Posts tagged social networking
Damn Fail Whale
Jun 16th
Ahhh. The Twitter Fail Whale, now that picture instantly raises my anxiety level. I was an early Twitter adopter as a Public Relations Professional and the first hundred or so Fail Whales I received weren’t a big deal. I would smile at the silly image and do something else. I’d cruise Facebook and wait a few hours until the tweets had stopped overwhelming the little birdies.
Here I am 1.5 years later as a Social Media Manager, swearing every time I see those damn birds carrying a whale. Put down the f*c**n whale and get my tweets up! I have sH*t do here guys.
Seriously? This one image makes me want to throw something, I just spent 5 minutes putting together the perfect 140 charater tweet with enough room left for re-tweeting!!! and now my tweet is gone and I am too pissed off to re-write it. Not to mention I had to shorten the url myself! Does the whale need all those birds? Can’t one be auto shortening my links?
Yes I know, there are plenty of Tweetme’s and Tweetdecks I can be using that seamlessly swim past these pathetic whales complete with url shorteners, but admit it, there are times when you have to go Twitter. Tweetdeck likes to freeze on me and make annoying spinning noises, so I often prefer to use Twitter for some simple tweeting and DM’s.
Sometimes its good to stick to the basics. I get a bit of nostalgia logging onto Twitter, but I am not sure I can handle anymore Fail Whales. I wonder if my doctor will prescribe me Xanax on the grounds of social media platform rejection by silly images?
Oh and if you know how to turn the Tweetdeck pop-up spinning noise making box off please save me.
Move over Craigslist, There’s a new Bird in town
May 20th
I’ve met several of my closet friends through Craigslist. Being a San Francisco girl, Craigslist helped me find several roommates after college in 2002 and sell my first car, a dodge neon.
Craigslist was one of the first social media platforms that connected people to buy, sell, rent and more. It’s now grown to be the 35th most popular site according to google. Has Craigslist gotten too big for its britches? Maybe… but it also seems a bit old school for me, as it brings back memories of Top Ramen and living with 5 people, 3 cats and 3 bathrooms. My hat still goes off to Craigslist as this “list” definitely paved the way for more innovative listing platforms.
Watchout Craig Newman! There’s a new bird in town, Adbirds. The Austin-based company has Craigslist capabilities with a bit more feathers.
Adbirds features utilize social media’s sharing capabilities with buttons to share items for sale with friends on twitter, facebook, digg etc. Its an easy way to get your items in front of more buyers. The interface is amazingly simple and easily connects you to where you want to be. Want to add 10 pics and embed video links? No prob.
The free accounts come with a unique user name and URL address, and easy pay features. Any Free account can run 5 ads at a time.
Did I mention community love? All Adbirds users are encouraged to help build awareness of a local favorite organization with name and web link using the “favorite charity” identifier from the account manager. So while you’re trying to make a few bucks off your old baseball card collection you can support your favorite charity, the name and link of the charity will appear at the top of every ad.
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