Five to Follow: Our picks for Nov. 16

Every Monday, we publish our "Five to Follow" picks: five people in advertising and marketing who are worth following on Twitter. Here are our selections for the week of Nov. 16.

1. @sjoosten. Stan Joosten. Innovation manager at Procter & Gamble.

2. @gregoryng. Gregory Ng. Creative director at Brooks Bell Interactive, frozen-food blogger at FreezerBurns.com and retired Chelvis, "the Chinese Elvis."

3. @AaronStrout. Aaron Strout. CMO at Powered.

4. @getshust. Dan Shust. Director of emerging media for Resource Interactive.

5. @parislemon. MG Siegler. Blogger for TechCrunch, subject of catchy attack jingles.

Here's a live feed of their Twitter messages:

Published on November 16, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Tweets of the Day: @ironicsans

@ironicsans, aka David Friedman, is a photographer and blogger.

Published on November 12, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Five to Follow: Our picks for Nov. 9

Every Monday, we publish our "Five to Follow" picks: five people in advertising and marketing who are worth following on Twitter. Here are our selections for the week of Nov. 9.

1. @nancy_martira. Nancy Martira. Social-media strategist at Ketchum and a credit to the PR industry.

2. @BrentDPayne. Brent D. Payne. SEO director for the Chicago Tribune.

3. @BarbaraNixon. Barbara B. Nixon. Professor of PR and communication arts at Georgia Southern University.

4. @kyleplacy. Kyle Lacy. Author of Twitter Marketing for Dummies and founder of Brandswag.

5. @laermer. Richard Laermer. Author of Punk Marketing and CEO of RLM PR in New York.

Here's a live feed of their Twitter messages:

Published on November 9, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
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On Twitter, the mob may always rule

Every time Facebook changes anything, an army of Facebook users spend the day whining and becoming fans of "I'm Hating Facebook's New Thing." Likewise, Twitter is enough of a social-media powerhouse that twits will turn on their creators for any minor changes in their tweetdom. Like in August, when Twitter decided to try and formalize the retweet function (a user-invented system) with a plan to integrate it into the interface—but without letting people add extra commentary to their RTs. The mob rose up, and the #SaveReTweets hashtag was born. Now, Wired magazine takes a closer look at that Twitter-tweak freakout and what it means for the brand in the future, along with some analysis of how social-media applications might try to guard against this kind of mob rule. Stick around for page 2's handy infographic that includes such milestones as Kutcher's war with CNN and P. Diddy's terrifying tantric sex updates. (Oh no, he didn't? Oh yes, he did.)

—Posted by Rebecca Cullers

Published on November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Tweets of the Day: @danielstein

@danielstein, aka Daniel Stein, CEO of EVB, smells a trend.

Published on November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Tweets of the Day: @bogusky

@bogusky, aka Alex Bogusky, creative chairman of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, is exploring the limits of TMI on Twitter.

Published on November 5, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Still want Tracy Morgan on Twitter?

It's always disappointing when you meet someone in real life and it's not as you imagined. There's got to be a similar feeling for many who lobbied for the undeniably funny Tracy Morgan to join Twitter. You might recall the brilliant Twacy campaign that got Morgan to post his every thought on Twitter—and garnered a short burst of attention for celebrity stalker site OMGICU. Now, nearly a month in, the results are underwhelming. Maybe Morgan's just getting his footing, but right now he's not that funny on Twitter. Take his only update today: "Just got off the phone with puff daddy wishing him a happy birthday." Maybe not all celebrities should be on Twitter.

—Posted by Brian Morrissey

Published on November 4, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Deep Twitter thoughts, by Miles Nadal

Everyone on Twitter has his own style. It's a personality thing. Follow MDC Partners chief Miles Nadal for a while, and you'll get a mix of Gen. Patton, Confucius and Tony Robbins. Nadal is heavy into the inspirational and profound quote, complete with odd capitalizations that make it seem like he's translating from a foreign language. Today's pearls of wisdom include: "Never Partner with individuals who dont't share the same passion , dedication & will to sacrifice to acomplish your shared goals & dreams." That followed this: "Perpetual Reinvention is very Difficult , some might say an Oxymoron !" The idiosyncratic tweets are attracting Nadal a bit of a following—over 1,400 people received his regular musings.

—Posted by Brian Morrissey

Published on November 4, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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DM of the Day: @adscam

@adscam, aka ad blogger George Parker, is still getting used to the Twitter thing.

Published on November 3, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Tweets of the Day: @markwnek

@markwnek, aka Mark Wnek, is chairman and chief creative officer of Lowe New York.

Published on November 3, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
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