• Blasted tunra wolves. Even the canberra types around the office are complaining about the cold #
• The outside world is feral. Damn cold, wet, windy and impersonating the worst of Britian’s seaside resorts in wintertime is not pleasant #
• @Nedra @SocialBttrfly - Working on an idea - User Generated Content plus marketing mix - struggling to figure out UGPricing tho - ideas? #
• @Nedra I can constructed user generation distribution, ug_promotion and ug_promotion with ease. Can’t get price into ug concept #
• UGProduct = customer created service of WOW guild. UGDistribution = room on FriendFeed / group on Facebook. UGPromo = blog/youtube/tweet. #
• @Nedra @SocialBttrfly Confused author is confusing. Yeah, I’m going to have fun resolving this aren’t I? Ideas have helped a bit. Thanks. #
• @SocialBttrfly UGPrice = costs of disconnection + benefits of socialnetwork? Fragmenting conversation raises the UGPrice? FriendFeed lowers? #
• [Set mode=monster_unleash]. User Generated Return on Investment - personal benefit back from effort/time expended on contributing to UGC #
• @SocialBttrfly Cost of disconnect as a counterpoint to the value of connection is a crude approximation of the idea #
• I haz a meraki #
• @CTUB Good heavens! I’ll be in town for this one - I’m in. #

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Following the lead from seeing @trib (aka Stephen Collins) twitter policy, I figure I’d outline my policy on follows and bans.

First, I have four twitter accounts - @stephendann, @drstephendann, a classroom teaching account and @saschacat.  The last one is my cat’s twitter account. Blame @el_gato for the inspiration.

Primary Account Follow policy

@stephendann is my primary account, point of contact, and generally where I’m likely to respond.  My follow policy there goes like this - if I know you, you’re on. If you’re a friend of a friend, most definitely welcome.  If you drown my twitter page more than a few times in a week, um, you’re great and all, but I’ll leave you unfollowed so I can drop by and read the updates. I tend to follow people I know in RL, people from conferences (@Canberrabarcamp), or the tweets of a limited number of bloggers.

Primary Account Auto Ban Policy

• if you’re over 5000 follows and under 500 followers, you’re automatically considered for a ban list. Note: Exceptions are made for robots tweeting from other planets. That’s cool.
• If you’re over 10K follows, goodbye, you’re automatically banned.  You won’t notice.
• Anything that smells of corporate or automated follow is banned. If I could double kick ban and with boot to the face, I’d do that for any internet millionaire spam twitters.
• Ex-partners of bitter breakups are preemptively banned for both our sakes. Neither of us need us. (this is a proactive policy on most social media. Consider it a social firewalls)

Secondary account policies:

• I have reserved @drstephendann for use in livetweet events.  The test drive of the account happens at the APSA conference. If the account will be in use, I’ll let you know if you want to follow along for the event.  I’m going to experiment with the follow / not follow protocol
• @saschacat - The cat hasn’t been taught to use his twitter account yet.  I’m doing that later this month. The cat is mostly likely to follow other cats.  Four paw pride and all.
• The classroom account(s) won’t be following anyone who isn’t in the class when it’s in use.  If you’re not enrolled, you don’t need to know about it.

Mostly, if you’re worried I’d think you were a spam account, direct message me and it’ll be enough to prove humanity. If I have doubts, and you’ve messaged, I’ll message back.  If you’re an automated responder spam chat device, I’ll taunt you mercilessly until your little coded heart breaks (I have had YahooChat spam bots leave the conversation channel on me).

• @the_common_ryan I thought you tweeted Thomas the Tank Engine there #
• @the_common_ryan That there be SQUEEworthy news! *applauds you* Of course, now I will kick your arse if you don’t work hard at the degree #
• @the_common_ryan So I’ll be stepping up and volunteering to be your watchdog to make sure you get through #
• There’s a mountain of dead tree in my office. Putting all my written work since starting at ANU into print format is quite interesting #
• @trib and by made up by marketers, you mean commonly used by economics, accountants and other bean counters? #
• @trib I could take that statement of non-evil personally y’know. #
• Stereo cranking out the mp3, MMIB corridor rocking to my playlist, and it’s not even after hours yet. It’s a good day to change the world. #
• One of the people in sales designed a feedback form with a soulscarring pink background as the RSVP tool. I just e-mailed my RSVP instead. #
• @trib Solid policy on the blocking. I do the same if it’s a massive difference between following and followers #

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• Morning twitterverse. Send caffeine. Lots of caffeine. #

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• So much for the plan to get to @CTUB today. #
• Got out of this week mostly intact. ReverseSpicegirled the APSA paper, and managed time over for couple of other projects to be completed #

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