You're on! Send me a PM and we can work it out. 
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Attention Twitter Experts!
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Artyom
Paranormal Maven
Twitter users directories to join to attract more people:
I'd also strongly suggest looking at facebook, friendfeed, and the newly propogated Google Wave. These services, and how they are evolving are pretty hot topics of discussion in the social networking corner of the tech world. Friendfeed is becoming more popular as the preferred social app for many twitter fans. Cross integration is one major plus with these services, and Goolge wave looks very promising for content providers to present a more interesting and integrated gateway to their work.
Hey there, Gene. I've been listening to The Paracast for almost a year now, and I really enjoy the show. You guys are great.
I work in social media advertising, and I might have some tips for your Twitter endeavour.
1 - Follow the right people. Choose a few relevant people to follow. Say, some 50 people who post content that's relevant to your field. It's important that they also have a nice following among people you think your content will be relevant, too. This will make them notice you, and even if a small amount of them follow you back, you'll be starting to be heard by those who matter to your business.
2 - Post relevant content for the people you're trying to reach - I don't think this will be a problem for the Paracast.
3 - Reply/retweet with relevance. Stay tuned to what the people in item #1 are saying that you find interesting. If you have something to add (and if it fits in 140 characters), do it. If you don't - but something really nice has been posted by someone, show some acknowledgement by retweeting. Twitter is like going to a bar with a mixed group of friends and unknown people: if you want people to like you and be fond of talking to you, do not talk only about yourself.
Well, that's a good start, I guess.
Greetings from Sao Paulo!
(and although I tweet mostly in Portuguese, you guys can follow my occasional English tweets too: @fschuler)
I work in social media advertising, and I might have some tips for your Twitter endeavour.
1 - Follow the right people. Choose a few relevant people to follow. Say, some 50 people who post content that's relevant to your field. It's important that they also have a nice following among people you think your content will be relevant, too. This will make them notice you, and even if a small amount of them follow you back, you'll be starting to be heard by those who matter to your business.
2 - Post relevant content for the people you're trying to reach - I don't think this will be a problem for the Paracast.
3 - Reply/retweet with relevance. Stay tuned to what the people in item #1 are saying that you find interesting. If you have something to add (and if it fits in 140 characters), do it. If you don't - but something really nice has been posted by someone, show some acknowledgement by retweeting. Twitter is like going to a bar with a mixed group of friends and unknown people: if you want people to like you and be fond of talking to you, do not talk only about yourself.
Well, that's a good start, I guess.
Greetings from Sao Paulo!
(and although I tweet mostly in Portuguese, you guys can follow my occasional English tweets too: @fschuler)
f1vlad
f1vlad.com
Another thing I think at least Gene should do is use hash tags, and then hopefully other fans of paracast can join. We can use either #paracast or #theparacast.
Then we'll be able to easily track paracast related twits like this:
Twitter: What are you doing?
or in real time like this:
#hashtags - Search results for '#theparacast'
Then we'll be able to easily track paracast related twits like this:
Twitter: What are you doing?
or in real time like this:
#hashtags - Search results for '#theparacast'
Artyom
Paranormal Maven
Just a short note - Google Wave is still in beta and developers help has been requested to help to solve the problems its authors have at this point, if you are interested check out But at this point I can't see the way how the show may benefit from this great tool, it's a collaboration tool, not social one similar to FB or Twitter.
It would be nice if you start follow people back. Not only what you consider "important people" but also to all your fans that listen to your show every week. So far you are only following 16 people but have more than 200 followers....I just feel bad when I see public people (like celebs) doing that. In my opinion it just looks like they don't care for their fans.
aNorthernSoul
Professional Breather
It also promotes more people to follow you. If you tend to be somewhat responsive and friendly with some back and forth with people (within reason of course) then more people will tend to follow you.