Guilty as charged! It’s a been a slow start to the year here at Blogging With Dr P…. I believe I’ve spent too much time over on Facebook, and neglected you all here – my vast hoard internet web spider search engine bots, and the occasional real person that drops by

And it isn’t for the lack of not having anything to blog about – oh no. I think it’s more of a “getting the time” thing. But Facebook, and Twitter, (where I have been experimenting with all these “Automate Your Twitter Account” systems etc), and other distracting things have kept me away from the two things I like the most on the internet – making money, and writing my blog.

The web hosting and domain costs keep rolling in, but the Google Adsense revenue and other affiliate stuff I’m “into” keeps rapidly falling. I think I’m going to write an e-book and sell it through e-Bay and on here. It’s probably going to be about the “Making Money With Twitter” experiments I’ve been doing lately. That should make a few bucks

Incidentally, if you trip over a bag contains large wads of cash – it’s mine – and there’s a “Finders Reward” as well – lucky you!

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Twitter Investigation. Day 130 million – or so it seems.

Okay, I have dipped my two into the pool of social media they call Twitter. I have rippled the surface of the Twitter pool with my investigative Poo Sticks to see which floats under the bridge the quickest – and why. Here are my conclusions:

98.9%, (perhaps a bit more), of people who have over 50 followers on Twitter have some kind of automation on their account. It’s just not practical/possible to keep Twittering to over 50 people on a personal 1-2-1 basis. Of course, if you’re a BIG business or celebrity you may hire a few cheap, (sorry – “out sourced”), overseas students to Tweet for you 24/7. But, in the main – there’s a whole lot of automation going on.

Interestingly, Twitter do say:

While we do welcome feed-based accounts, we discourage aggressive following and other tactics that will alarm people.

Of the 98.9% Twitter Automatons – most of them are trying to sell you something – or drive traffic to their website…. to sell you something there. Whilst, in principle, I commend the use of Twitter as a marketing tool, there are still some who actually see Twitter as to what it was originally designed/described to be:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others’ updates, known as tweets.

– and not the grossly over commercialised beast that it’s turning into.

I’m still experimenting with Twitter. If you want to be a real person and talk about real stuff – then come join me here: Paul Flanagan On Twitter – and no spamming please!

p.s. yes that’s 3 underscores between Paul and Flanagan

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