The Tweeters (and checkmarks online)
Friday, 28 April 2023
by Paul O'Brien
Now, the most important tweeters Had profiles with marksThe plain-profile tweeters had none but remarks. Those marks weren’t so big. They were really so small.You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all. But because they had marks, all the mark-profiled tweetersWould tweet, “We’re the best tweeters here, you know that we’re real!”With their keys
- Published in Fun, Social Media
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I Bought my First NFT, Not for the Reason You Might Think
Monday, 27 September 2021
by Paul O'Brien
It’s difficult today, online, if you’re paying any attention all to cryptocurrency or media innovation, to not have heard “NFT” A .gif of Nyan Cat sold for lots and lots (and lots) of money as an NFT. These things have interest near hype from Nike, Visa, Warner Music Group, and Nike. Time Magazine‘s recently sold 4,500 TIMEPieces in
- Published in Insights / Research, Social Media
An Internet Bill of Rights
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
by Paul O'Brien
In 2018, some, in the U.S. Congress, proposed an Internet Bill of Rights that though well intentioned, was essentially a set of regulations proposed to adhere companies to obligations with regard to data, security, and privacy. At the time, I thought little of it; the notion didn’t get a tremendous amount of attention, but nagging
- Published in Industry, Insights / Research
The Impossible Situation of Facebook
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
by Paul O'Brien
For a few months now, Facebook has been gently testing post voting changes that might substantially change our experience with comments and posts on the dominant social media platform. Today, the feature rolled out more broadly, sparking more and more reaction to the changes and a litany of “why??” questions from frequent Facebook users. What
- Published in Social Media
Too Frequently Asked: How difficult is it to get 20,000 unique visitors a month from Google?
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
by Paul O'Brien
It’s actually quite easy BUT keep in mind SEO is not a specific, single channel. You will NOT get there by URLs, keywords, and links alone. Google is looking for high quality results for their users and there are an increasing number of metrics used to determine that you are delivering as much. The thought
- Published in Advertising, Natural Search / SEO, PR, Search
How Top Startup CEOs and VCs Find Time to Tweet so Much
Wednesday, 17 October 2018
by Paul O'Brien
I was peppered with this question six ways to Sunday recently and honestly, I couldn’t help but wonder if the public attention on Trump and Elon Musk’s tweets, haven’t had something to do with everyone asking how (or really why) these people in presumably busy and important roles, manage the time to bother tweeting. In
- Published in Social Media, Startups
The Social Intelligence Industry is in Austin
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
by Paul O'Brien
A short time ago, I started exploring the significance of industry on an economy; the role that it plays in creating awareness of, drawing talent to, engaging capital on behalf of, and focusing a community around, innovation and entrepreneurship. If you’ve read here before, you know I’m something of a Druckerist, a student of Peter