#followfriday: Guy Kawasaki’s Robots Hit Send Again

by Chris Donaldson on November 13, 2009

Hey look, I like Guy Kawasaki. The guy obviously gets some props for his Apple days (which he continues to relive), and I think his venture Alltop is actually pretty cool. But to be honest? I’ve dropped him from my twitter feed.

And it’s not because I don’t like what all his ghostwriters and automated twitter management systems have to say. They can be spot on sometimes. But the real problem is sheer volume. I mean, copious doesn’t even begin to describe the avalanche of data this guy and his minions throw at the machine. It’s crazy. It’s irrelevant. It’s not social media. It borders on SPAM. And it most certainly is done to game the system.

Press by the pound just isn’t cool anymore, Guy. You should know better.

So Guy, join the conversation. Stop monologuing us to death. Call off the dogs. Think different.

Are you out there?

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  • Talkin' 'bout my generation...
    That's real good. People searching G.K. will see your reference.

    Let's write a Twitter application (on paper). May I suggest a "communications" app. This app will describe (on paper) how a teacher might communicate with discrete and varied groups. I think Twitter has all these facilities - but linking them together into one simple hand-held ap. is not well understood. How would one accomplish this?

    - Maybe Twitter isn't the answer at all. Maybe its texting to groups. Maybe post to both.

    - You have developed a very expansive background during a time of mid-life transition into Middle Adulthood. Excellent. Your perspective is very open to pragmatism. Excellent.

    Now, about that ap.?
  • Gesco
    Well Said!!! I have been a fan of Guy for a long time and have benefited from his advice and ideas. I just get slammed when I open Twitter and see the mounds of tweets I have to filter through to see relevant info. It's at a point where I ignore him and that was not my original objective for following Guy. It's like death by a thousand paper cuts.
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