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> Sorry but I think it's ok to make jokes from your personal twitter account.

Look, I don't know you and my advice is 'free', so it's worth what you paid for it, but you can either take it serious or realize that with your responses you are literally only making it worse for yourself.

Your 'personal' twitter account is publicly visible, and you are publicly associated with your fledgling company.

If you think that you can play cowboy with the reputation of your company on your personal twitter account then you are really missing the point of what I'm trying to get across to you.

Ignore this and other feedback here at your peril.

There are lots of people here that wish you well, that is why you get this feedback, if we didn't care we'd just shut up and think 'let them stew, they'll find out soon enough'.

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There are lots of people here that wish you well, that is why you get this feedback, if we didn't care we'd just shut up and think 'let them stew, they'll find out soon enough'

Thanks, I was going to write the same thing.

You know, I started wondering if I come across too defensive to my customers. The insidious part is that if this were to happen I wouldn't even know - no one would be compelled to tell me. There must be a systemic fix to this self-awareness problem. Maybe I could pay someone to read my forum and rate the perceived "sincerity and openness"? If they are getting paid just for that they would probably be more forthcoming...

Thanks for the feedback-- really!

Probably shoulda said "Just joking" in the tweet (I thought the fact that I linked to a Bill O'Reilly outtake might communicate the tone of the tweet). I should've made it extremely clear that I was joking.

Chalk it up to a long week, a late night, and a bad guess about whether people would get the joke. But DON'T chalk it up to me thinking that Twitter is somehow private or different than any of the other (very public) parts of the internet! :-)

wow... really? peril? Perhaps you're taking this whole thing too seriously yourself?

Interesting. I've seen quite a few people launch their stuff on HN and invariably they knew how to take the feedback they got and use it constructively, you are doing an absolutely terrible job of it, that is why I added the 'at your peril' there.

If you are still of the opinion that you are doing this the right way I suggest you talk it over with some other founders of YC funded companies and see how they react.

If they all give you the green then you'll know you have nothing to fear from the impression you are making here.

And yes, I do take it serious, maybe you should too.

I apologize. It's been a hectic morning and I took a few things personally when I shouldn't have. I'm going to take a breather and stop commenting for a while. :)

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