The Twitter Effect.

Twitter is really a cool name for "Free Hype Tool" for anything.

So, we have the burden to filter.

I will admit that I am a Twitter-Freak (@RickVanover), but not everyone is on Twitter - much less uses their account.

There definitely is an effect, and I think it is overall positive. Now, there is still an undetermined burden of verification and considering the source with Twitter traffic that is yet to be clearly handled.

by santeewelding Jul 19, 2009

You confine your sophisticated judgment about verification alone to Twitter?

The whole net gets that, but trying to stay "On Topic"

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=942

and control what is presented because of the financial impact.

Then there is the reputation impact. There is a discussion on the woman who is suing for the identity of the individual. See Toni Bowers article:

I certainly think that young people are the ones most suceptable to "herd mentality" thus are the target for the advertising mojo to influence them.

Anyone who follows the mass marketers get exactly what they deserve.
There isn't a day goes by when I don't pick up a new follower. I check out their Twitter feed to see what they're like and very seldom follow anyone who is following me.
Twitter isn't the same for everyone. My OH has thousands of followers and follows a thousand plus. I follow 9 people because that's enough for me.
Herd mentality influenced by an advertising mojo on Twitter? I just have to laugh at that. :^0

by jdclyde Jul 19, 2009

The only advantage of twitter over the conventional critics is you can pick and choose the twits that twitter at you.

Hopefully by listening to like minded people you will be directed to like minded products.

When talking movies or music, the awards at the end of the year are always a joke, and much less representative of what REAL people think. I think something like twitter can take and show what real people think about real products.

especially celebrities:

What better way to "socialize" and thus have influence.

Note: use as an example only and not meant to reflect any one person or personal beliefs.

Maybe a better term is Crowd Psychology...

From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_behavior

"Ordinary people can typically gain direct power by acting collectively. Historically, because large groups of people have been able to bring about dramatic and sudden social change in a manner that bypasses established due process, they have also provoked controversy"

I don't imply that those here on Techrepublic follow herd mentality or crowd psychology, rather that the advertising shown on Techrepublic tries to influence those who frequent this site as well as other technology sites using herd mentality or crowd psychology. If we perceive them as authority, we might believe what they say rather than making judging for ourselves.

lol but sure there is advertising mojo on twitter. Many celebrities twitter and who best to influence when they have hundreds of thousands of followers?

Maybe Twitter Effect isn't the right phrase rather Ripple Effect. One person says one this and it Ripples to all who follow...

don't you think you, OntheRopes or JDClyde, or TheChas, Sonja, or Jason or Toni, or Tammy, or Mike Kassner, or any of the others here who post or have blogs... such as FNM or the Garden Club, or even are in the elite group of swag owners have an influence on those who come here?

begins with you, in the flesh, in your mind. You affect others, they affect you. Twitter is but one more opportunists tool for manipulating the ripple.

All the same, the ripple can't be manipulated without willing manipulees.

by santeewelding Jul 19, 2009

I double-checked my spelling of, "unconscionably".

Other dillweeds have a negative influence. (Not talking about you-BTW)
It's kind of difficult for me to take anything you say about Twitter seriously without you being signed up to it. Who cares if you have any followers? Ain't nothing but a thang.
There are plenty of people worth following, people from TR for instance.
As far as celebrities go, for me, I follow both Penn and Teller and, believe it or not, Ellen DeGeneres.
Penn Jillette has a refreshing, irreverent view of the world and frequently posts profanity laced video clips on PennSays that I find are often worth watching. I can't say that they influence me one way or another.
Some people are obsessed with Twitter. Don't become one of the obsessed crowd that isn't even signed up. Sign up for it, see what it's all about, in it's drip dried glory, (inside joke) and then tell us what you think. Until you do you're just going to look...silly.

Used in pickle making. :D :D :D
I have yet to figure which herb makes for the yodel. Maybe it's the vinegar or salt.

does anyone here really care that you can't take anything I say about Twitter seriously? Will they discount the thread because they take your word for it? Boxie for example? How about JD? Old Mycroft? The Scummy One?

Do you, by virtue of being OnTheRopes and discount my posts influence others?

If you do, then you are showing, by example, The Twitter Effect, The Herd Mentality, [crowd psychology].

You influence others and because they like you, also see these posts as silly and discount them. I'll bet because Boxie considers you a friend, can here to read what you post and was influenced by it.

What do you say Boxie? were you influenced by what OnTheRopes said that I'm silly and the posts should not be taken seriously?

by boxfiddler Jul 20, 2009

with Palmies agreement with Ropes.

it's because [b]my[/b] mind giggles.

The Twitter Effect in action.

Do you giggle because someone else says their silly ? or is what is written simply silly?

the thread started out about Twitter and it's effect on movie sales and advertising. How advertising effects us and tries to pursuade us to buy stuff through the use of group dynamics.

What I think is silly because I think it's silly, not because someone else does. I'm way too old for all that peer pressure crap. Long past, pal.

Your posts stand on their own whether or not you appear silly to me. BTW-I said silly because that would get past the censor. Feel free to use your imagination.
Hmmm... Do I think that this TR crowd has a herd mentality?
:^0
That'd be a no.
Describe to me what it feels like to drive a Dodge Viper on the Bonneville salt flats. You can't because (barring some miracle) you haven't done it. It's the same about Twitter, unless you're a participant, anything you say about it positively or negatively just isn't going to influence me. Note I used the word me.
TR is made up of a group of, for the most part, highly intelligent individuals, not a herd mentality to be found anywhere.
Join Twitter why don't you? Takes a couple of minutes. Then come back and you'll see how... silly you sound.

20 somethings? and what are all the social networking sites, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook geared for?

The old farts like us who aren't easily influenced?

isn't doing their job if critical thinking is disappearing. Parents, teachers...

Manipulees proliferate, ain't Twitter's or Facebook's fault. And, in case you haven't noticed, opportunism abounds within human characteristics.

it's advertising that was the whole point and how the advertising is geared for those more easily influenced than those who know better. It's not that those on Techrepublic have herd mentality, quite the contrary, but the advertisers and the advertising are geared for such that are influenced by peers such as the teens and 20 somethings.

Even Ernest made a post last week or so about the offensive flash advertising.

How about this? of all the advertising banners, links, downloads, videos, webcasts that are selling something that appear on the pages of Techrepublic, how many have you actually clicked on, read, watched etc?

How much do you think is simply junk like junk emails trying to sell something?

I've been coming here for so long now that I don't even pay any attention to the ads. For those that do, more power to them. Personally, I've been known to leave the room while watching a good program on TV when a commercial comes on.
Care what DE says, if you must.

But it definitely gets the word out.

by santeewelding Jul 19, 2009

You're wandering off the edge.

I was first to respond to your post on the basis of "you or your company".

Now, usually, I am slavish about taking someone at their word. But that one time I confess to having glossed over your use of, "effect", dismissing it as the work of someone in a hurry.

Now, I will not. I will hold you to your word. To "effect" me or my company means literally to cause either to come into existence.

Justify it, or shut up.