Comments on: My twitter avatar adventure meltdown extravaganztacular

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:10:23 +0000

Damn! First Dog, you might have made it known that you were doing personal avatars. I’ve long wanted one. Finally, when I arrived at the point of actually asking for it. I did one myself. It looks great on Huffpost, which has a larger format than Crikey.
When I looked at your photo on the calendar, I was taken by two items. 1) You are a very fine looking dog-even though your paws looked a little…added on. 2) I felt your publishers could up-date your computer.

Venise

PS. Are you going to favor the crowds with your presence at the OZ open?

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Crikey’s First Dog On The Moon Spreads Happiness! - Dave The Happy Singer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:06:34 +0000

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By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:28:14 +0000

I find it amusing that many if not most of the people who suspected this was all a marketing stunt were people who had “PR” or “marketing” somewhere in the online bio. The kind of people who can’t look at any human activity without thinking “How can I make money out of this?” The kind of people who seem unable to conceive of anyone doing something for sheer fun or — gasp — generosity.

You, Mr Onthemoon, are a man of generous spirit. They are not. I suspect Andrew Roberts is not such a shallow PR person because he seems to recognise that in social media you build social capital [ugh!] by social actions, not by pretending to be sincere.

Oddly enough, after 2 million years of human evolution, we’re very good at spotting the fakes.

P.S. I like the avatar you did for me. Some have said it’s rather appropriate. Bastards.

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By: Hand Knitted Twitter Aggregator | BitingTheDust

Hand Knitted Twitter Aggregator | BitingTheDust — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:13:18 +0000

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By: Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:04:14 +0000

The best post I have seen on the use of social media. And the best way to win followers. I am unsure if it was all altruistic or a very cunning ploy

BiteTheDust

Firstdog says: No no, it wasn’t a plan at all! I’m just not that cunning. I mean, it became a plan after a couple of days when it all went off! I thought “ooh, I’m on to something here” and then @neerav said “Can I have a t-shirt – you can do it on redbubble.com” and I knew about Redbubble because @katska had told me about it and then it sort of went from there and became a mini-meme and a very very long sentence like this one. As for winning followers, most of them are from the US and are PR people or run websites that sell pet products.

By: Sean Carmody

Sean Carmody — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:14:36 +0000

What can I say First Dog? Love your work!
- The Prawn.