please empty your brain below

Shall we do a sweepstake on how many followers londonist_latest has by the end of the day?!
I'm not on Twitter (sometimes use it for work so I understand the basics) but I occasionally look at Handpicked London on Facebook. I'd been wondering why it's now full of Londonist links, now I know. I might unfollow it.
Well they've really rattled your cage.
Currently @londonistlatest has 112 followers,
Instructions duly followed, thanks.
If it was tweeting interesting / relevant articles from the past then that would presumably be okay the issue is the articles are not particularly relevant / interesting when they are tweeted?
Never followed their Twitter feed, but I dropped their RSS feed about six months back. There's only so much Funzing stuff I can bear to scroll past in the morning.
I un-followed Londonist on Twitter ages ago when the content became mainly commercial. I will follow your recommendation to see if @Londonistlatest is any better.

Londonist remains at No.4 in your twenty blogs sidebar.

Surprised that you don't have the very excellent www.alondoninheritance.com
Could just not bother full stop...
I don't like Londonist, but there is an interesting point there about historic posts. DG's archive is full of incredibly interesting material. But how much of it is accessed, rather than, like me, just looking at the updates? It feels like an under utilised resource?
Londonistlater has images. This makes it hard to scan the headlines quickly. I can't be bothered to follow in your? footsteps and set up an RSS>twitter IFTTT stripping out images but it's how I would have done it.

Using yours though, as I really do value the once each method.
In Peter Cook judge voice.

"Twitter? What is Twitter?"
thanks for the advice.
Handpicked London does not appear to be a company registered in the UK. Is it a company? The website has no info at all. If someone is getting money from clicks on their site perhaps a tweet to HMRC is in order.

dg writes: Rest assured that Companies House has all the details.
don't forget that the Londonist owners - Likely - who at one stage had this moment:

https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/23/social-data-analytics-startup-likely-secures-1-6m-to-scale-up-offer-for-brands/

Have now been reduced to just this:

http://likely.co/

doesn't look good, does it?
By looking at follows, shares and comments Likely says it can discover the people who are most likely to engage with a brand’s content, understand what content will resonate most with them and attract them to a brand’s social media presence.

Daniel Shore, CEO of Likely says “A brand is simply a collection of ideas that people are passionate about – we are using the vast amounts of data generated by social media to better understand and tap in to these passion points.”


Well, that explains a lot.
DG's archive is full of incredibly interesting material. But how much of it is accessed, rather than, like me, just looking at the updates? It feels like an under utilised resource?

Yes: but I think the Google search in the sidebar isn't working at the moment (once a search term is entered and returned it just comes up with the dg logo and two copies of the word 'loading').
Oh not more Londonist "thumping". Makes a change from brexit i guess.

dg writes: That's the 7th time this year you've made a "makes a change from brexit" comment, which is more often than I've mentioned it.
Today on @Londonist...
• Two tweets to posts published last Friday
• One tweet from last month
• Six tweets from 2016
• One tweet from 2015
• Two tweets from 2013
• Four sponsored tweets, two of which linked directly to external sites
• A repeat of an old tweet from yesterday
• A late-night link to a page entitled "Londonist's Best Bits Today", which turned out to be a list of all the fresh posts Londonist published yesterday
Re-tweeting old stuff isn't necessarily bad. The problem when I tried to view one of the Londonist videos a few years ago, was that I felt Londonist was making a rather populist approach in presenting their information. Maybe I started reading DG and London Reconnections (both much more sophisticated and professional) earlier than I should have.
Initially I found Londonist interesting and fed me info and things I didn't know about London. Now, a few years down the line, I see repeats, fillers and full page bandwidth sapping adverts I have no interest in. Binned the email, binned the Twitter. DG and IanVisits gives more of what I want.
I see your growing fury about Londonist's tweets on your Twitter stream has now materialised into a full blown article. Took a little longer than I expected given how cross you seem on Twitter. I note that Londonistlatest has over 250 followers now.
Seven sponsored tweets today, I see.
I think that's a record.

'Growing fury' is vastly overstating things, by the way.










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