I for one find Guy Kawasaki's tweets a bit spammy. They all have linkbait titles and for some reason redirect all stories through alltop.com. Maybe most importantly, his stream conveys no personality whatsoever. Hardly the perfect tweet or twitterer.
Hmm, very good point. I think the topic of a good tweeter is very polarizing. Some are there for engagement, some for news and interesting articles. As concerns the latter one, I truly think there is no better tweeter than Guy. If one is in it to have more conversation and news only every now and then, then I agree this wouldn't make so much sense then.
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no, actually it's not :). I take it you don't like his tweets very much then. Or your view on how to use twitter differs significantly. Is that the case?
Sorry Leon, I misunderstood. My confusion stemmed from how it seemed that you were inspecting the titles- not tweets. But for all intents and purposes for your article I realize that's the same.
no worries, getting peoples thoughts is always the best thing that can happen. :)
Well, I think the people behind @GuyKawasaki are putting a lot of effort into both the posts and tweets (which are def interlinked I guess) and are sweating over every word they are writing. To me the content is quite useful most of the time - def retweetable all of the time. Dismissing it as "spammy" is a bit - well harsh. If one feels it is quite a big load he tweets, that's understandable, but spam looks different to my eyes. So that's why I believe his headlines are overly brilliant. :). Is this maybe more understandable?
Good post, It is true that most of the influential people on twitter either have some software tweeting for them, or are paying someone to sit down all day and do it. The later is obviously much less cost effective. But I think you hit a good point that tweeting often is not enough. It's a the kind of spray gun attack we have come to frown upon by email marketers. Tweeting something important to your followers and keeping it simple, is far more effective than just tweeting. It only becomes really powerful when you combine the two.