Friday, June 12, 2009

Elvis Is Dead. So is Twitter. And Karen Has Me in Her Sights!


This week I raised the ire of my publisher, Karen Syed, by posting to our group site a link to an article from Technorati.com that indicated 95 percent of all bloggers and Twitter account holders abandon their accounts after a short while. Karen is a big Twitter fan.

I respectfully disagree.

Used correctly, I believe Twitter could—I stress could—be a great communications tool. But when I log on, I get “fewer than 140 characters” about people sitting in traffic, stopping for doughnuts, or even going to the john. And I care about this crap (pun intended) why?

I mean Ashton Kutcher—never mind that he’s married to someone on which I used to have a crush—hypes Twitter for God’s sake. That right there should tell you this technology is evil.

But I’m willing to be proven wrong (even through the blogosphere I can hear the snarky comments about how I should be used to it). So here’s my challenge. Send it to all your Twittering friends: Get me 500 Tweets on my account between June 15, 2009 and July 15, 2009 and I will donate $200 to the American Heart Association in Karen Syed’s name.

Hold on, as pitchman Billy Mays would say, “But wait, there’s more!”…get me 1,000 Tweets in the same time frame and I will deliver the check to my local AHA representative wearing a thong, a wig, lipstick, and what my wife calls “hooker shoes.” I will have it photographed and posted on FaceBook. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth going all the way, baby.

Fewer than 500 and I challenge Karen to post Tweets to all her friends declaring, “Citadel graduate Sam Morton is a technological genius!”
Find me at: http://twitter.com/sammorton429

6 comments:

  1. Who could pass up this challenge! You're on, Sam. Can't wait to see that pic!

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  2. You my thong wearing friend are ON!!!!!

    http://klsyed.com

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  3. I'm Tweeting as we speak!

    Diana
    http://www.basicblackblog.blogspot.com

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  4. tweets? you mean people posting to you? or tweeps, as in people who follow you?

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  5. Sam:

    Twitter is alive and well. It even has old school ad guys like me hooked. Love your challenge and thanks for selecting AHA as the recipient of your donation. Well done.

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  6. Not sure I want to see you in a thong- but $500 to a wonderful charity is something I'll strive for.

    =)

    Iris
    http://irisblack-author.blogspot.com

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