David Fisher : What is Noise Blog

Today on Twitter news spread like wildfire about Matt Bacak (don’t follow him) and his terrible PR release that he put out on PRWeb. Not only does this highlight my prior post that Twitter has become a numbers game and popularity contest, but it shows that this guy is a self promoting monster. Sure, we [...]

Twitter, the CB-Radio of the internet, has become a follower numbers game for many. Everyone has to play a bit, but some people are living and breathing the game.
The end goal for many is to have more “Followers”, that is people that hear what you say, on Twitter. Having a larger number of followers gives [...]

@Tibbon is back in action. After about ~5 hours of things being really odd (ie. banned from Twitter) and much bitching and complaining my account is all set. In the end it seems that myself @pfanderson, @davedelaney, @conniecrosby and @pknit were deleted/banned. I’d really like to thank everyone for helping me out and trying to get the attention of the management at Twitter. As a very cool aftereffect of this, while I’m still following everyone (I see their updates), it shows that I’m following zero people. That’s the ultimate ratio! lol

For better or worse, there’s a ton of site that I read per day. 95% of them have RSS feeds. I have them set up in my Google Reader. Yet I persist to view the actual websites. Maybe it’s just habit from the past 8 years of typing ’slashdot.org’ in my browser, and not thinking [...]