Dan Zarrella

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HubSpot's Social Media Scientist.

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Terms you wish would start trending on Twitter right now?

Science, data, innovation, facts, and #guessingisstupid.

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Why'd you start tweeting?

To build a network of like minded social media users across multiple platforms.

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What feature should Twitter add?

The No-Fail-Whales-Ever feature. Stability > Feature Creep.

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What are some big Twitter faux pas?

Shortening words, following way more people than follow you, and Tweeting lots of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" type quotes.

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Who do you admire most for his or her use of Twitter?

GuyKawasaki is one of my favorite models for a successful use of Twitter.

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What are some words or phrases you refuse to shorten for brevity?

I never shorten anything for brevity. Doing so is a big pet peeve of mine.

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What's your best tweet?

My best tweets are the ones where I publish some new data about social media behavior.

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How long can you go without a tweet?

For a pretty long time mostly, but when I'm getting bad customer service? About 3 seconds.

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What's your favorite Twitter app?

TweetDeck. Or my collection of hand written tools I use to analyze Twitter.

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Have you ever unfollowed someone? Who and why?

I have, plenty of times. Tweeting lots of meaningless quotes is one good way to get unfollowed.

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140 characters of advice for a new user?

Experiment, innovate, challenge common wisdom and keep evolving.

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What's the most interesting connection you've made through Twitter?

I've made so many that its hard to single one out really, but the best ones are the ones that include a real-world interaction.

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What was the funniest trend you've seen?

The ones that I find most amusing are the expletive laden ones.

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Ever get called out for tweeting too much?

No, well, not by my followers. By my fiance at dinner, which is a different story.

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Is there someone you want to follow you who doesn't already? If so, who?

Alyssa_Milano. She's ReTweeted my stuff, but still doesn't follow me :(

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Who do you wish had a Twitter feed but doesn't?

Everytime I find myself thinking that about someone, I find out they do have one.

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What question are we not asking here that we should?

The New ReTweet System: Love it or Hate it?

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How do you use Twitter in your professional life?

I build apps around it, use it for research, promote stuff I'm working on and network in my field.

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What inspires you to tweet?

I want to break down the "soft-focus-unicorns-and-rainbows"

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How do you make your tweets unique?

I do me. I tweet about social media from a unique, data and science oriented perspective that is sorely lacking in the niche at large.

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Has Twitter changed your life? If yes, how?

Yes, it has given me the best dataset to study human behavior in history.

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What are six things you could never do without?

Twitter, PHP, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, my fiance and science.

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