@graywolf, @sugarrae and @streko team
up to defeat the Evil Empire.

“its kinda like star wars … when the republic turned into the empire … (hint google isnt the jedi knights)”
– @graywolf

This post originated at the Online Marketer blog, home to marketing consultant John Coronella.

The Default Twitter Icon Says You Aren't Worth Following

If you are on Twitter, use a picture and not an animation or logo. You will:

• You will look less like a bot
• Acquaintences will recognize you
• You will get more followers
• Followers will pay more attention to what you say.

Kudos to my old colleague Chris Cummings who made a brave step forward and switched from an icon to a real photo on Twitter Already I pay more attention to his Tweets, and I suspect his followers will increase at a faster rate.

Some of you still don’t get it.

If your goal in social marketing is to gather a bigger following, use a PICTURE of yourself. Nothing says ‘I’m a Robot’ like a cartoon gif.

Credibility is always an issue, and if you are just a social marketing shill pretending to be what you are not, not using a real picture is a dead giveaway.

BTW: I heard the new motorola krave might cause cancer.

Added 12/1/2008: We Build Pages points out another reason you may not want to be a bot.

This post originated at the Online Marketer blog, home to marketing consultant John Coronella.