I am an EARLY adopter (hence why I don’t use it much anymore now that EVERYBODY is on it) of Twitter (& also the person sitting next to David). I also came to the conclusion that your presentation came across as the most self-congratulatory presentation EVAH.

I’ll throw one piece of constructive criticism out to you Laura: Record yourself.

Because maybe then you’ll hear just how much of what you said contained a relative of the word “I” when you spoke. Seriously there should have been a drinking game where players took a shot every time you said “I” referencing just how awesome you thought you were. We would have all be S$%#-faced.

@David “Twitter: a megaphone that enables narcissists to reach lemmings.” – AWESOME!!!! best line of the year evah!

BTW, I loved the narcissists and lemmings line. Classic. BTW, the lemmings game has been emulated and is available, free, online, I just learned.

Maybe in future preso’s you might give some concrete examples of third-party companies listening on Twitter to beef that section up? I wish I still had my notes from that day but nothing is sticking in my memory. It’s also possible that there just WEREN’T any last year when you gave the seminar.

At any rate, I really am in awe at your massive following and now count myself as one of them. It’s clear that Twitter has worked amazingly well for your business & that you are an expert at how to leverage it to achieve real business goals. 🙂 Hope to meet you at a future search conference.

I’m actually rather humbled and embarrassed and weirded out by the having an audience side of Twitter, but I thought that would be interesting to an SEM/SEO crowd. I often leave it out entirely.

At any rate, your post is awesome. It IS about who you follow, what you learn, etc. My slide about traffic was very much meant to discount the “go read this” effect and play up the listen, contribute, create value bit. https://twurl.nl/fgi0gs