Comments on: Ghost Tweeting is the Milli Vanilli of Web 3.0.

By: Authentizität: 100% echt. – Social Media Academy

Authentizität: 100% echt. – Social Media Academy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:06:17 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:49:00 +0000

Dogmarcopolo said: You said ‘Maybe it really is time for the mantle to be passed’ and it is. Its time for ‘open Source News’ as in open source software. Would you or anyone else be interested in such a project?

By: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:02:00 +0000

Great post, Michelle!

I never really thought of Kawasaki as a person — even though we did correspond once about some baby orangutans!?!? — so the ghost-tweet thing bothered me less than his volume. I’ve almost unfollowed him several times, before and after the ghost revelation, but there’s usually just enough signal amidst the noise to stop me from clicking “remove”.

BTW, I came across your blog via Twitter and scrolling through, Milli Vanilli caught my eye first, but #guyfail was too much to not leave a comment!

By: Patrick Stoll

Patrick Stoll — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:10:00 +0000

I like the headline. Yeah.

By: remlap42

remlap42 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:43:00 +0000

Great post Michelle.

I’ve been considering “unfollowing” Guy as well. The only reason I didn’t do it immediately after I heard about the “ghost tweeters” is that every once in a while, his “ghosts” have a decent tweet that is worth the 140 chars. I suggest his ghosts reveal themselves so we can follow them in true twitter fashion.

By: MikeTek

MikeTek — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:26:00 +0000

I'm definitely with you on this one. I wasn't following Guy before, but after these keynotes I'm pretty set on never following him in the future.

But it's hard to suggest that Guy's publicized Twitter spamming has had any serious negative effect on his follower count overall.

http://twittercounter.com/guykawasaki

Not even a blip on the chart.

By: Andy Darnell

Andy Darnell — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:12:00 +0000

Very good read. I think I just found someone else to add to my reader list.

By: everysandwich

everysandwich — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:19:00 +0000

I feel hip now for having never followed him. Ghost tweeting makes no sense to me. Clone tweeting, real physical clones, now that might be worth a debate and possibly a horror film.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:39:00 +0000

I’m with you. Effectively, social media should be about authenticity, even if it’s not. When your brand is as big as Guy’s, I don’t think he cares one way or another, but…too many folks look at the model and think that they can fake their way to the “top” of the social media fireplace.