@deanshaw Twitter Madness Tourney: Round 2 Recap
Round 2
@ChrisBrogan v. @Webtrends: this was a tough call. @Webtrends really only offered me a comparison between Omniture. Coremetrics, Webtrends and Google Analytics and a demo of Facebook’s Conversion Funnel but sometimes ‘less is more’ and by ‘more’ I mean the 94 tweets spewed from @ChrisBrogan (when exactly does this guy work?) If you eliminate tweets about himself he actually tweeted 4 times.
Winner: @Webtrends
@MeetingBoy v. @ShannonPaul: @MeetingBoy can be funny, like a poor man’s Dilbert, but he just had a bad two days. @ShannonPaul came through with a link to a post on tracking tweets with Google Analytics and another on touching on Facebook being an overrated business tool.
Winner: @ShannonPaul
@DRUNKHULK v. @sysomos: Just like @meeting boy, @DRUNKHULK can be funny, but he also had a bad round giving me nothing amusing. @sysomos committed the sin of reposting tweets multiple times but offered just enough content to get over on the HULK
Winner: @sysomos
@spikejones v. @hubspot: Hubspot is always good for an informative link and interesting webcasts but there’s a gazillion (really, I counted them) that give me the same thing. What Twitter needs is more sarcasm (and cowbell). Based on that, I am going to give the edge to @spikejones. Although, he better step it up in the next round
Winner: @spikejones
@adage v. @moconews: this was a tough matchup. Both showed up with some great links and original content. But someone’s got to win
Winner: @adage
@KISSmetrics v. @andybeal: I love @andybeal like a brother and you really should follow him and his site www.marketingpilgrim.com BUT he caught a tough draw in @KISSmetrics who beat him simply on volume of great content.
Winner: @KISSmetrics
@jowang v. @JustinKownacki: No one likes @jowyang like @jowyang likes @jowyang so if you like @jowyang like @jowyang likes @jowyang you’ll like @jowyang. @JustinKownacki? He does his own web show @TheBarsitasTV. ‘Nuf said.
Winner: @JustinKownacki
@digitalalex v. @mktgdouchebag: I like Clickthrough Rates as much as the next guy, but once in awhile I need a little snark.
Winner: @mktgdouchebag
@TheOnion v. @erictpeterson: It’s The Onion for crissakes
Winner: @TheOnion
@dmscott v. @adrants: @adrants just killed it with so much great info I thought my brain was gonna vomit from overindulgence.
Winner: @adrants
@gilliatt v. @YourCustomers: Ya can’t win if you don’t show up. @YourCustomers win with a gimme
Winner: @YourCustomers
@Bronto v. @Exxx: @Exxx wasn’t great – mostly sucking up to people but she benefitted by a weak showing from @Bronto
Winner: @Exxx
@SethMacFarlane v. @CMO_com: @CMO_com had the match won until they decided to repost their tweets. That douchbaggery cost them dearly.
Winner: @SethMacFarlane
@forrester v. @DavidBThomas: Beating the likes of @forrester is hard enough, but tweeting only once during the match pretty much seals your fate. Follow @DavidBThomas anyway. A really good guy.
Winner: @forrester
@avinash v. @1918: @avinash is…well…@avinash. @1918 is..well…@1918. Tough draw for the local guy.
Winner: @avinash
@SocialMedia411 v. @Hitwise_US: @SocialMedia is absolutely dominant right now and maybe the best tweeter left in the tourney. Fear the @SocialMedia411!
Winner: @SocialMedia411
Congratulations to the winners and welcome to the Sweet Sixteen! As for the losers? Its back to campus for you ham ‘n eggers.
To check out the brackets go to challonge/TwitterMadness
For more info on the tourney check out my Diversions page
My First Blog Post (sorta)
Ok, so I have been trying to start a blog for some time now. Having worked in Online Marketing and New Media for over 13 years now it seemed like something I needed to do. The problem was that I didn’t have a lot of time to maintain a blog especially one that would never be read. Despite that I often found the occasion when I wanted to scream at the sky over something I read, something I heard, or something I saw.
So what finally got me started? Twitter of course. After using the micro-blogging platform (does anyone really use ‘micro-blogging’ anymore?) for a few years now, it occurred to me that its mostly useless. Well, let me take that back. I have found it sueful as a replacement for my RSS reader. I have found more than enough people that provide me with 10x as much content than I could possibly digest and once in while I learn something that someone has passed along. As for the other 90% of tweets then tend to come in a few flavors:
- ReTweets of somebody’s ReTweeted Tweet
- Someone thanking someone for Retweeting their Retweeted Tweet
- People telling me that they’ve just become Mayor of Kroger
- People telling me that they are at the Game, Concert, Play, Restaurant and just said hi to an athlete, entertainer, reality show star.
Despite this, I have an annoying Twitter habit that is fed by my iPhone. I really have become what I loathe….one of “those guys” with his nose buried in his phone.
As the realization of my downward spiral into Twitter dependency evolved, I decided I needed to way to assess the quality of the information I was being fed from my Twitter stream. It just happened that this realization came to me at the same time as another diversion arrived: March Madness. So it occurred to me; What if the people I followed were to take part in my own Twitter Madness tournament. I would invite the 64 best tweetersw I followed, rank them, and allow them to compete with each other to determine just what ones were the best, and that’s what I’ve done.
So there you have it, and here it is, my first post. And here it is details on my 1st Annual Twitter Madness tournament.
Dean Shaw 