Personal experience with twitter has provided insights. None of them will be organized into an e-book and offered for download (either free or otherwise). But in my opinion a mistake I made was when I checked out Twellow and picked a few categories to start out and soon realized they were the wrong ones. It took little time to hear from every person trying to market something, grow their affiliates list, make it big online by telling me how to make it big online (at a cost), promoting product(s) to make me healthier, and so on seemingly to infinity as they became my followers. Seriously, how many times can you read the same worn out 140 characters about curing heart disease or diabetes before you wouldn’t buy even if it were true?
Since then many of those have been weeded from my following list but there are still some and I must admit there are times when I find myself both amused and befuddled how some choose their 140 characters. The most recent example appeared last evening (9-23-09). I copied and pasted the text as quoted below but not the product link (can’t even recall what type health product it was):
“One simple lifestyle change you can make today that could lower your death rate by 60%.”
Uh, yeahhhhh…lower my death rate by 60%! Let’s see here, lower my death rate by 60%. I may be mostly agnostic but for the sake of this rant it’s a bit hard to fathom that since Adam and Eve and their “original sin” there has ever been anything less than a 100% death rate. Well hell, for that matter even if I were atheist I think we’d all agree the death rate has been and remains 100%. Seems to me the “grim reaper” is not particularly prejudiced either. He doesn’t care where you live, what color you are, what religion (or not), your social status or anything else for that matter, there’s a 100% death rate.
Perhaps I don’t recall what the heck product was being offered, and for a good reason: maybe someone else will word their promo right and entice me into buying the product. As for the person that offered to lower my death rate 60%, I know their username and I’ll take my business elsewhere.
