Comments on: Magpie

By: christinajade

christinajade — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:55:42 +0000

i be lovin’ you, too, my friend

hope you and SQ can have beer friday

By: newscoma

newscoma — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:55:40 +0000

Keep us posted. That looks pretty good and for your business, I think this might be a groovy thing.
P.S. I’d follow you to the moon.

By: christinajade

christinajade — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:37:36 +0000

ok, so i am giving magpie 3 days after signing up last night, and so far, i think i like it. professionally, anyway. yesterday i had 102 hits on my site, this morning (after magpie) i had over 300. i lost 1 follower, but gained 4.

how do i feel about it personally? i’ll let you know…

By: christinajade

christinajade — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:00:26 +0000

i’m looking into it for advertising for my jewelry site. i am stuck on this one, twitter is both personal and professional for me, so i am torn.

i sure could use the advertising, though. hmmm

By: Ginger

Ginger — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:53:02 +0000

LOL…that would be the one and only advantage to the infamous “I-24=parking lot” Tweets that are the bane of my existence!

By: newscoma

newscoma — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:19:48 +0000

I hadn’t considered that. Yup, there is a market, indeed there is.

By: jim voorhies

jim voorhies — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:16:27 +0000

But wouldn't this mean that Ginger could make money off I-24 traffic? How could that be bad?

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:52:07 +0000

I’m on the fence on this one. Like sadcox, tweets are mine. And I feel like it’s my ONE place where I can still have control of what is thrown at me. I get follower requests all the time. And I look closely to see what the person requesting to follow me is about. If I sniff the slightest of advertising or that they’re trying to sell me something, forget it.

I like twitter for the sense of community it gives. I like that I can hear about news from around town from the Nashville locals, and the breaking stuff from CNN and the NYT. For me, it’s like somebody whispering in my ear with tidbits of information throughout the day. Luckily, I’m able to exact some power and control over what is being whispered to me.

I get marketing — that’s part of what I do. But to take away one of the final frontiers from me where I can have some peace and quiet from being sold to? no thanks.

That said, I enjoy people linking their blogs – like you – but I read you anyway, so no need to sell something I’ve already bought into.

Entertaining and thoughtful writing sells itself.

By: sadcox

sadcox — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:30:21 +0000

I’m a raging capitalist, but I draw the line at Twitter. I agree–tweets are mine, even though I don’t have enough followers to make money anyway. If anything, it’s a marketing tool to get people to actually read your blog. Also not a bad place to sort out what you want to write an actual post about.