A good deed never goes unpunished
A few days ago I received a message from Mark de Kock (@markies on Twitter) who told me that he was planning on auctioning off his 10.000th Tweet (or tweed, twit or twitter?) on eBay for a good cause. He asked if I would be interested in bidding too. I checked out the auction and quickly decided to bid something. To be honest I didn’t plan on winning this auction. I was sure others would follow and quickly overbid me. But, as Gore Vidal once said, ‘A good deed never goes unpunished’ and within a few days I received a message from eBay that I had won the auction.
So today I had to come up with something to say for the 10.000th Tweet. I asked around for tips and browsed my Quotes collection but couldn’t find anything interesting at first. I thought about promoting my blog or conferences or one of our start-ups but nothing felt quite right.
I ended up with something which I hope will inspire people to do something too. I actually managed to get an intro, 3 quotes AND a question into EXACTLY 140 characters. No more, no less. As soon as it is posted I will link to it here.
Until then, check this post from a guy (Dutch only) who sold his Tweet number 3000 for €400. And start following @markies on Twitter and check out this article by Ernst-Jan on The Next Web blog about the whole thing.
read the 10.000th tweet: http://twitter.com/Markies/statuses/700762302
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February 12, 2008 @ 11:59 am (11:59)
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the person’s twitter stream is private. I hope you didn’t pay a lot of money for it.
Mark de Kock / @Markies said,
February 12, 2008 @ 3:44 pm (15:44)
@Alper: Fair point and i have opened my conversation for now and will be closing it soon enough. .a community has it’s pro’s and cons. The reason why i have the private stream has to do with what i call the “trust factor”. For the same reason i don’t accept all linkedin requests i don’t accept all twitterfriend requests. I want to stay in control. With linkedin i want to know the person and want them to trust the contact i have with them and information they make available to me or i share with them.
Google can do lots of good but when i am in a conversation with someone on twitter i can produce a quote that easily can be misjudged when placed out of the discussion context. Google doesn’t cache a conversation only content bites/snacks.
It is my choice to make and my followers have all seen the quote. Maybe even read the article on my blog(www.match2knowledge.nl) or on www.thenexweb.org. that alone may inspire people, at least i hope it does/will.
Ellemijn Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
February 12, 2008 @ 3:54 pm (15:54)
I am afraid I missed that Tweet…can’t you post it here?
sis’kiss
Mark de Kock / @Markies said,
February 12, 2008 @ 4:19 pm (16:19)
Hi Ellemijn: as said you should be able to see it now but here it is:
Important events don’t need many words. “Ich bin”, “A small step” & “I
have a” are sentences we complete without thinking. What will YOU do?
Ellemijn Veldhuijzen van Zanten said,
February 12, 2008 @ 5:30 pm (17:30)
Thank you Mark and thak you for letting me follow you in Twitter too!