What you don’t say matters

How does one person manage 720 Twitter accounts?

That is insane, Keith. Thank goodness you were the one to deal with him. You have the patience of Job …

There will be more of this in the future as more people discover Social Media. But the whole thing is a great case study in how to use Social Media. Keep up the good fight!

basically this guy has spun this- I have accounts I set up for myself, my business and clients – I also have set them up to do research in developing metric to track return of time and $ investment for my potential clients-
he's the first I ever followed to get freaked out enough to call me over this. Never have I employed any bots whatsoever nor have any accounts I've created ever been suspended for spam or ANYTHING his 140 is as much spam as anyone's-
I have not made anything even closely resembling any design of his. I believe we have a simple case of sour grapes/jealousy, fear who knows- who cares? while he was talking business I was writing some last night.
I won't stoop to his flurry of DM and negative spew of nonsense, I'll keep helping folks get the most bang for the buck, where I please – now as far as my phone call it was to the business listed as the place for the tweetup merely wanted to join a group of folks thinking they actually were positive -
only to find people trying to get into my business of how I do business – and yes I feel some of the group is beyond anti social after seeing this fellow trying to act like he makes the rules for the way folks want to use social media and the campaign to discredit me when I've done absolutely nothing but help people with IT for over 30 years.
btw 720 was never any number I gave perhaps he heard wrong – and I bet this reply is wiped. Like I said to tsudo on the phone I'm not here to butt heads with a jealous competitor, or any folks wanting to start a fight – how does this help your community? And absolutely no, I don't employ any automation on any accounts period. I do show clients how top use these when they have interest Mark F. and your guess was wrong sorry-
jumping to conclusions, next time you could just hit block? Of course that's not nearly as fun as speaking behind a persons back about something you are so CLUELESS about to start with – show one thing I've done that is not benevolent – oh yeah, you can't, because it does not exist! & you are a preacher? – get over yourself!

Thanks for stopping by Tim. Your comment is more than welcome here.

one thing that you've done that is not benevolent, is attempting to capitalize on the Little Rock Tweetup name and defraud people with the “TweetupLR” handle. we all know what you're trying to do. Again you can come by the REALl LRTweetup that you're trying to impersonate Thursday. Capital Bar & Grill Thursday 6PM, I'll be the guy using his real name…

I agree with Robby. I think the issue is with the use of the “LRTweetup” handle. I saw Keith's tweet warning of the account, and sure enough, you followed me shortly thereafter. As well as two other accounts. I believe I blocked the first account and then chose not to follow back the second two.
Usually, I follow back locals pretty much immediately.
I also saw a tweet from someone not within our local group (another state? Another country possibly?) that there was a phishing Tweetup account to watch out for. I thought it was a larger problem, more than just a local person. Regardless, I feel that your actions go against the spirit of what we are doing here locally.
Honestly, I would say kill the account and start a new one fresh if you really want to be involved. This is a cool group of people and I think we might like you, but you chose the wrong way. In this instance, mimicry is not the highest form of flattery.

Here's the thing bro, I'm not saying you had bad intentions, and I don't think Keith or anyone else was trying to say that either. I think that honestly you might have had expectations of fitting in w/ the LRTweetup community and were just like the kid in school that tried to hard to make the other kids like him and ended up pushing them away. Here's my two cents on the matter…

You have just as much right as anyone else to set your username to be “TweetupLR” but put yourself into the shoes of the people that have worked so hard to put together the “LRTweetup” and try to imagine how it might have been perceived. You see, w/ Social Media perception is huge! The “LRTweetup” community has grown since day one and consists of people from all walks of life. Differences of opinion are not uncommon w/in our group, in fact I would go as far as to say that a few of us are polar opposites of one another on various issues like Politics and Religion, but the one thing that “LRTweetup” has done is to bring all of us together through social media to focus on common issues facing our community. The “LRTweetup” folks should be commended for this. The fact that “LRTweetup” has already been established and has already taken on various causes and projects is what makes your use of the “TweetupLR” name a little hinky in my opinion. Again, w/ perception being important, I think that is why you were perceived as villanous from the onset. Had you approached the situation like a normal person using your real name I think that a lot of this could have been avoided. Just saying, hindsight is 20/20.

To continue, I think by calling someone at their place of business to find out why they blocked you on Twitter stinks like a fart in an elevator. As someone who proclaims to consult with clients on the use of Social Media you should know better! As someone who has been using Twitter since 2007, I have seen it used for a lot of things by a lot of people, some agendas I don't agree with, but to each their own, I just unfollow and move on, but in your case, I don't think I have ever seen one user bring on as much resistance as you have… Maybe you should retool your approach.

Now, to address some of your other comments. I know Keith personally, and I have the utmost respect for Keith. I can tell you this, he in no way felt threatened by you my friend. Just take a look at Keith's street cred, he's a well liked dude with lots of friends who value his opinion, can you say the same? On another note, you tweeted last night to someone that there were a few elements or people in the “LRTweetup” community that were anti-social, that, my friend could not be further from the truth. You don't even know any of us, so who's spewing nonsense now?

On another one of your tweets I think you mentioned moving to LR to open up your own Web Design Company, was that supposed to be perceived as a threat? If so, I don't think you even understand the industry you are in. You see, in LR, we have another social driven community that once a month meets up to discuss topics related to our industry, we call it the Central Arkansas Refresh, we met last night. You might find this a bit odd but we are all real straight up w/ each other in Central Arkansas, even share information from one company to another for the greater good of our industry and clients. I gathered from the tone of your tweet that you might not share the same perspective so that makes me question you as a professional…

I apologize for the long rant, I just felt compelled to speak out as a member of the community.

I follow Keith because his tweets are authentic, interesting, enlightening and original. Crazy thing is, Keith is the same way when you meet him in person. Interesting how that works.

so glad you enjoyed my failures Bryan- and I liked your slide-show, I had help in my past business experiences from all these good intention folks who talk nice and then go belly up owing me dough, rogue salespeople and other niceties beyond my improper management- I pick myself up and try again, now I address folks if I have something to say and try not to be quick on criticism or find any faults with them, especially folks I've never met with exception of elected officials, and certain folks who'd promote some agenda to attack anyone unfairly, so far no one in this has brought up a single case of anything I'll lose any sleep over- Now I've addressed this comment to you- not to someone about you, as if I owe you any explanation -
by all means make this personal, I can dig if you don't like something I've done to hurt anyone; but I'm really not about that, I changed the tweetuplr name, which I offered to do in the phone call with your buddy ironic isn't it? A simple “yes please change the name” sure would have been drama free- “of course circle the wagons & send for the cavalry a stranger is coming!” gives this blog some hits, and you nice folks someone to point out and look down your nose at.

so glad you enjoyed my failures Bryan- and I liked your slide-show, I had help in my past business experiences from all these good intention folks who talk nice and then go belly up owing me dough, rogue salespeople and other niceties beyond my improper management- I pick myself up and try again, now I address folks if I have something to say and try not to be quick on criticism or find any faults with them, especially folks I've never met with exception of elected officials, and certain folks who'd promote some agenda to attack anyone unfairly, so far no one in this has brought up a single case of anything I'll lose any sleep over- Now I've addressed this comment to you- not to someone about you, as if I owe you any explanation -
by all means make this personal, I can dig if you don't like something I've done to hurt anyone; but I'm really not about that, I changed the tweetuplr name, which I offered to do in the phone call with your buddy ironic isn't it? A simple “yes please change the name” sure would have been drama free- “of course circle the wagons & send for the cavalry a stranger is coming!” gives this blog some hits, and you nice folks someone to point out and look down your nose at.