70% of your tweets should share resources- sharing others’ voices, opinions, quotes, blog posts, articles, content and resources<\/p>\n
20% of your tweets should engage in conversations with others, responding, connecting, collaborating and connecting with others.<\/p>\n
10% of your tweets can be chirping, chitchat as Angela calls it, on trivial details or self-promotion.<\/p>\n
via 10 Tips For Managing Twitter As Your Usage Increases | Blog of Mr. Tweet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All these rules, guidelines. Not sure I endorse any of them. I assume their target audiences are people tweeting for business reasons.<\/p>\n
Twitter is many things to many different people. What works for you may not work for the next person. Or do you plan your conversations to include “70% of resource sharing”?<\/p>\n
But by quoting this guideline, I am showing that this kind of article works. 10 steps to success… Follow this method and success will be yours.<\/p>\n
Research on Jaiku:<\/strong><\/p>\n Apparently… who knew… Research has found… Microbloggers are really boring<\/a>… The article shows 3 things: either there were no linguists on the research team, otherwise they would know that a lot of content that is sent across the communication channel is “meaningless in itself” but serves the purpose of keeping the communication going. Or secondly if there was a linguist on the research team he or she failed to make this connection. And thirdly the amazing culture of searching (errr… by default gooogling) for everything. I entered the new disclaimer of this site as a search phrase “This is a very boring personal website” to find the article on Jaiku research. <\/p>\n In was f\u00fcr einer Welt lebe ich eigentlich. <\/em><\/p>\n Personal projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n The MBA<\/strong> project is moving along. It was quite an experience to be on-campus at a large state university.\u00a0 One thing that struck me most was the vast expanses of ruralness<\/strong>. When I think of the US from my Euro-centric perspective, it comprises sprawling big cities like San Francisco, New York, Miami, Chicago. Influenced by visits and movies. But 2 weeks in West Lafayette have changed this image. Lots of farmland between O’Hare International Airport and the uni.<\/p>\n I learned – during one of the cultural classes – that China has 143 cities with a population of over 1 million. Compared with the US where there are about 52 metropolitan areas with a population of over 1 million<\/a>. <\/p>\n Somehow I find it both comforting and scary that the superpower of the world is based on large expanses of small and mid-sized towns that depend on farming. <\/p>\n Compare this with the increasing pressures of urbanization in many parts of the world. <\/p>\n The big three: Land, water, food.<\/p>\n Another amazing fact from a euro-centric perspective: The wage rate in Indiana dropped from $30 to $15 within one year. That number alone shows the crisis. <\/p>\n New cam:<\/strong> Going to get an S90 to replace my overexposing Ixus 900 Ti. <\/p>\n Flickr wall<\/strong>: I want to build a Flickr wall based on this example<\/a>. Wish me good luck… <\/p>\n Free advice for a Twitter\/Google\/Facebook\/Friendfeed world…<\/strong><\/p>\n And a finally word of advice: Remember that all of your precious UGC data that is stored at external, commercial sites may be gone tomorrow. Don’t take 5 years to learn this<\/a>. <\/p>\n![\"143](\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4426179669_f0eef54863_m.jpg\")
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