thinkgeek
432,146 followers
http://www.thinkgeek.com
Cool products for technophiles, geeks, and the occasional monkey. Follow @thinkgeekspam for our new product feed.
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1 part shiny new toy (okay, fine, maybe 2 parts), 1 part interesting conversations, 1 part necessity.
We don't do a lot of hashtagging, but if we did: #thinkgeekrollsnatural20s
In order of lamesauceness: being boring or rude or negative; not giving back/replying to followers; tweeting too often; tweeting old news.
@donttrythis, @wilw, @feliciaday, @agent_m all use Twitter a little differently, but each is interesting, intelligent, & likable.
You, are, through, your, see, to, for, in--but especially "hypertext markup language," "object-oriented programming," and "marmoset."
Using lists in a more interesting way, like being able to message an entire list at once. They're still vestigial right now.
Best? Hm. "Today in Geek History: Sci-Fi Channel becomes Syfy. ThinkGeek follows suit with ThynkGyk. But not really 'cause that'd be sylly."
We try not to tweet too often, so the question is: how long *should* we go without a tweet? A: ~2 hours.
Tweetdeck
Spammers only.
Don't say anything to offend robots. Because one day they will enslave us all and you don't want to be on the wrong end of their laser eyes.
Without threading on Twitter, this is hard, but: connect with groups. Twitter is good at one-to-many & one-to-one, but not inbetween.
Yes, but not since we moved our auto-updated product feed to @thinkgeekspam way back in October 2008.
Probably the coolest was when some of our favorite musicians donated their work to our hold music database & @wilw agreed to narrate.
Monkeys don't have professional lives, unless you count caffeinated banana-hoarding. And we sometimes tweet about that.
#moonfruit. JUST KIDDING. That was awful.
Patrick Stewart.
"Did you ask your followers to vote for you?"
Quickly help w/ orders, answer questions, or get suggestions. Also: we get to goof off w/ our fellow geeks--er, "increase ROI." Right.
We're not that different from any other tweeting geek, but we are able to leverage our large following to share information & connect others.
Twitter has changed Timmy into a monkey that will do anything for attention. He has his own webcam, too: http://j.mp/4wnWdO
Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth, monkeys
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