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Why I am ashamed of some social media leaders today

13 January 2010

All day, the world news media has been reporting on the horrendous earthquake that struck Haiti late yesterday afternoon. One of the first organizations to respond was Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean's foundation, Yéle Haiti, that sent out a tweet within about an hour of reporting the earthquake yesterday.
DONATE $5 BY TEXTING THE WORD "YELE" TO 501501
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#FollowFriday: The enemy of true conversation?

11 August 2009

Back in January 2009, @Micah (Micah Baldwin, who is currently with Lijit) sent out a tweet proposing "Follow Friday".

In an article on Mashable.com ("#FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend", Baldwin said:
The idea is to think of interesting people you already follow and recommend them to others
The idea was laudable — but what is the [...]

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