Kyle Thomas

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Tweeting What I Want

Not to name, names and they do have there own opinions but if you don’t like all the talk about the new Apple product just shot off Twitter for the day.

Here is my opinion on this kind of thing. I like to think it is a passion of mine to keep up with the tech news and especially Apple News. I like Apple’s stuff, I don’t know why but I do and I don’t want to try and defend it. I just do, and shouldn’t need too. Anyways when I see people complaining about how there are to many tweets about the Apple announcement I think they need to step back for a second. Obviously there is a reason for all the tweet and I know there are multiples of the same things but when it comes to Social Media and Tech this is a big thing. Hell Apple kept saying “The Internet in your hands”.

If people are tweeting about it, it is because they want to and are passionate about it. My advise to those who don’t like all the tweet is unfollow or turn twitter off for the period of the hype. In a couple day it will all go away and we’ll move on to the next big thing.

I’m just say’n!

Comment to Twitter

When I started YkOnline I made the choice to create its own Twitter account. Mainly because at that time I thought twitter was the greatest thing invented and I was full on driving the bandwagon. Nowadays I’m not so sure that was a good idea, but that is a different post, for another time.

What I want to get at is a plugin I quickly installed for YkOnline. What the plugin does is, every time a reader comments on a post on the blog, it then gets sent to the YkOnline Twitter account. The way I have it set up, its says “[NEW COMMENT] <Start of Comment> LINK TO COMMENT”.

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Pay for a Tweet

I was listening to an interesting conversation about Twitter Japan. Reports are they might be starting to charge for tweets. So what I got from it is, if you want to follow a certain person and see their tweets, you will have to pay for it.

I am against this but I did start thinking about it. If you are a person in power, a celeb, leader, or influencer maybe you could. I;m the type of person who generally wont pay for little things like this, but I’m willing to bet there are tons of people who would. Think of all the teenage girls who would be willing to pay to find out what Taylor Swift is doing throughout the day. Although I know the majority of people who will read this wont agree, I want you to think more like a business person. Can you not see there is a market there.

Now the question is would one of these people be more powerful behind a pay wall or with more followers as it is now?

Thoughts?

Break a Guitar, Get a Song Writen About You

Singer-songwriter Dave Carrol flew on a United Airlines flight from Halifax to Nebraska March of last year and upon arriving found his $3200.00 guitar broken. After giving him the run around for more than a year United finally refused to pay him compensation. Dave rejected the $1200 flight voucher but vowed that he would write 3 songs about his experience and offer them as free downloads.

So now, here for your viewing is song #1: United Breaks Guitars.

If you want to show your support send a tweet to @unitedairlines or Retweet the above video.