High five. lol

While it's really shifty and spammy, it's true to a certain degree. Although the fact that you triggered my rage against spam and using social media to run traditional ad campaigns I realized in the comments that you were trying to do just that thing ... well played sir. While it wouldn't work as an effective SEO boosting strategy for a organization or business it is effective.

Thank you Brian. I was just talking to a friend on the phone about some of the huge absurdities of social media, and laughing about this very mentality.

Every time I see this article, it makes me laugh at the people who took it as a tutorial, and cry for the fact that they make the field of marketing look like a diarrhea race to the shitter.

Fast response! I like it :)

I agree completely and offer you two short videos to prove to the world that we're right. First of all, social media isn't new - we've been communicating with each other for thousands of years and Twitter / Facebook is just a new tool to do so. Like in personal relationships, constant selling is considered narcissistic and annoying as hell. Secondly, it's been the trend across the ages that a new medium for advertising is invented and everyone thinks they should use it like the old one.

Creating a Shared Experience - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
 Social Media Isn't New - http://youtu.be/GCn14pWR-8k

Right on Brian. I have compared many uses of social media to the communications that have previously taken place in schools, restaurants, offices, churches, and etcetera. As for more recent digital variations, I consider that I met many of my closest friends through online social media back in the 1990's. Then, on a lucky day in 2000, I my wife and mother of our three kids right here at my keyboard. Well, it was actually a different keyboard though. :-)

Ref: 
Three Kids Prove Social Networking Works

http://www.awebguy.com/2009/02...

WOW! I just realized how dated this reference is, and it was just from back in 2009. LOL

Right there with you, I met my fiance on eHarmony :)

I loved your post - it was sooo great! 

I tried to have some fun with it, Linda. :-) 

 Oh My! and soo family friendly! I appreciate your work ethic, it's even worse for me when I get somebody on the phone for an hour and I can't get rid of them when I've had too much coffee!

Now you've stepped into it big time! Didn't you buy Bill Cosby's course? Monday follow 500, Friday unfollow the 350 who didn't follow you back. Do that every week until you get to 20,000 then the consulting companies come out of the woodwork looking for your expertise in how to market their products. The only thing missing from this article is a self-portrait of how far your tongue is sticking into your cheek!
Michael Brown

Ha ha! Yeah, I have a little bit of snark left in me. :-D

I saved my money from the courses and decided to show photos of my high work ethic instead. See what I mean --> http://www.awebguy.com/product...

Great headline, I must say; definitely clickbait ;)

I am sure you can tell I had a little bit of sarcastic fun with it. :-)

I love your posts.

Thanks Cassie. Now if somebody says "I hate you" because you followed this "advice", don't come crying to me. LOL

So I'm guessing that you just down right hate me, are you following? I miss my sarcastic ass, I mean YOU! ;-)

Sarcasm? I guess I don't understand the notion. ;-)

Nothing like a dose of snark in the morning. Well played, Mark. Well played.

Thanks Dan. Now how many people do you think will not recognize the snark and use this as their roadmap to Twitter success? :-)

Oh damn. And here was me thinking this was the definitive guide to become a twitter superstar!

love this post ...

Heh, that was excellent! Good snark, expert skewering of memes: awesome!

I feel pretty good with a skewer in hand and a grill to put it on. Thanks Ed!

This made me cackle... quite a lot!!! "Oh will someone PLEASE think of the starving kittens!!" extremely glib... just the way I like it!

Thanks Adam ... if we can get those kittens fed, we should continue forward and get them some iPhones. I mean, really, you have a heart don't you? :-D

The iPhone 5 will have a kitten-paw friendly touch screen.

iPhone News: The #iPhone 5 will have a kitten-paw friendly touch screen. via @szticks

I see you are getting the idea, Kenth. Nice one! :-D

Mark, I saw this in your Twitter feed & before I could read it, I saw it retweeted by @TweetSmarter--labeled w/ "#Sarcasm"! Too funny! As if you Ever use sarcasm!
Truly, I dig what you say and how you say it. Thanks for sharing with the world!
--Sheri Gourd

I knew you were there Sheri! See ... now there is the spirit. BTW ... Are you sure you spelled sarcasm right? You see, I am not familiar with that word. I guess I should Google it. ;-)

READ THIS BLOG COMMENT!

Oh yes, and the point of the article ... I published this in the morning and at the end of the day it saw 46 retweets, couple squillion reads with an average time on page of over three minutes and only a 19% bounce rate. Those are good stats for a reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe gone blogger, but did anybody comment? Nope ... people just looking for how to become popular on Twitter without anything to say.

There's your Twitter. ;-)

If I spent all of the time it would consume doing all or even most of that stuff on the list, I suspect I'd not have much time for anything in my real life. Intriguing as it may be to try following all of the suggestions on the list, I shall not. I can't be anyone but myself. Being someone else would definitely be too time consuming.

Perhaps you missed the part of this that mentioned people wishing you a case of herpes or the fact that I was being a smartass and making fun of people who do these things.

After two months, I finally have a minute to comment on the smartass/satire thing you mentioned in your reply. This is it: Obviously you didn't understand your suggestions were being satirized.

It seems more obvious that you perhaps somehow still do not get that they were written as satire.