Comments on: Social Media Predicitions For 2010

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:13:18 +0000

Very interesting post!
I wonder about your prediction that “the numbers will be forgotten”. Are there trends pointing in this direction? I’m a bit of a social media moron, so this is a sincere question.

It seems to me that numbers of followers/subscribers/viewers is something like a currency in social media. I don’t really see people going for less in this regard…

Cheers,
Shane

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Being Brand Social in 2010 « Arun Rajagopal — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:45:50 +0000

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By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:55:02 +0000

Ah you don’t need to worry about us we will just be here banging out new blog posts every day for the next year as you will no doubt yourself

By: TheInfoPreneur

TheInfoPreneur — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:07:01 +0000

Hi Niall,

Yet again another solid post to end the year on. Some good predictions, it’s an exciting time for twitter next year.

2010 for me is about replying to everything, I have written a few posts about the importance of it.

The main thing though I am looking forward to seeing what happends with simplyzesty in 2010!

Keep up the good work

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:05:34 +0000

Tyler I think you have summed up the biggest challenge that is facing the whole industry at the moment and it is basically the huge amount of noise! There are so many brands and individuals out there trying to get your attention that it is hard to just have a conversation with the people in your network and get the quality information which is what it is all about. It is a problem but there are enough smart people at Facebook and Twitter to make sure it is filtered out and hopefully that will be the biggest challenge this year going forward. There will be more exclusivity to your networks and like I say in the post less will be seen as more and hopefully the numbers game will be forgotten!

By: Tyler @ ResidualBacon

Tyler @ ResidualBacon — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:35:12 +0000

I am still on the fence with social media. I hate being spammed, and it seems like that is where social media is heading. It is great to stumble onto a group that has similar interests, a tweet that you found useful, but now its getting to the point that I have to filter out the good from the bad their as well and that is time consuming. I live day to day with social media, but I think its here to stay, but its impact has already been made and don’t expect anything new and exciting coming my way from it.

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:26:45 +0000

Jason you are smart to be looking at the niches because that is where the real power lies. Instead of joining all the people fishing in the big oceans that are Twitter and Facebook there are plenty of opps in small ponds (ie small social networks with passionate people within their niche)

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:25:33 +0000

Yeah the power is defo back in the hands of the people Henri

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:25:00 +0000

I have heard a lot of people saying the same thing about Facebook recently and TBH i don’t use4 it myself personally but the numbers really don’t lie and not just for the amount of people on it but the amount of time they are spending on it, 20 minutes per day on average! The apps on Facebook are a problem and why I don’t use it but so many people do, I guess they are a great time filler if you have plenty of it on your hands!

I’d agree on Twitter as they are clearly already having growth issues and as you say that is without a business plan or trying to monetize yet. Tricky year ahead for them!

Something new will of course come along and then everybody will flood over to that.

By: Jason @ forty2fifty.com

Jason @ forty2fifty.com — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:33:24 +0000

Great projections Niall… Social networking is something I really want to utilize much more in 2010 and even look at some of the smaller platforms.

I believe 2010 will be much more about customer service and personalization. Gary Vaynerchuk mentions this in his book “Crush It”, that building personal relationships with our followers is key. Taking the time to acknowledge the people who are acknowledging you is just good business.

Good stuff and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

By: Henri @ Wake Up Cloud

Henri @ Wake Up Cloud — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:17:28 +0000

Yeah! Screw the numbers. I’d like to see all companies do twitter as customer service. I want them to be reliable and feel the pressure of having to take care of their customers

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:47:29 +0000

First time I’ve read a blog say this (well, one in my feed anyway)… but I have to disagree. 2010 will be the year that people get fed up with Facebook and the terrible apps flooding their streams as FB desperately tries to monetise and become a new google.

The same goes for Twitter. Sure, people have stopped searching for millions of followers in order to maintain a more relevant timeline, but Twitter is going to die a death. No business plan, the chance of having ads and/or premium services and a huge influx of spam will kill it off. Throwing ads at a service that is, essentially blogging’s answer to SMS is not the way to monetise.

Something new will come along, and the two will die. Just like myspace and the like.

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