If The Ancient Greeks Had Invented Social Media...


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Good morning, all you lucky people! Looking forward to another day of "spreading the lurve" amongst my followers!


Listening to wicked new tune by @Dionysus, ♫ "Styx and Stones," ♫ on MountOlympus FM http://god.ly.t0p-tun3s


My pet lion is really enjoying his "breakfast of champions" today - Hero krunchy kibble chunks definitely seem to be his favourite!


Slaves have just added my profile pic to the #oratory2000BC conference wall - Jeez, I'm hot!!!!



My mum just left a comment on the wall of my villa - thanks mum! click here to bask in her sparkling words of wit and wisdom http://god.ly.st8t3d


My top 10 favorite speeches that I've made this year: http://god.ly.top-10



I really love being such a fountain of knowledge! If you aren't subscribing to my orations, you don't know what you're missing!


@bustymaiden, @brityneye2980 thank U for following me girls! What would your mothers say if they knew you'd been painting cheeky portraits of yourselves on the walls of my villa? ;-)

Just back from a gr8 lunch with bosom buddy @Eros - fish, olives, grapes & cheese, washed down with a bottle of retsino. Perfection!


@Cassandra cheer up, love. It might never happen.



My mum just left another comment on the wall of my villa - thanks again, mum! http://god.ly.st8t3d


RT @Apollo RT @Cyclops RT @TwoHeadedMonster - what do you want to talk about in #godchat this week? Gods and Godesses, please cast your votes: http://god.ly.godchat


Off to deliver a new speech shortly. Kudos to my mentor, @Apollo, for making me such a brilliant orator :-)


A curious thing happened today... Some people fell asleep during my speech. Is there a narcolepsy curse doing the rounds???


@Demeter @Hades sounds like a bit of a control freak. If I were you, I'd dump him. Would normally have sent you a DM to tell you this, but strangely, you don't appear 2 be following me...

RT @Echo RT @Ameinias if you only have time to follow one gorgeous hunk of heavenly manhood, follow @Narcissus (that's me! me! me!) #witterwednesday



© Sue Lyon-Jones, 2009

• As a general rule, the lower the following-to-followers ratio a Twitter user had (i.e. people with lots of followers, but not following many people back) the more focused they seemed to be on tweeting about themselves, their blogs, their achievements and awards, how much they were learning from their PLN, and what their cats liked to eat for breakfast, as opposed to spreading knowledge that other people had shared

• People who weren't following me rarely thanked me for re-tweeting stuff, or responded when I @messaged them with an answer to a request for help or information they had put out; though curiously, this didn't seem to inhibit people who tended to ignore me from occasionally DM'ing me asking me to visit/comment on/mention/or link to their blog

• Virtually all of the useful and informative links that people who weren't following me were tweeting out, were being re-tweeted by other people in my PLN who were following and/or interacting with me on Twitter
  

• tweets by people who weren't following or interacting with me seemed to be occupying a disproportionate amount of my Twitter stream at times, in relation to the amount that they were contributing to my knowledge (if we discount learning about the dietary preferences of felines)