Comments on: Is it just me, or is the Top 50 Tweeples to watch just stupid? http://www.copydiva.com/is-it-just-me-or-is-the-top-50-tweeples-to-watch-just-stupid/ marketing, social media, branding and other things marketers care about Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:58:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Brett Borders http://www.copydiva.com/is-it-just-me-or-is-the-top-50-tweeples-to-watch-just-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-46843 Brett Borders Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:13:02 +0000 http://www.copydiva.com/?p=171#comment-46843 Twitter does not excite me that much or strike me as anything particularly elite or revolutionary. I have been tweeting (doing short status updates on the web with my community of digital friends) since I was a teenager (IRC) - so I think it's just another social network, a fairly basic and unreliable one, at that. It's the hot, mainstream trend of the moment. The big ego + narcissism aspect of the social media / startup world is kind of annoying to me. Yes, I have an ego. Yes, I have to promote myself to survive on a month-to-month basis. Yes, I get excited about my own ideas and have strong opinions. But I hope to never carry myself with an arrogant air that irritates people or fall so in love with my own reflection that people consider me spoiled or oblivious to what is going on around me. The temptation to get a big head is always there - but I am going to try and keep an even keel. Twitter does not excite me that much or strike me as anything particularly elite or revolutionary. I have been tweeting (doing short status updates on the web with my community of digital friends) since I was a teenager (IRC) – so I think it’s just another social network, a fairly basic and unreliable one, at that. It’s the hot, mainstream trend of the moment.

The big ego + narcissism aspect of the social media / startup world is kind of annoying to me.

Yes, I have an ego. Yes, I have to promote myself to survive on a month-to-month basis. Yes, I get excited about my own ideas and have strong opinions.

But I hope to never carry myself with an arrogant air that irritates people or fall so in love with my own reflection that people consider me spoiled or oblivious to what is going on around me. The temptation to get a big head is always there – but I am going to try and keep an even keel.

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