Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

Ashton Kutcher is the cover story on this weeks Fast Company magazine.
Ashton and his cohorts in Katalyst media (yes the url does resolve to a Facebook page), Sarah Ross and Jason Goldberg are really the worst part of social media, get your numbers and then use a megaphone to shout at your followers.
“If we [...]

You wake up in the morning, whats your first thought?
“I GOTTA GET MORE FRIENDS”
Who lives like this?
Well @katelawson worries about getting to 100, @eatingLA begs to hit 1000, and @megalucklylady views @carrie as a hero because she has 10,000.
These people really completely miss the value in twitter.
“Popularity is not an indication of quality.” Vanna Bonta
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Its the end of a fantastic year but a chat with a few friends over the past few days have got me thinking.
I think we are being played, I didn’t mind it so much before but its become so bad lately that its gone beyond a joke.
This is not about brands its about people that [...]

If you use Twitter and haven’t heard of Mr Tweet then you are seriously missing out. With a huge amount of twitter add-ons in existence at present I had expected some of the usual run of the mill fare.Not with Mr Tweet
Its algorithms are really quite amazing.
It emails me with a list of suggestions but [...]

Shel’s post and about 200 follow attempts on Twitter from various “Social media experts, Social media ninja’s or Media experts got me thinking.
What really are Social Media experts and who decides they are experts?
Number of followers?
Expert in their field?
Published?
Connected?
Looking at a list by Charlene Li which Jeremiah Owyang mentioned on Twitter I am still unsure [...]