Comments on: Twitter’s Social Capital is Unlimited – Joe Jaffe is wrong…

By: Salvatore

Salvatore — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:02:42 +0000

Jaffe's article was unspeakably lame. I think he's still miffed at nailing his colors to the mast of Second Life and failing to predict the success of Twitter.

By: Salvatore

Salvatore — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:02:42 +0000

Jaffe's article was unspeakably lame. I think he's still miffed at nailing his colors to the mast of Second Life and failing to predict the success of Twitter.

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:28:48 +0000

Did you notice Jaffe once again blundered himself in to a corner. He criticized WPP's twitter feed for not following anyone then someone pointed out that his own “social media consultancy” Crayon only follows six people! Oh dear.

By: Uzi

Uzi — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:53:38 +0000

I completely agree. The self-designated “guru” seems to be going off the rails.

By: StevenGroves

StevenGroves — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:09:47 +0000

Welcome to the blog Joe and I did not catch your jaffejuice.tv post so your humor might have escaped my attention.

It's good to hear you get the unlimited nature of social capital, but at the end of the day I am trying mroe for quality vs. quantity of followers (BTW, thanks for the follow Amigo)

I agree that I think the constraint then becomes in the best way to participate in social media - the easy answer is 'do what you like'; and Twitter usage is on a high note.

By: Joseph Jaffe

Joseph Jaffe — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:35:39 +0000

Steven - what you're saying I'm saying is nowhere close. In my JaffeJuiceTV rant (www.jaffejuice.tv) I'm talking about perspective i.e. make sure we don't bias too much of our time/attention/effort against one approach versus a suite or portfolio of platforms/media etc.

In my blog post (which has elements of both truth and humor), I'm saying that there's a bit of a self-fulfilling love affair which is as much created by the media as it is enforced. Put differently, most twitter is a great traffic driver to articles about twitter.

Ironically (or not), I agree with you fully that social capital is unlimited, although there is the tendency for platforms such as Twitter to become quite traditional and recognizable insofar that there is a clear division between have's and have not's (case in point - @aplusk)