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pauline hanson the 17th comments on I love the web 3

pauline hanson the 17th — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:58:45 +0000

hahahaaa hey jonin!! how farked is gumtree now. you've got a total of 5 posters now! AND eva is a MOD!! hahaha you couldn't make it up. stoopid carnt!

Jeremy Vyle comments on Chrome OS is coming

Jeremy Vyle — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:51:08 +0000

Chrome *IS* a fucking browser you numpty, so of course ChromeOS is "very browser-based". And as for not being able to set up Ubuntu...

You must be a right twatting n00b.

Jan Woodhouse comments on Peer to Peer Recruitment Using Twitter and LinkedIn

Jan Woodhouse — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:49:09 +0000

I am a Training Manager for a Recruitment Consultancy. This is a good post. Not because I think your right, but because you describe quite cleverly the issues the competent, experienced consultants have to put up with. There are a lot of cowboy recruiters out there like you describe...

And I agree with the Agency model being flawed - personally I wouldn't use Agencies either. They have their place, but Consultancies are the ones who are PAID to KNOW what they are talking about.

Interesting Read!

Jon M Bishop comments on Trending competitions are rubbish

Jon M Bishop — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:33:35 +0000

Cause girls are pretty!

Andre comments on Trending competitions are rubbish

Andre — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:51:31 +0000

Once upon a time there were two boys, arguing.
Along came a girl, and said her piece.
The boys looked at her, then each other, and suddenly, silently they were on the same side.
Girls have that effect.

Jon M Bishop comments on Trending competitions are rubbish

Jon M Bishop — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:10:41 +0000

@shebeegee Ha ha! Unfollow is for quitters!

And I do think we should give a f--k because it is our industry and if we didn't put pressure on companies to protect us from evil doings, spam, scams and other bad things would destroy Twitter and the internet!

This article is an example

SheBee comments on Trending competitions are rubbish

SheBee — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:04:27 +0000

looky here, I have to agree with both of you boys:

a) yes - #moonfruit in a general tweet does seem rather pointless. but also,
b) like andre mentioned, it's working for them on Alexa. therefore,
c) who gives a f*ck?

i've kinda adopted the attitude of glazing over hashtags containing fruit of the moon or an oddly symmetrical space shape too. even though i'm guilty of partaking in both compo's once each.

to each their own, lovelies. and at a last resort - unfollow button ftw!

xox

Jon M Bishop comments on Trending competitions are rubbish

Jon M Bishop — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:56:39 +0000

@andrevr, yeah it is rubbish of Twitter to pull it down without explanation. But saying it is for monetary purposes is as unfounded as me assuming Moonfruit didn't get any traffic out of this campaign. We could also assume that Moonfruit are strategically reaction in anger/disasppointment to milk the PR opportunity.

I feel Twitter are protecting their users from trending spam as it is becoming an issue that could kill trending topics. It happened to us when #Tweetcamp got spammed which put a damper on the acheivement.

Also remember that if it is a monetary issue, Twitter needs to monetize eventually otherwise it will just disappear which is no good for us and every other Twitter user.

Andre comments on Trending competitions are rubbish

Andre — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:51:48 +0000

I read the Moonfruit respose last night. And I agree with their assessment that it was a little rude of Twitter not to answer or engage them about it. I suspect (as do others) that Twitter is simply flexing in order to protect functionality that they hope to monetise, as in sell to large enterprise for MONEY...:), from being too funned-down and played with, so reducing it's value in the eyes of the stern-faced cheque signers.

Jon M Bishop comments on Trending competitions are rubbish

Jon M Bishop — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:36:10 +0000

Woah @andrevr! essay! You are a character I'll give you that.

All valid points those Andre, and you are correct, I didn't check out the Alexa rankings so I could be wrong on that account. I still stand by my point that it messes up the good natured, collaborative intentions of hashtags.

Oh and amazingly soon after I wrote this article, Twitter pulled the Moonfruit hashtag from the trending topics! They must have read it and agreed with me
;-) Read it here