You’ve probably seen people on Twitter or Facebook yammering about “Wow, I only need 17 more followers or fans to hit 2000″ (or 10000 or whatever).
If you’ve used Twitter, you know that there’s a curve there and when you round it, it’s like drinking from a firehose.
Remember that each of those fans or followers are people. They have needs, wants and presumably they followed/fan’d you because they thought you had something to say. “I’m having a waffle” just isn’t it.
@BillGates doesn’t have 400-500k people following him on Twitter after just a few weeks because they want to hear him talk about Windows or MS Office. Bill is engaging to follow nowadays because he talks about poverty, disease and education – and then puts his money where his mouth is. Lots of it. Almost $300 million for polio, for example.
Engage. Have a *meaningful* conversation.
Think about the folks on Twitter or Facebook whose posts you look forward to. How are they different from yours?
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I agree. I just don’t get the facebook games. What’s the point? Seems like a huge waste of what little time we have. All that energy, not to mention time, being spent on something that’s not even real. I’d rather exchange real ideas with people I actually know and consider my friends, not a friend of a friend of an aquaintance of a friend…
Sheryl,
Sorry you feel that way about facebook games. I was just going to send you a pink cow on Yo Farmville.
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