Day 12 – November 25, 2009 (Wed): Look for Your Evangelists

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 81 Followers: 57 Listed: 5

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 11 – November 24, 2009 (Tue): Have Fun!

twitter_power_joel_comm_150Well, let’s just say I woke up to a pleasant surprise this morning. Not only had my following paid off in new followers, but I discovered some of those new followers had added me to their lists. However, an “@” response from Democrat & Chronicle sports writer Sal Maiorana. Now, those who know me have full knowledge of my familiarity with the media, but, other than the fact Mike Catalana used to live next to my brother, most of my contacts reside on the business page. In fact, this morning I spoke to D&C reporter Matt Daneman about credit default swaps.

Sal had some interested comments on the disposition of the Buffalo Bills coach. He seems to feel a top-tier won’t desire coming to the Bills due to lack of talent.

Although Joel Comm had his own ideas for the next two days, I realized that, with today being the day before Thanksgiving and tomorrow being Thanksgiving, I figure there won’t be much action on Twitter. I continued to experiment with the “@” and DM functions and found out I accidentally @’d the wrong person. The whole knew. Oops! In the end, it probably came across as more of a non sequitur and less of a “your slip is showing” kind of event.

For the most part, the rest of the evening I spent cleaning off our dining room table in anticipation of tomorrow’s big family feast. It’s the least I can do for my lovely wife.

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 13 – November 26, 2009 (Thu): Reel In Your Evangelists

Day 11 – November 24, 2009 (Tue): Have Fun!

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 64 Followers: 42 Listed: 2

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 10 – November 23, 2009 (Mon): Answer a Question

twitter_power_joel_comm_150Hooray! I’m a third of the way done. So far, I’m less than impressed, and we’re heading into the Thanksgiving holiday so I think I won’t be seeing too much activity. Maybe Friday.

OK, so I just had fun today. I really didn’t have much time during the work day to address any Twitter items except for a few work related ones. After work (and my kids’ parent-teacher conferences), I went back on and repeated several of the steps Joel Comm recommended for the previous days. I followed a handful of Rochester Social Media Club folks (this time) Mike recommended. I also engaged in a few conversations and asked a question. I sent some targeted “@” posts to some folks who appeared in my “Back to the Future” article posted November 12, 2009. I even sent an @ message to Chris Brogan to encourage him to read the “It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again” article telling of his Veteran’s Day visit to Rochester to speak before the Social Media Today Conference. Lee actually left a great comment on the former. Who knows if Chris Brogan even noticed my one grain of sand tweet in his Twitterverse.

That’s it for today. Just a little fun and a lot of real work. And what little free time will now be devoted to either GearFreeze or AstronomyTop100.com for the next two weeks.

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 12 – November 25, 2009 (Wed): Look for Your Evangelists

Day 10 – November 23, 2009 (Mon): Answer a Question

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 63 Followers: 42 Listed: 0

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 9 – November 22, 2009 (Sun): Ask a Question

twitter_power_joel_comm_150I first tried answering this question:

stompernetfan Can We Benefit From The Substitution Effect? http://trcb.us/IsA

about 6 hours ago from API

All right, I know it was 6 hours old, but it was the first question I found. To help spur debate, I retweeted it. Here’s what I said in my answer:

ChrisCarosa @stompernetfan Generally, the substitution effect becomes prevalent during economic down cycles like we have not.

3 minutes ago from web in reply to stompernetfan

I looked around for some more questions, but more of them involved high schoolers trying to find dates and other juvenile things. Today was a pretty wasted day (in Twitterland, but very productive at work – could there be a correlation?).

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 11 – November 24, 2009 (Tue): Have Fun!

Day 9 – November 22, 2009 (Sun): Ask a Question

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 44 Followers: 35 Listed: 0

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 8 – November 21, 2009 (Sat): Add More Followers

twitter_power_joel_comm_150As luck would have it, the Buffalo Bills played Jacksonville today. With a new coach and some free time during the game, I figured this would be a great topic to ask a question.

OK, I tried asking a question:

ChrisCarosa @thurmanthomas Watcha know about Parrish’s sudden appearance?

41 minutes ago from web in reply to thurmanthomas

I waited a while and watched a little more of the Bills game. When I returned, I found I got nothing, so I tried this one:

Continue Reading “Day 9 – November 22, 2009 (Sun): Ask a Question”

Day 8 – November 21, 2009 (Sat): Add More Followers

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 44 Followers: 23 Listed: 0

Here’s what happened on Day 7 – November 20, 2009 (Fri): Start Catching Big Followers

twitter_power_joel_comm_150Sorry, I skipped the whole day because of my son’s FLL robotics team GearFreeze at the regional qualifiers at Churchville-Chili today. They took the trophy for Excellent Project Award. Congrats GearFreeze. Now it’s on to the Finger Lakes Championship. I did notice I got some more followers, but I obviously didn’t have time to follow more. I can take care of that tomorrow.

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 9 – November 22, 2009 (Sun): Ask a Question

Day 7 – November 20, 2009 (Fri): Start Catching Big Followers

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 35 Followers: 16 Listed: 0

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 6 – November 19, 2009 (Thu): Add Friends and Acquaintances – and Start Replying

twitter_power_joel_comm_150What’s a big follower? I guess someone who has and follows tens of thousands of followers. In an amazing twist of events, these big time marketers, perhaps triggered by some social media comment I made, start following me. In addition, I’m starting to get some good follow-backs. It’s a light day on Twitter because most of my daylight hours are spent at work and most of my evening hours are spent emptying the camcorder so I can record my son’s FLL robotics team GearFreeze at the regional qualifiers tomorrow. Good luck guys!

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 8 – November 21, 2009 (Sat): Add More Followers

Day 6 – November 19, 2009 (Thu): Add Friends and Acquaintances – and Start Replying

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 25 Followers: 12 Listed: 0

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 5 – November 18, 2009 (Wed): Start Following

twitter_power_joel_comm_150I remember my friend Mark telling me to only add a few follows at a time in order to keep track of things. So I started by adding several of the folks I know from the Rochester Social Media Club. I had only recently relearned of their existence, (see “Back to the Future” posted November 12, 2009). At this point, I’m wondering if Joel Comm must have been merely appeasing his publisher when he came up with this whole 30-day idea. Fortunately, I’m much too busy at work to care.

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 7 – November 20, 2009 (Fri): Start Catching Big Followers

Day 5 – November 18, 2009 (Wed): Start Following

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 12 Followers: 10 Listed: 0

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day – 4 November 17, 2009 (Tue): Writing your First Tweets

twitter_power_joel_comm_150This was the perfect day to start following (for real). The Buffalo Bills unexpected fired coach Dick Jauron and everyone simply wanted to know the inside scoop. I had been aware of Darryl Talley’s presence on Twitter (the newspaper earlier reported he tweeted he wanted to see major changes on One Bills Drive. By fortuitous coincidence, @mikemcbride9, who accidentally followed my FiduciaryNews.com twitter account, followed many Buffalo fans, including Hall of Fame running back ex-Buffalo Bill @thurmanthomas. Not much in terms of follow backs (except for a couple of Carosas from yesterday, but I did get to watch some breaking news on Twitter.

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 6 – November 19, 2009 (Thu): Add Friends and Acquaintances – and Start Replying

Day – 4 November 17, 2009 (Tue): Writing your First Tweets

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 8 Followers: 8 Listed: 0

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 3 – November 16, 2009 (Mon): Read Around

twitter_power_joel_comm_150Here’s my first tweet:

RT @erichnwise: RT @MightyMovie Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others. Groucho Marx #quotes #movies 7:35 PM Nov 14th from CoTweet

You’ll notice several things about this tweet:

  • It’s not really my own, but a retweet. Worse, it’s a retweet of a retweet.
  • I actually tweeted this from CoTweet.
  • Finally, the official first tweet was on day 1.

After this RT, I didn’t begin tweeting in earnest, however, until Day 4. Here’s the first tweet on that day:

@mikemcbride9 Wow! That must have been me tweeting about the #Buffalo #Bills from that site (with a Chicagoan). It was a bad game (wotznew?) 11:06 AM Nov 17th from web in reply to mikemcbride9

Notice once more how I’ve gotten ahead of myself. Don’t blame me for this one, though. I popped on my news Twitter during a morning break to find Mike had followed me on FiduciaryNews.com and I wanted to redirect him to a more appropriate account. I figured Mike didn’t really care about fiduciary news. I also discovered I should avoid even casual tweets to those who do care about fiduciary news. From now on, it’s DM only for them.

I also decided to jump the gun and I followed any “Carosa” I could find in the twitterverse.

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day 5 – November 18, 2009 (Wed): Start Following

Day 3 – November 16, 2009 (Mon): Read Around

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Start of Day Twitter Stats: Follow: 0 Followers: 0 Listed: 0

Missed yesterday? Go here to read what happened on Day 2 – November 15, 2009 (Sun): Create Your Background Image

twitter_power_joel_comm_150I discovered I didn’t like reading tweets about people’s eating or sleeping habits. The more informative conversations piqued my curiosity. Anybody offering what appeared as front-line commentary stood out.

But I got bored reading around, so I connected with all the Twitter accounts that are related to my business (1) and my wife’s business (apparently 5). The other two were (1) @erichnwise, who helped me set up my first Twitter account and (2) @ levarburton because Twitter said I should when I set up the account (I ditched the other celebs, but – hey – I’m a Star Trek Fan).

I ended without a clue as to what I should Tweet.

How many followers do you think I’ll have after 30 days? Click here to enter your guess on my Survey Monkey survey “Chris Carosa’s 30-Day Plan to Dominate Twitter Experiment.” There’s no prize, but the fan who guesses the closest correct number the earliest will “win” and I’ll mention you if you want me to.

Find out today’s results on Day – 4 November 17, 2009 (Tue): Writing your First Tweets

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