Comments on: Your website is more important than social networking http://www.auctioneertech.com/2009/your-website-is-more-important-than-social-networking/ Technology, auctions and auctioneers - auction tech for the auction industry Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:10:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carl Carter http://www.auctioneertech.com/2009/your-website-is-more-important-than-social-networking/#comment-477 Carl Carter Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:03:38 +0000 http://www.auctioneertech.com/?p=1569#comment-477 Brilliant. My one point of difference is while you are absolutely on target re: Facebook, LinkedIn etc., Twitter seems to have evolved into a different animal for two reasons: (1) It doesn't do as good a job of enabling interactive conversations that other people can easily follow, and (b) It can reach a much broader audience -- far beyond your followers. (I now see Twitter followers as almost irrelevant and don't do anything to add them.) <br><br>Those two Twitter traits are making it less personal by its nature, so people there now follow topics/hashes more than people, and that makes outright business promotion (e.g. auction announcements) more acceptable. If somebody's got a search set on #duluth, they don't much care about the poster, just whether it interests them. Brilliant. My one point of difference is while you are absolutely on target re: Facebook, LinkedIn etc., Twitter seems to have evolved into a different animal for two reasons: (1) It doesn't do as good a job of enabling interactive conversations that other people can easily follow, and (b) It can reach a much broader audience — far beyond your followers. (I now see Twitter followers as almost irrelevant and don't do anything to add them.)

Those two Twitter traits are making it less personal by its nature, so people there now follow topics/hashes more than people, and that makes outright business promotion (e.g. auction announcements) more acceptable. If somebody's got a search set on #duluth, they don't much care about the poster, just whether it interests them.

]]> By: Carl Carter http://www.auctioneertech.com/2009/your-website-is-more-important-than-social-networking/#comment-469 Carl Carter Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:03:38 +0000 http://www.auctioneertech.com/?p=1569#comment-469 Brilliant. My one point of difference is while you are absolutely on target re: Facebook, LinkedIn etc., Twitter seems to have evolved into a different animal for two reasons: (1) It doesn't do as good a job of enabling interactive conversations that other people can easily follow, and (b) It can reach a much broader audience -- far beyond your followers. (I now see Twitter followers as almost irrelevant and don't do anything to add them.) <br><br>Those two Twitter traits are making it less personal by its nature, so people there now follow topics/hashes more than people, and that makes outright business promotion (e.g. auction announcements) more acceptable. If somebody's got a search set on #duluth, they don't much care about the poster, just whether it interests them. Brilliant. My one point of difference is while you are absolutely on target re: Facebook, LinkedIn etc., Twitter seems to have evolved into a different animal for two reasons: (1) It doesn't do as good a job of enabling interactive conversations that other people can easily follow, and (b) It can reach a much broader audience — far beyond your followers. (I now see Twitter followers as almost irrelevant and don't do anything to add them.)

Those two Twitter traits are making it less personal by its nature, so people there now follow topics/hashes more than people, and that makes outright business promotion (e.g. auction announcements) more acceptable. If somebody's got a search set on #duluth, they don't much care about the poster, just whether it interests them.

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