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- gkbd, on 01/26/2009, -0/+272start digg?
- inactive, on 01/26/2009, -2/+179Yeah. Kevin Rose has 88,000 followers because he did those 10 things.
...Not because he's the owner of Digg. - JasonCox, on 01/26/2009, -4/+150How to increase your Twitter followers-
Step #1: Invent a time machine
Step #2: Go back in time
Step #3: Realize you've gone back into the 50's in a plot that seems all too familiar in which no Internet, Twitter or Digg exist
Step #4: Attempt to go back to the future before going insane from Internet Withdrawal
Step #5: Realize you've gone way to far into the future since Digg.com now redirects to Giggle.com and Kevin Rose is promoting Windows 13 in a holomercial
Step #6: Try to go back in time again, this time arriving at the correct point in time
Step #7: Steal Kevin's parking spot at TechTV, Kevin gets pissed, quits TechTV
Step #8: Go on air with TechTV, replacing Kevin Rose
Step #9: Go on to found Digg
Step #10: You now have 100,000 followers on Twitter, congratulations! - Mist0r_Wiggles, on 01/26/2009, -2/+145step 11: Become Kevin Rose!
- DigiDave, on 01/26/2009, -1/+109This EXACT same list wouldn't get 3.5 diggs if it weren't
a. On Techcrunch.
b. written by Kevin Rose.
I'm not hating: I'll go ahead and join the cluster-digg. But I think this is something the Digg community needs to figure out. Do we find good content - or do we just find content that fits? - d2002, on 01/26/2009, -5/+87Step 1: Create your own Digg site or a site of Digg-like popularity.
- MrScotchBoy, on 01/26/2009, -10/+84Wait, is Kevin Rose giving tips on how to "game" Twitter, when they hate people gaming digg?
- DavidChouinard, on 01/26/2009, -2/+691. Spam every episode of diggnation with your twitter account.
2. Do the exact same thing with the super-duper popular website you happen to have created. - Snoosy, on 01/26/2009, -5/+56Kevin Rose article = Automatic front page. It could be Kevin Rose crapping on a baby's forehead and people would still Digg it.
Actually I think I'd rather see that than a Twitter article. - icexe, on 01/26/2009, -0/+49Next up:
Ten ways to become every woman's fantasy, by Brad Pitt - thefirelane, on 01/26/2009, -2/+46Can someone answer an honest question: Why would you want more twitter followers?
I honestly don't get it... Yes, I must have at least 200 more people I don't know being informed when I buy a Starbucks Chai.
Am I missing something? - Crash1337, on 01/26/2009, -3/+44“link it up.” Put links to your Twitter profile everywhere.
https://twitter.com/crash1337
ok kevin you said it. - ashes0, on 01/26/2009, -0/+38Own a multi million dollar social news site.
- neo991lb, on 01/26/2009, -1/+37Step 1: Realize no one cares about your Twitter.
Step 2: Realize you don't care about other people's Twitter
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit! - johndatserakis, on 01/26/2009, -0/+30*taking notes*
- m3mn0n, on 01/26/2009, -0/+25The point of twitter/facebook/myspace/etc for most people is to stay in touch with friends, not be as e-popular as you can.
Strategizing about marketing your twitter profile is as stupid as adding everyone you just barely remember/recognize from school on facebook just to boost your friend count. Or adding everyone you possibly can to your digg friend list to help promote your stories.
kevin, of course, has a vested business interest in being as e-popular as possible. For the rest of the world, this article is useless. - andyd2k, on 01/26/2009, -4/+29It still boggles my mind that people care enough to know what others are doing every moment of the day when they don't even know the person. What's the point?
- psychotron, on 01/26/2009, -0/+24So this it it? This is web 2.0? Having a bunch of people "follow" someone else's inane random words about the color of the dump they just took? Fantastic, sign me up! I'm passing a 2 pounder right now...
- ridd1e, on 01/26/2009, -0/+2211. Have insanely popular tech show and ask for ***** followers every goddamn episode.
- Humpasaur, on 01/26/2009, -0/+201. Be famous, or
2. You're *****. - azureskies88, on 01/26/2009, -1/+17Not to criticize Twitter or anything, but I honestly don't get the point either. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out, so I actively try to get the point, and yet it still eludes me. Perhaps someone could educate me?
- insanebrain, on 01/26/2009, -0/+16Who ***** cares. .. Twitter is just a simple one-liner site.
- RegalBegal, on 01/26/2009, -2/+17*pukes*
- CivicTV, on 08/14/2009, -0/+14FWD:FWD:FWD: 10 ways to increase your e-penis size!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
- krustie, on 01/26/2009, -10/+24Twitter is for tards
- surfernerd6987, on 01/26/2009, -1/+14Hmm, step #11. Be a chick on Twitter. Desperate guys will add and follow you like lost puppy dogs.
- Kennui, on 01/26/2009, -0/+13you'd probably be 2nd most followed if that happened
- artfuldodga, on 01/26/2009, -0/+11now only if i had free macbook airs to give away...
- mizike, on 01/26/2009, -2/+14What's next? Barak Obama's tips to become the #1 followed user on Twitter: "Run a successful campaign for the U.S. Presidency!". I can't believe people actually dugg this onto the front page, oh wait, this is digg and it has "kevin rose" in the title, the algorithm probably automatically promoted it to the front page upon submission.
- CTRaiderThe1st, on 01/26/2009, -0/+12"redirects to Giggle.com", that was pretty funny. I had to read holomercial twice, at first I thought it said homomercial. : P
- DraganDragan, on 01/26/2009, -0/+11.. coming soon ...
Evan Williams: 10 Ways To Attract Diggs - TVarmy, on 01/26/2009, -4/+15If he takes down twitter, Digg can only become stronger. With the combined power of Digg and Twitter refuges, we can finally destroy Reddit.
- Altair27, on 01/26/2009, -0/+11and still to come:
HOW TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION by Billy Mays - pault107, on 01/26/2009, -0/+10A video of Kevin Rose crapping on mrbabymans forehead would do well.
- kingofnexus, on 01/26/2009, -0/+9Who's Kevin Rose?
- WhoRadley, on 01/26/2009, -3/+12I see your point but Kevin Rose is the authority on this matter
Who better to tell people how to get more followers than the guy who has more followers on twitter than anyone who is not the leader of the free world?
Make your case when Kevin Rose writes an article about Chicken recipes and it gets a lot of diggs. - fuzzmeister, on 01/26/2009, -0/+9...and was on TechTV for years and is part of the most popular video podcast on the web. Nah, it's obviously all about retweeting. Yep.
- metmarko, on 01/26/2009, -1/+10Hehe yes definitely! In Kevin Rose's situation being a tech celebrity helps a lot.
For "normal" people it is harder to do it, but it is still possible to build a good Twitter following. Follow people, be interesting, tweet helpful resources, answer to people's questions, do twitter-bait and get famous twitterers to respond back to you...
I have collected these and other tips at http://www.twittermarketingbook.com - phatedesigns, on 01/26/2009, -0/+9seconded. poop = funny
- ravendesigner, on 01/26/2009, -1/+9Put links to your twitter account everywhere? OK!!
http://twitter.com/drmayhem - ahussain1986, on 01/26/2009, -1/+9homomercial seems more accurate.
- thefirelane, on 01/26/2009, -0/+8Your "answer" is the very definition of "begging the question"
Me: Why do you want more views
You: So you have more views!
That was, kinda, my question... - eschompthis, on 01/26/2009, -0/+8total ***** Kevin, I love you for creating digg but everyone knows the only way you get that amount is if you have an online show asking for followers
- omjeremy, on 01/26/2009, -0/+8Holy crap... KEVIN ROSE is asking us all to spam DIGG with our twitter account? WTF is he smoking?
- thefirelane, on 01/26/2009, -1/+8wouldn't it be just as easy for people to follow your blog?
Perhaps I don't get twitter... but what are you posting there that doesn't go on your blog?
"writing new blog story now"
"still writing"
"posting now"
"story posted"
? - das7282, on 01/26/2009, -8/+16What's Twitter? ;-)
- mattluiz, on 08/28/2009, -2/+9Yes he did.
http://twitter.com/mattmacrae - MiveHind, on 01/26/2009, -0/+7Guys I'm not being funny, but I don't think Kevin Rose would know how to increase twitter followers if he wasn't already pretty famous. Give me an article from some nobody who has built his followership from the ground-up and I'll read it.
- YoThisBAlec, on 01/26/2009, -0/+7I don't follow the people that only make updates on what they're doing, it's a serious misuse of the service's potential, I think. Basically the people that I follow make updates on topics that I care about and would like to converse with. I can't make meaningful responses to someone talking about needing to poop, but I -can- make a meaningful response to someone talking about the "I'm Linux" video contest, for instance.
- WoollyMittens, on 01/26/2009, -0/+611. Start a competition with Leo Laporte and John C. Dvorak, who can whore out the most plugs in an hour of broadcast time.
http://twitter.com/woollymittens -
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