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Do you only speak to people who drive a certain class/brand of car? Do you only listen to people who vacation in places like Nantucket and/or Capri? Would you never be caught dead communicating with someone who shops at a discount outlet? Do you think executive cafeterias in the auto industry are a good idea? If so, I would like to introduce you to Seesmic Founder and CEO, Loic Le Meur. You guys are going to love each other.
In a recent blog post, Le Meur asks Twitter to add a feature that allows him to filter tweets based on authority. In other words, if you are a lowly worm because you don’t have tens of thousands of followers, Le Meur would like to have you filtered out. He prefer to only hear from and then respond to the loud, big birds in the Twittersphere.
Are you shitting me? If there is one thing I can’t tolerate, it is elitism. Le Meur is a screaming elitist wearing a While H. Huntsman suit, standing next to his Bugatti Veyron car, drinking his $1,000+ bottle of Pétrus French wine with a silicon-dripping bimbo on his arm right next to his Zadora watch. I didn’t realize France had its own version of Shallow Hal.
This self-anointed Napoleon of the Web 2.0 Revolution needs to get a grip. If Le Meur doesn’t want to be bothered by Twitter gnats as he sees them, then he shouldn’t follow 15,382 of them to begin with. Clearly much of his self-esteem is being driven by his Twitter numbers. What Napoleon (Dynamite) doesn’t realize is that tweeps with few followers can be just as interesting — and, in many cases — even more interesting than the Twitter elite. I find the less people have in life, the more interesting they are. I suggest Le Meur find an old person working minimum wage and sit down to talk to them. Although he would find this conversation a waste of time, the rest of us would find their perspective riveting. While at it, Le Meur should take a play out of Pistachio’s playbook. She maintains an active and engaging Twitter dialogue with anyone, and remains one of the most followed, real people in the Twittersphere. It’s good to see the dink appears to stand alone as the bulk of the blogosphere elite appears to disagree with Le Meur.
Acquiescing to the “size doesn’t matter” philosophy would do wonders for Le Meur. I suggest he stop running around searching for big dicks like himself and enjoy a little anonymous tweet. It would be liberating.
I think we gnats should start a boycott of Le Meur and stop following him? It could end up being the biggest coup d’état the Twittersphere has ever seen. I just unfollowed him. Are you with me?
December 28th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Absolutely!
December 28th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
thanks davidjs! spread the word…
December 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Oy! Right on.
December 28th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
rock on cooperline!
December 28th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I think this is the most refreshing business blog I’ve ever read. Scathing, but wow…funny, and fresh! Love it
Keep it up, I’m hooked!
December 28th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
karen, wow! thanks. i think getting hooked is a good thing. haha!
December 29th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Never heard of him. Never followed him. I mean, he’s just some French guy, right?
December 29th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Strike one, two and three: he’s French.
December 30th, 2008 at 9:22 am
let’s not judge an entire ethnicity based on one person. that’s what the rest of the world does with americans based on bush…but that’s it’s own blog post!
January 5th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Such a good post to come back from vacation to. The word “dink” is so underrated. But pheeew, glad to be on Kel Kelly’s good side…wait Kel, we good right?
January 5th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
i personally love being a gnat! thanks for the post K.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Kel — I’m really impressed how you folks have embraced inbound marketing concepts. You moved impressively fast…well done! Brian.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:06 am
ben, i apologize for the delayed response. as you know my freaky deaky laptop smashed and have been without while traveling for a week. off to get a mac in a few moments. and btw, we are always good!
January 9th, 2009 at 9:06 am
joyce, i too am a gnat and happy to pester as many dinks as possible. haha!
January 9th, 2009 at 9:09 am
brian, great to see you post here. sorry to be so slow to respond to your comment after the high five for being fast. i pride myself on quick replies. have been laptopless –(thank god there was “lap” at the beginning of that word — for a week. long story. hope to see you here again.
January 29th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
While it may seem that Loic Le Meur is a bit ’snobbish’ there is something going on here that is much bigger and that is the ranking of our social capital or currency. I am writing a book on social media for businesses with @gorongo and we have interviewed the founders of several social media companies (Twitter, FriendFeed, Klout.net) and @joefernandez the CEO of Klout is on to something by measuring the social currency that we each have. More to come as we leak out the book.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:08 am
jim, sounds very interesting. keep us posted and feel free to use my blog for any leaks. haha!