This is at best meaningless noise and at worst deliberately obscure.

I wonder how much better people would feel if it was immediately obvious what this was about?

On the other hand I would have thought it to be rather obvious from the start that such a competition idea would not be a wise decision. The fact you wanted it re-tweeted as much as possible makes it virtually the same as chain emails that fill my spam box (and I would have thought yours).

Maybe more consideration should be done in the future – for a company such as Carsonified who I view as very much on the front row of internet understanding these sort of things shouldn’t really be occurring.

I’m just about to announce a competition associated to a 7-part blog series, and was considering asking Twitter followers to re-tweet – but only once. A condition of entry was to tweet something similar to “I just read xyz blog series. Check it out and enter the comp. Cool prizes” – that kinda thing.

We think the blog series itself will be really beneficial to our niche, and the competition was added to get the word out about the series and to hopefully boost our profile a little.

In this context, will we be stepping on toes?

@George – Love that While loop.

@AJ – Thanks again for the support – I appreciate you.

@Brian

“Too many people are too afraid to actually see the true colours of Carsonified”

First – When you comment, please link up your site and use your last name. If you’re going to take a shot at our company, please identify yourself.

Second – Please tell me what you’re referring to in regards to our “true colours”. If you’re talking about the fact we’re a company and we need to make a profit then I’ve never hid that fact. If it’s something else, please let everyone know what you’re talking about so we can have a proper discussion.

“I’m not suggesting their in anyway evil just they ain’t as good as they’d like you to think they are.”

-Brian

a) What the hell are you talking about?
b) How from a Twitter competition gone wrong (oh, and by the way Ryan apologized for that, if you scroll up a bit you might see that), can anyone possibly extrapolate out to this nebulous statement that Carsonified is not “as good as they’d like you to think they are”?

I mean seriously, if you are going to post a dictum on a person/company’s character like that please, for the love of God, be clear. Don’t hide behind some ambiguous and anonymous jab because it forces any half-witted person to assume that you actually reached this idea that Ryan and/or Carsonified is not a good company (or not a good enough company), that you have measured their moral compass as contrived somehow because THEY POSTED AN OFF BEAT TWITTER CONTEST ONE DAY!

Surely, that can’t be the case, so what is it? Did Ryan steal your lunch money when you were a kid? Did the Carsonified team steal your pet bunny?

He made a mistake and almost immediately “manned up” and apologized, which is much more than I have come to expect from the vast majority of business people I meet. Most people would just ignore “the haters”, Carsonified invites them to debate and in the midst of an onslaught, course corrects immediately, and comes out and apologizing, stipulating the reasons why they were wrong. Come on, you have to have a modicum of respect for that.

That is a perfectly clear message of apology and good enough for me. Lesson learned. I can’t see the point in making ‘the apology’ an issue. What next, a thread about the apology for ‘the apology’?

while(SomePeopleAreNeverSatisfied==true)
{
apologise();
SomePeopleAreNeverSatisfied==true;
}