A little over a week ago Kanye West called out Twitter on his blog, complaining about someone having a fake Kanye West account. After reading his post I was like wow….what an idiot. Before I go into that here is his post…
“(This spaz comes courtesy of losers making fake Kanye West Twitter accounts) I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER… WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I ONLY BLOG 5 PERCENT OF WHAT I’M UP TO IN THE FIRST PLACE. I’M ACTUALLY SLOW DELIVERING CONTENT BECAUSE I’M TOO BUSY ACTUALLY BUSY BEING CREATIVE MOST OF THE TIME AND IF I’M NOT AND I’M JUST LAYING ON A BEACH I WOULDN’T TELL THE WORLD. EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED LESS OF. THE PEOPLE AT TWITTER KNOW I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER SO FOR THEM TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO POSE AS ME AND ACCUMULATE OVER A MILLION NAMES IS IRRESPONSIBLE AND DECEITFUL TO THERE FAITHFUL USERS. REPEAT… THE HEADS OF TWITTER KNEW I DIDN’T HAVE A TWITTER AND THEY HAVE TO KNOW WHICH ACCOUNTS HAVE HIGH ACTIVITY ON THEM. IT’S A FUCKING FARCE AND IT MAKES ME QUESTION WHAT OTHER SO CALLED CELEBRITY TWITTERS ARE ACTUALLY REAL OR FAKE. HEY TWITTER, TAKE THE SO CALLED KANYE WEST TWITTER DOWN NOW …. WHY? … BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!”
Well as you can see Kanye is quite mad, but for what reason? First off he calls out the “heads” of twitter and blames them for the fake account. Kanye I’m pretty sure the “heads” of twitter are more concerned about making the service scale and work right rather then who is making fake celebrity accounts.
Kanye also asks, “Why would I use Twitter???”. Well Kayne if you didn’t know twitter is a FREE marketing tool for you and a great way for you to connect with you fans (if you even care about them). I’m sure you know about marketing Kayne, since you require me to fill out a long form just so I can post a comment on your blog. And I’m pretty sure I will get an e-mail from you announcing your tour dates or new cd or something like that since I filled out the form. Wouldn’t you like to be able to send out that message to hundreds of thousands of twitter users as well? Other artist have a great following on twitter (@iamdiddy,@coldplay, @50cent) and I’m sure with as many followers as they have it has helped them in some way.
Kanye also says that we wouldn’t tell the world what he is up to. This is the common perception of twitter that people have, it is not just status updates! It is marketing, link sharing, a meeting place, etc. I use twitter as a marketing tool as well as a way to let everyone know what I’m up to. What’s on yout twitter account is up to you, so don’t complain about “telling the world”, because you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
Do you think Kanye would benefit from a Twitter account? Let me know if the comments! And remember to follow me on Twitter!
It seems like May is a good month for Movies, we have Terminator Salvation, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and of course Star Trek. I usually don’t talk about movies here on the blog, but after seeing Star Trek last Friday I definitely wanted to talk about it. I really was never a Star Trek fan growing up, it was all Star Wars for me. Star Trek always seemed old and lame to me when I would see it. I heard about the movie and I wasn’t that excited until I saw the trailer. Wow a retelling of the story, that’s exactly what I needed since I never really knew the real story of Star Trek.
The movie starts out with you getting right into the action, this is probably one of the best starts to a movie that I’ve seen in a while. After about the 15-20 minutes of action you follow the crew members as they make their way through Starfleet Academy and eventually onto the Starship Enterprise. The story was easy to follow and it gave you a better understanding of Star Trek if you were not familiar with the series.
All of the actors and actress’s played their roles really well. I was surprised to see John Cho in this movie, he is “Harold” from the Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle series. He played his character well and did not seem out of place at all. One of the best performances was by Zachary Quinto, who played Spock. Most of you know him from the TV Heroes as Sylar. He pretty much fit the role perfectly.
I’m not going to give out any spoilers or anything like that, but I do encourage you to go check out this movie if you are all into Sci-Fi or action movies, you will not be disappointed!
Twitter is exploding and it seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Many people think that Twitter is just an extension of Facebook status updates, but it is so much more than that. Twitter is great for meeting new people, passing around information, getting news, and it’s a great free platform to market to people on. So the more people you reach on Twitter depends on how many followers you have. Over the past couple of weeks I was easily able to gain over 1000 twitter followers without much work at all. I will show you how to do the same…
Set up Auto Follow
So you want people to follow you? Give them an incentive by following them back. I would normally follow people back that would follow me on Twitter, but when a lot of people add you each day it becomes a pain to follow people back. So you are going to want to setup auto follow on your account. There are many sites that can do it for you but I use TweetLater.com to do it, it is really easy to set up.
Follow other peoples Followers
When I started to want to get more followers I would check out some of Twitter power users in my niche and started following their followers, for the most part they would follow me back seeing that we were in the same niche. This takes a little while to do but if you want followers you can easily take 15 minutes a day and start following people.
Find Lists
Many people have compiled lists of people who will follow you back and who are interesting Twitter users. One list that really boosted my follower number was the Virl.com Top 250 people that are the coolest, most influential or neatest. Other lists to look for are local Twitter users in your area, you can look up the top Twitter users in your area on Twitterholic, here are the top 100 users in Pittsburgh, PA, I currently sit 28th. If people see you are from their area they will most likely follow you back.
Follow Groups
This is probably the easiest way to gain followers on Twitter. There are many websites that you can join that are follow groups, websites where you agree to follow people back and you are listed on the site. The first site like this I started using was Twitter Follower. You simply create an account and you are listed in their people that follow back directory. Once I got my account setup I gained about 30 followers right off the bat! Other follow groups include iFollowBack and TopFollowed.
Getting followers is easy, keeping them is the hard part. So make sure you are tweeting some fun and interesting things so people will keep on following you. I will be making another post on how to keep your current Twitter followers. Happy tweeting and remember to follow me on Twitter!
Look’s like Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake are back with a sequel to the Dick In a Box video. Just in time for Mother’s Day it’s called Motherlover, make sure you go watch the dick in a box video first before you watch Motherlover. Great video’s that definitely make you laugh, Happy Mother’s Day everyone!
When see you a Nike swoosh, Apple logo, or the golden arches, you instantly know what they are and what they stand for. This is brand recognition and I believe the it is very important. You should really think of your blog as a brand. You want people see not only see it as “you”, but see it as a “brand”. When people see you as a brand it gives you instant recognition and people know who you are and what you do. There are a few things you can do for free and a few that you can pay for to boost your brand recognition or start to get that initial brand recognition.
Photo of Yourself / Brand
This seems so simple, but so many people don’t do this. If you have a blog make sure it has a logo or a picture of you on it. Then people can identify that blog with you. No one wants to look at a plain jane blog layout with no logo or identity. A picture of yourself or logo gives you an identity.
Custom Design for Anything that offers it
I’m sure most of you have Twitter account’s, but how many of you have made a custom background for it? If you want people to recognize your brand you need to customize everything you can to match your brand. That’s why when you go to my Twitter page it has a background promoting this blog. Custom designs may take some time, but I’m sure people will notice. When I look at someone’s Twitter profile and they have a custom background I instantly go and check it out. If you want to know how to make a custom Twitter background you can check out my post here.
Your Name First
This is another simple thing you can do to promote your brand. If you notice on my custom Twitter background I have my facebook as BobBuskirk.com/facebook and all my other links that way as well. Putting your URL first not only makes it easier for people to remember but it puts that brand name in people’s head. The custom URL’s are easily made, you can check out my tutorial on how to do it here.
Be Willing to Pay for being different
How many blogs have you been to that look the same? If you really want to create an identity for yourself your going to want to have a custom blog / website layout. Why do you think that people like UberAffiliate and Zac Johnson pay top dollar for their custom blog layouts. This not only has to do with layout but anything that is going to help you promote your brand. Pay for things that will make you different than other people out there doing the same thing.
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