s dream maybe?
An interesting post from my client at Alterian – Ian Truscott – on the power of being yourself or as a company, letting employees play their part and make up the social face to the company as a whole.
As I commented on the original post, I think “be nice” is a good mantra for the way we behave online and also for life in general but I like my colleague Ged Carroll‘s additional one “be useful”. Being useful is where all the different “yous” come in – I am assuming you are meaning the “faces” to the company can come from anywhere within the organisation here?
…and they should…..technical people need to be there, customer services, marketing, comms, senior management….
I like the thesis number 84. from the Cluetrain Manifesto as it sums it up perfectly:
“We know some people from your company. They’re pretty cool online. Do you have any more like that you’re hiding? Can they come out and play?”
As people realise the biggest benefit to being online – listening to your customers and being part of their community – is learning intensely valuable info about where you business should be going and what you should be doing better, this will become a no brainer.
Right now there are a huge number of companies that still don’t get it.
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