It’s All In A Week
The past 7 days, yes week, have been simply incredible, strange, exciting, changing, and all around crazy.
It started last Wednesday with an email about a job interview. I had interviewed twice before with the company, and their needs have now changed so they brought me back in. I will find out in a day or two if I am the candidate selected. So tonight I have been brain dumping ideas, sorting and preparing in case my life changes tomorrow. If not, I needed to do the brain dump anyway.
A few other things have happened this past week. I started a “social” experiment on Twitter. I was going to start testing the “celebrities” to see which ones truly care and interact with people. Pointless, I know. But still I think they represent a very interesting part of Twitter. I have tried to interact with @moonfrye without a reply. Yes, she is up nearing 300,000 followers, but I started when she was at less than 5,000 followers, and never a response. Expected.
The next “celebrity” I tried to interact with literally shocked me out of my stupor. @kathyireland not only responded, but then went on to carry a conversation on Twitter with me. Interacting, asking questions, responding to my questions. She even started following my wife, @raekaye, and I both. Asking questions, sending DMs and generally being very proactive and very engaging. You can’t fake this stuff people, and if you look at her Twitter stream, you will notice she interacts with quite a few people. That is powerful. Why?
Take a look at what happened during the @aplusk and @cnnbrk saga. The push to hit 1,000,000 followers. Sure there is interaction, but most people think “snob”. Use something other than Twitter. Some have gone so far as to say @aplusk and other “celebrities” (see @oprah) have ruined Twitter. Not so fast – if nothing else they need to be there to protect their personal brand, just as companies need to be there to protect their brand. If either side interacts – it opens a whole new world for them and their supporters.
That brings me to today. Job interview is over – I feel it went very well. I will know in less than 24 hours what the outcome is. It also brings me to today where I did a complete brain dump to my wife of so many thoughts, ideas and just simple things that have been crowding my brain for a while now. This not only helped get them out of my main thought process to be clear for the interview, but also sort them and organize them to start creating forward motion.
So – what about you? What are your thoughts on Twitter celebrities? The job market and interviews? Do you do brain dumps to others, paper, voice or something else to organize? Chime in the comments and let us all know!
Tags: job interview, Twitter
Hi, Bill! I’m glad you commented on my blog, so that I could find yours. I like the way you’ve approached this twitter experiment. Like you, I’ve been attempting to connect with some of these celeb twitterers and, from time to time will get an @ response. But getting a follow is nearly impossible. I think it’s great that you and your wife have connected with Kathy Ireland. I’ve heard of others who get some meaningful interactions with Demi Moore. Not that it is interesting to me from a “brush with celebrity” standpoint, but these people have HUGE audiences. If you have something of value to share, then a RT from one of them can be very powerful.
Anyway, thanks for the info, and the experiment… and best of luck with your job!!
Celebrities are people too? I think many of them are. I did follow some of your conversation with @aplusk and the whole @cnnbrk thing. I don’t think celebrities ruin twitter – if they use it they “get it’ if they don’t then they don’t “get it” and are missing out and are certainly not cluttering the stream if they aren’t tweeting.