Search Engine Marketing Blog: piloSEO

David Harry, AKA The Gypsy, has decided to leave Sphinn and all other social media sites and I for one will miss his contributions. David wrote a blog post outlining his frustration with the various social media properties at his Fire Horse Trail blog. The post, titled Social Media Cash Grab, outlines his frustration with the fact that he and other active members provide valuable content and help to build these sites and essentially get no real recognition for it. I am not going to go into too much detail explaining it because David does a great job doing it himself.

Now I still like Twitter and think it has great potential. It has the largest user base among all of the micro blogging platforms. That being said I recently began spending more time at Plurk than at Twitter. While they are similar IMO Plurk offers more of what I am looking for in a micro blogging platform. Is it because Twitter has become more popular and more spammy? Is it due to all of the downtime that Twitter has encountered? YES.

Twitter is not only more unstable, it is also much more spammy

Over at Search Views there is some discussion over recent comments made by Steve Harty, Chairman of Bartle Bogle Hegarty in AdWeek. In case you are unaware, Bartle Bogle Hegarty or BBH, is a traditional advertising agency headquartered in Britain. They have developed some very notable ad campaigns in the last 20 years. While they may be masters of traditional media they still don’t seem to understand the power of search. This is evidenced by the comments of Mr. Harty in AdWeek stating that: