On Twitter do you reap what you sow?

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It’s as simple as this.

Your deeds or actions on Twitter, good or bad, will repay you in kind.

The words “What you do comes back to you” are an excellent paraphrase of what generally occurs or can occur on Twitter. “You reap what you sow.” You plant spam, then later you gather the resulting harvest of backlash, useless followers, and nothing to show for your worthless attempt at gaming the system.

The harvest that you reap depends on the kind of seeds you sow. If you sow nothing but broadcast, push style Tweets,  you cannot expect to reap anything of consequential value from that.

If you retweet value, if you engage in some type of dialogue and help others, promote and encourage others efforts, then what can you expect? Value begets value.

I think you know the answer.

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This quote kills me… “I tire of your analogue attitude…”

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Social media conundrum #4 What’s next?

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What’s next? It started with AIM chat, it evolved to blogging, it’s morphed into Twitter and we now have 20 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute.

Our fascination with the human condition continues to evolve along with technology focused solely on expressive capability. Think about that.

So I ask you, what is next? Social Media as you know it right now, will not be recognizable in the next 3-5 years. Think long term.

Pay attention to the Gartner Hype Cycle

Gartner Social Software Hype Cycle 2009