Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
(Frank Zappa from the album Joe's Garage, Track: Packard Goose)
My Twitter Challenge
Submitted by Martyn on 12 March 2009 - 11:51am
Anyone who knows me 'well' will know that I generally don't like blogs and any other flavour of Social Networking.
I maintain this blog so irregularly that it may as well not exist. So why am I now a Twitterer?
Well, like so many things in real life[TM] - I'm doing it for a 'bet'. My rationale is that nobody is ever really going to be interested in who I am, and especially not what I'm doing - even less so on a regular basis. So the bet goes along the lines of:
Provided I can keep it up for 6 months, apart from a handful of 'followers' who 'follow me' on spec because they've searched the Twitter site for shared interests, and about the same number of others who follow me because I'm following them, there will be no more than 250 'unknown' followers, following me because anything I 'tweet' is of any interest to them.
If I'm wrong I'll donate £100 to the Alzheimer's Society. If I'm right, my colleagues - who have promised not to follow me, will collectively donate £100
So, my foray into Social Networking is started. Expect total bollocks on a daily basis.
If you're following me on Twitter, please can you take a minute to complete my survey
£100 or £200?
I thought the bet was £100. You've put our side as £200 above, but kept yours at £100. Is this a typo? 8-)
£100 or £200?
Typo, unless you're feeling extra generous :-)
(Fixed, by the way...)
Two questions:
- if I would follow you because someone sent me a link to this post, do I count as one of the 250?
- do spammers (whether porn, rich-quick-schemes or marketeers) count?
If yes to the latter, you have a chance of losing the bet. Otherwise, I think you'll win.
-- Els
Two answers
First answer is yes (but I hadn't thought about folk passing links around, which sounds like a quick way to get stitched up!). If you can take the twittering nonsense I contribute without going insane or chewing off your right arm, then yes, you count.
Second - no - the auto-spammers and the like do not count :-)