$7500 for Twitter Account. Help me Digg it



And tell me... considering you cannot measure how many people read a Tweet. And at most you can measure the traffic that might click on a link. How do you measure the effectiveness of a one way broadcasting channel which is what they use it for? They are not soliciting ideas. They are not interacting with the public. They are just telling you a lane is closed someplace.
 
I don't get what your upset about. I think they are moving in the right direction, I wish more publicly supported institutions would shift in this direction. Like my son's school. If they would get their ass on twitter then maybe I would stop getting a dozen pieces of crap notices sent home aday.
 
I have no problem with them doing it. I have a problem with the cost. It would be like me charging you $7500 to get to blogger.com, set up your account, and teaching you how to blog. Seems an enormous waste of money. There was a follow up on a local station last night that says they might spend another $7500 on the same project.

So $15,000 to set up, monitor, and analyze a Twitter account
 
Really... my link bait crap? Wow - if that is not an ignorant statement... oh wait. It is.

It links to a news story from a station here.
 
patrick24601 said:
Really... my link bait crap? Wow - if that is not an ignorant statement... oh wait. It is.

It links to a news story from a station here.
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Only for hardcore diggtards that are constantly logged into digg via cookies. Normal people get routed through digg to get to the link.
 
You pay for knowledge and experience.

Yeah, a company could learn for free how to build a web site, seo it, and run a PPC campaign. Or they could pay me to do it. They pay me for my knowledge.

Are you also outraged that there are multimillion dollar companies that just provide information and services about open source software solutions?
 
Skippy McGee said:
You pay for knowledge and experience.

Yeah, a company could learn for free how to build a web site, seo it, and run a PPC campaign. Or they could pay me to do it. They pay me for my knowledge.

Are you also outraged that there are multimillion dollar companies that just provide information and services about open source software solutions?
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This. I do social media consulting for clients in a variety of verticals, they pay for the experience not necessarily "how much work it takes". While I think personally that $7.5K sounds a little excessive, the scope of work isn't exactly outlined in this story.

Further, most states have toll free numbers you can call for traffic updates. For example in FL it's *511. Getting the information disseminated on Twitter could contribute to cost reductions making this fee negligible.
 
Just checked: 2 1/2 hours later and you still havn't pulled in any diggs for this. Fail.

In three years, you've submitted 30+ stories and only once got into the double digits of diggs. I think you need to go back and read some threads on baiting Digg. Once you have some successes under your belt, maybe people will give you money to do what they could otherwise do for free.
 
The problem with government spending the $7500 isn't that it serves no purpose. Obviously, better communication adds utility for everyone.

It's that the state has no competition, and thus spends money (usually too much) where a private individual or firm would be less inclined to spend money in that way.

The incentives for the state are to spend more money, to justify taxation levels, programs and jobs. The incentives for private individuals are to spend less money, to increase profitability.

This is the libertarian/small government economic argument in a nutshell.
 
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