{"id":1603,"date":"2016-11-02T07:09:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T07:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2016-11-04T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T12:10:52","slug":"a-funny-thing-happened-on-twitter-the-other-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/a-funny-thing-happened-on-twitter-the-other-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A funny thing happened on Twitter the other week…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every now and then a follower makes me smile. This was a recent run-in with one such person…<\/p>\n

So I post in a couple of Twitter chats. In one (#TorbayHour) I am very active and the other (#DevonHour) I’m on when I’m at home. I usually have a tweet that I use for both to promote myself. It is currently my pinned tweet you can view here<\/a>. This tweet sometimes goes out on a Monday and Wednesday evening when I run them.<\/p>\n

So I get this pop up in Twitter…<\/p>\n

\"Tweet<\/p>\n

Oh, I’ve upset someone because of that tweet. I go back through the last few days tweets and tweet\u00a0back…<\/p>\n

\"Tweet2\"<\/p>\n

I then spotted the hash tag #UrDoingItWrong in their tweet – Hmmmm, I disagreed with that so I replied again with my own stats and hashtag…<\/p>\n

\"tweet3\"<\/p>\n

I added a smiley and the hashtag #DoingSomethingRight because it was a light-hearted rebuttal of\u00a0their hashtag. My account is constantly growing as are the re-tweets, comments and replies. I’m very happy with how my account is growing\u00a0and how much website traffic it is generating.<\/p>\n

Some times goes by and then this pops up in my notifications…<\/p>\n

\"Tweet<\/p>\n

Oh wow! This is one seriously fed up person who is now calling 8,000+ followers brain dead and having the memory of a goldfish. This person must really know their stuff and must be a social media guru to be able to tell me I’m wrong, my followers are wrong and I should listen to their incredible wisdom.<\/p>\n

At this point I had to see how a successful social media account is run. I… and all my followers need to learn from a true master of social media. I look at their\u00a0profile…<\/p>\n

\"Tweet<\/p>\n

I look at their\u00a0account… I look back at my account… I look again at theirs. My face at that moment resembled this:<\/p>\n

\"funny.\"<\/p>\n

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I did genuinely re-evaluate my strategy. If I had a follower count as low as theirs I think I’d\u00a0be looking at other tweeters to see how well they do and what I could learn from them. I don’t think I would ever have to gaul to tell someone with a high follower count that\u00a0they are doing it wrong if\u00a0my own account was so dire.<\/p>\n

I went through their\u00a0tweets and some of the\u00a0other tweets also came\u00a0across with the same tone and rudeness. I’m not that kind of person so I simply left it there and I didn’t bother getting any further involved with them.<\/p>\n

They really did make me smile though hehehe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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