Comments on: Beware the Numbers! http://www.thehappyaccident.net/beware-the-numbers/ Greg Pincus talks social media and happy accidents (and sometimes chocolate) Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:11:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kara http://www.thehappyaccident.net/beware-the-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-1292 Kara Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:54:27 +0000 http://www.thehappyaccident.net/?p=1857#comment-1292 I've noticed this on several occasions. And how often have you seen the case where the avatar doesn't match the tweets? Just this morning I found myself followed by a tweeter with a financial looking chart as their avatar, yet the tweets were random and frequent, with no apparent connection to each other, and certainly none relating to finance. For me the most important number is indeed the number of tweets. And if that number is not proportionate to the number of people supposedly engaged with the tweeter, either following or as followers, that is a tweeter I block! (BTW, I really enjoy your blog. You always have something interesting and useful to say :) .-= Kara´s last blog ..<a href="http://notjustforkids.blogspot.com/2010/03/go-on-wimp-yourself.html" rel="nofollow">Go on--Wimp Yourself!</a> =-. I’ve noticed this on several occasions. And how often have you seen the case where the avatar doesn’t match the tweets? Just this morning I found myself followed by a tweeter with a financial looking chart as their avatar, yet the tweets were random and frequent, with no apparent connection to each other, and certainly none relating to finance. For me the most important number is indeed the number of tweets. And if that number is not proportionate to the number of people supposedly engaged with the tweeter, either following or as followers, that is a tweeter I block!

(BTW, I really enjoy your blog. You always have something interesting and useful to say :)
Kara´s last blog ..Go on–Wimp Yourself!

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