Tag Archive: @jimconnolly

Twitter and me

February 15, 2009
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As you might already know, I stopped using my @jimconnolly Twitter account on 31st of January.  The reason for this, was that following over 20,000 people took up way too much time – largely because of the hundreds of Direct Messages I received each day, (often over 400 a day and occasionally over 600).
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Why I’m leaving Twitter!

January 30, 2009
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It’s sad, but the time has come for me to leave Twitter.  At the time of writing this, the three most followed people in England are; John Cleese, Stephen Fry and then me.  I have made some great connections because of Twitter and met a lot of interesting people too.  Twitter has been a great [...]

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The Twitter follower mystery

January 22, 2009
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Mike Butcher – The UK & Ireland Editor for Techcrunch, sent me a couple of tweets today and also an email.  By the time Mike emailed me, he thought I had to be using a robot or something, to have developed such a great twitter network so quickly!  We spoke and by the end of [...]

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No advertising or sponsors!

December 13, 2008
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I’ve mentioned previously that this blog was never intended as a tool to generate advertising, sponsorship or affiliate income. I said at the time that the only way I would have any kind of paid ads here, was if it was for a product I use, love and endorse. 
On review, I have decided not [...]

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Building your twitter network

December 11, 2008
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If you want to develop a high quality, large network of ‘followers’ on twitter; you will find what I am about to share with you extremely interesting!
As you know, the best way to build any high quality network, is to make sure you are connecting with the right kind of people for you and your [...]

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Seth Godin and Twitter

November 26, 2008
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A number of people contacted me yesterday, with a link to this post on Seth Godin’s excellent blog. In his post, Seth warns people about using Twitter. His argument is that it’s easy to be misunderstood, so you should avoid it for anything important or controversial, unless you want people to “assume you are an [...]

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Focus on people – Not ‘hits’!

November 10, 2008
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Because of the amazing growth of this blog, since I started marketing it just 9 weeks ago, I am getting a lot of people asking me the same question:
Could you take a quick look at my blog / website Jim and give me some tips for how to get more traffic?
This question is based on [...]

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