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Does Robert Scoble finally believe that Twitter Auto-Follows are Stupid?
"the twitter follower rule is you can follow 10% more than follow you starting at about 1800 followers - which is why the magic 2000 following exists. I don't think that autofollow is a good idea because of the spam accounts. I stroll through my new followers every other day or so and I follow back about 50%. I don't follow people if I don't speak the language they post in, I don't follow people that have MLM in their user name and I don't follow obvious spammers or sex sites. I have a friend that unfollows anyone that DM's messages like "I just gave you "High Five"! Check it out: http://bit.ly/--- You should send me a gift back ;)""Links And International Social Networking
"{I'm not a professional blogger - Infrastructure Project Manager} It used to amaze me when a client would tell me the magic and wonderfull idea that they had to build their IT infrastructure - 9 times out of 10 they had it wrong and maybe 5 times out of 100 totally stupid ideas. When deciding on keywords with clients, what % do you let them blindly pick and what % take an effort on your part?"Links And International Social Networking
"Nice post. OK, that's a fake comment. The problem with people seeing some comments as fake is at least a certain amonut of those short comments (on my blog) are from people I know. * You make a good point * I never realized I could do this * Social Media is a waste of time I've had comments like this, and they were serious comments. Getting back to links. I've seen quite a few that are put in, and a week later made NOFOLLOW. "Subscribe
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Five Link Building Sins To Avoid
"So far I've only received the spam type through comments. The only requests that I consider are the the ones that come in through email and address me by name. My own method, but it works for me."