by Will Marlow | Feb 22, 2010 | Original Blog
Google launched Buzz 13 days ago, and after spending some time getting to know it better, I wanted to write a quick introduction for people who are still wondering (a) how it works, (b) how it’s different from other social media platforms and (c) why they might...
by Will Marlow | Feb 17, 2010 | Original Blog
A few years ago, it was very fashionable for schools to invest heavily in building custom social networks that were designed for their alums to use. The upside of building your own social network is that you own all the data, and you make all the big decisions...
by Will Marlow | Jan 20, 2010 | Original Blog
A lot of people who are very knowledgeable and experienced at leveraging Twitter do not understand the point of the “Retweet” button that Twitter launched last year. It doesn’t make sense to them for a number reasons, including: 1. It was...
by Will Marlow | Jan 15, 2010 | Original Blog
In 24 hours, I have lost another 100 followers. (Remember, on the first night, I lost almost 2,000 followers, which must include all the people who use applications to auto-unfollow people who are no longer following them.) As the chart shows, my follower count...
by Will Marlow | Jan 13, 2010 | Original Blog
As this chart from Twitterholic shows, less than 24 hours after unfollowing 12,000 people, I was unfollowed by over 3,500 followers! My first observations/conclusions are as follows: 1. So far, no one from the list of people I interact with regularly has unfollowed...
