Comments on: Veronica Belmont accused by Scoble of paying Twitter for their recommendation!

By: twitter suggested user winer scoble laporte | The Tech News Blog

twitter suggested user winer scoble laporte | The Tech News Blog — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:48:51 +0000

[...] annoyed by the way people were given these highly financially valuable followers that he asked if techcrunch had paid Twitter $10,000 for a place on the list. He also accused Veronica Belmont of paying for her place on the [...]

By: devolute

devolute — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:26:53 +0000

Whole thing very depressing.

I’m sure you’ll both get loads more followers out of it tho, so doubles all round! hurrah!

By: WarLord

WarLord — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:47:55 +0000

@perrybelcher Of course that said: How does Twitter decide who gets a spot on the Hot 100 recommend list? http://bit.ly/6pTJO

By: whogivesashit

whogivesashit — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:44:31 +0000

you twits need to get a fricken life.
you can tell scobledoo doesnt have one.
what a complete waste of space!

By: WarLord

WarLord — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:58:06 +0000

@TradingGoddess Robert Scoble is in a teapot tempest over that very thing http://bit.ly/6pTJO He says its BRIBES!!!

By: Lesley Dewar

Lesley Dewar — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:53:29 +0000

When I signed up to Twitter, my bio simply read “Not all smart poppies are tall poppies. Capiche?” – a tongue in cheek reference to my blogs at wordpress.

As time went by and I either followed suggested people or deleted them from the list, I found that those who were left had the word “tall”, “smart” or “poppy/poppies” in their bio. None of them particularly interesting, either and all with very few followers; few tweets and just not active.

Changed my bio and suddenly got a whole load of much more interesting, higher ranked people to look at and follow if I wished – so, obviously there is some comparisions made within the suggested people’s bios to look for a degree of compatability.

I don’t suggest this is the total answer – but it certainly made a huge difference to those twitter members actually offered as suggested followers.

Just something to consider. I don’t have a huge following – less than 500 – but my Tweeter Grading is in the higher 90′s.

Lesley

By: Augie De Blieck Jr.

Augie De Blieck Jr. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:46:38 +0000

@johannadc – Found it. The Veronica Belmont/Robert Scoble row. Egads, Scoble is full of himself: http://tinyurl.com/cc66ow

By: Mika Kiviranta

Mika Kiviranta — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:36:18 +0000

Veronica vs Scobleizer Interesting fight. Also read comments. – http://bit.ly/6pTJO

By: Barry T. Smith

Barry T. Smith — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:14:50 +0000

@pvponline Let me see if I can find the link. Yeah, here we go. http://tinyurl.com/cc66ow More about paying to get listed? Or something?

By: Tech News Blog Editor | Jim Connolly

Tech News Blog Editor | Jim Connolly — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:17:14 +0000

Mouse,

Thanks for the comment. The good point I referred to, was that Twitter’s Biz Stone admitted to giving these places to his staff’s favourites. NOT that Robert was right to accuse anyone (he said in these comments he didn’t, but he did!) I agree with you that the proof needs to be put up by Robert. How can anyone claim they didn’t do anything? Robert – I’m pretty sure you went nutz that evening!