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This Week in Twitter #5 with Alana Joy & Sean Percival

Episode #5 with Alana Joy & Sean Percival

Special guests Sean Pervical, Director of Content Socialization at MySpace & his website lalawag was voted LA’s Best Tech Blog and Alana Joy, voted LA’s Best Most Shameless Self Promoter.  Highlights include the importance of tweeting a lot, good tastemakers, and predictions on Twitter’s web interface.

0:02:08  Why do people ignore trending topics?

0:03:45  Is it important to put Hashtags?

0:05:24  What are you looking for in an idle follower?

0:06:26  A measure of true follower count?

0:08:35  The ratio, is that the telling stat? How many you are following to followers?

0:11:08  @percivalspawn

0:11:56   lalawag

0:12:40  Alana on DMs

0:13:58  How important is it to Tweet a lot?

0:17:34  Sean on being a Good Tastemaker.

0:19:10  Tools you use?

0:21:30  What is a killer feature you wish Twitter would put on the Web?

0:23:17  Sean’s Bold Predictions about Twitter web interface.

0:26:45  Obseesion with Game Theory.  Pushing Users to next level.

0:28:53  Concerns about Safety using Foursquare/GoWalla/etc?

0:31:10  Any other Features Twitter is missing?

0:32:52  Walk us through what Director of Content Socialization is?

0:40:17 Business standpoint Twitter is Invaluable

0:41:44  Day we don’t have to sit and debate: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

0:42:13 Own your Own Domain

0:44:25 Jason and his Newsletter

0:45:28 Invite people into your Inbox

0:46:48 @ replies: You Guess the Celebrity

0:49:09  Museum of Celebrity Tweets

0:51:13 News

0:51:29  Item #1:  The 10 Billionth Tweet

0:53:45  Item #2:  No More Social Media for American Idol Contestants

0:58:52  Item #3:  Shorty Awards were just awarded. What is the most Innovative use of Twitter you have seen?

  • http://iconology.therndm.com JRameau

    great episode, much respect for Bob Ross. Definitely a lot of good insights on the do’s and don’ts of self-promotion on the social-web.