Archive for December, 2008

• Notice how the burger you get looks NOTHING like the burger in the ad that brought you 2 the burger in the first place http://bit.ly/2sDGzS #
• Damn … just reached the 2000 following limit. Should have saved a few just incase, I’m not exactly burning up Twitter with followers yet #
• @drkilstein Look in iTunes Music folder using Windows Explorer or by choosing the Get Info command in iTunes http://bit.ly/pqdm in reply to drkilstein #
• @drkilstein in reference to iTunes … are you on a Mac or Windows PC ? in reply to drkilstein #
• Just noticed everyone has been using TweetDeck, Ijust switched to it from using Twhirl … wow, I felt so left behind #
• @workaholic1231 You’re welcome, I was up till 4am following as many people as I could from people I recognize online in reply to workaholic1231 #
• Can’t sleep … Gary Vaynerchuk has my head spinning with too many ideas – http://garyvaynerchuk.com/ #
• Checking out @MrTweet, my personal assistant for discovering the great followers and influencers in my network! http://mrtweet.net?c=11! #

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• @mikefilsaime I have to agree … Tweetlater.com is a great tool, funny thing is .. I just found it today in reply to mikefilsaime #
• @perrybelcher watched your social media videos. I know YouTube is the king of social video but what about Viddler.com? No 10 min limit in reply to perrybelcher #

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This is why I love the Internet … 

Over the weekend I have been consuming everything I could find from Perry Belcher, and just about the time when I figured I needed a break, I see a video on Perry’s blog. The video is from a guy named Gary Vaynerchuck, and if you don’t know who he is, take this as a warning. You will be glued to your computer for the next several hours.

Take a look at my favorite Gary Vee videos …

I just got done watching a few Perry Belcher videos about “Winning At Social Media“, and I got one of those ‘AHA’ type moments after one of his tips.

Before I get to the tip I must tell you … Perry’s information is addictive, he’s got a style that makes it fun and exciting to learn. As an example … Perry references social media as a huge party, and to treat it as such.

I remember signing up for Twitter back when it was only a couple of months old, but it wasn’t until last year that I created a username that reflects ‘ME’ ( http://www.twitter.com/ScottProck ). I always looked at Twitter and other forms of social media as a way of networking via web 2.0. 

It wasn’t until listening to Perry that I really see it now as a big online party, and it has brought the fun back into social media for me.

Now for the tip …

Perry mentioned (paraphrasing here) if you follow someone important to you and want to know who is important to them, just take a look at the first 10 people they started following.

Absolutely ‘BRILLIANT’ 

So I started looking back at the people I chose as influential in my Twitter group, and quickly realized it could take forever to get back to the first ten people of Tweeters like Robert Scoble - for example – with over 20k people he’s following on Twitter.

I started thinking this isn’t exactly the best tip since I won’t get back to Scoble’s first ten anytime this year. Lucky for me 2009 is just 4 days away

Then I saw the magic numbers up in the URL … when I clicked on <”following”  and then the <”next” page I noticed this at the end of the URL … /friends?page=2

Problem solved …

Just divide the number of people being followed by 20 (number of friends listed per page). In the case of Robert Scoble (at the time of this post) he’s following 20,815 people, divide that by 20 and you get 1040.75.

Now I know the magic page number of that first page – 1041 – so I just have to replace the /friends?page=2 with /friends?page=1041 and BINGO … I have the 20 people Robert Scoble chose to follow first.

THANK YOU Perry Belcher for what I’m calling the best Twitter tip EVER!

… Enjoy

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