Showing posts with label Scoble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scoble. Show all posts

Monday, April 06, 2009

Scobleizing Twitter


Robert Scoble made a name for himself as a pioneer in the blogosphere. At the time he was a Microsoft employee and he demonstrated how blogging could help large corporations have a more intimate dialog with parts of its customer base. Since he left to focus on being a blogger and general industry pundit he's been a man in demand, though he recently stepped down from his role at Fast Company 'to pursue a new venture.' Nobody can say that Scoble is a slouch when it comes to generating content. His blog seems to average three posts a day and his Twitter updates seem to occur every hour and often every few minutes, which brings me to my beef. Either Robert Scoble needs to eliminate 90% of his Twitter comments and turn them into blog entries, or he needs Twitter to create a longer format than 140 characters just for him so he can condense his updates and send them every few hours. As it stands when I open Twitter all I see are comments form him and the occasional comment from Brian Solis. Given Twitter also suffers from almost daily overloads I can't help but wonder how much of that is because of people like Robert Scoble. For those of us that like Twitter, please back off Robert - you're overloading the system.