Crowd sourced blog entry ideas

I was wondering what to write about on today’s blog entry so I sent the following tweet:

Help needed: Blog Challenge: Give me any topic on marketing or startups and I’ll write and entry on it in 30 mins. #ideasneeded

The response was bigger than I thought it would be with 4 ideas in 5 mins (ideas list is still growing). So I decided to write an entry for all the suggestions I have received. I’ve attached the response tweets below and my subsequent blog entries will be on these crowd (well twitter friend) suggestions. Which is cool, because I have to respond to the ideas, feelings of others and just start writing. This should be fun!

twitter-follow-me

Twitter Lists – inauthentic

If you’re on twitter you have probably noticed the new addition of lists to your feed. Which is the ability to create and follow lists of specific people. Cool idea, which many twitter clients like Tweetdeck had implemented a long time ago. What is not so cool, is the inference that it is purported to only be available to a limited group. If you look at the screen grab below (highlight in orange boxes) you’ll see such claims.

twitter lists interface

I understand why they’ve used such language; to make users feel exclusive, and to essentially make people tweet about it – the antithesis of what they claim to want. But I’m a bit disappointed that the crew at twitter would use such low ball, inauthentic tactics. I say this because everyone I know with 10 to 10,000 followers has been invited to lists.

Startup blog says – stay true.