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<atom:link href="http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><title><![CDATA[Comments on: There Are 181,000 Social Media 'Gurus,' 'Ninjas,' 'Masters,' and 'Mavens' on Twitter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As we start 2013, there are even 174 people who describe themselves as "social media whores" in their Twitter bios.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[By: steve jhon]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-108813</link>
<description><![CDATA[Marketing Is The Most Necessary Or Important Step In Business Field To Get Good Results From A Business.Shopping Cart Software Is The Name Of Business Which Have Get More Valuable Results From Marketing Strategy.The Shared Stuff About Marketing Is Inspiring.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:05 EDT</pubDate>
<author>steve jhon</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tiana Kai]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-108092</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ha, I love this post. These ridiculous titles are driving me bananas. When they started appearing a few years ago I thought it was kind of cute, but then it got out of control. I completely ignore the word &#039;guru&#039; now and go completely nuts when I see &#039;ninja&#039;... I mean what does that mean? You&#039;re great with knives?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:38 EST</pubDate>
<author>Tiana Kai</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Jim Mitchem]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107591</link>
<description><![CDATA[AND - there&#039;s at least one &#039;intellectual magpie.&#039; Who would call themselves something like this?]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 07:41 EST</pubDate>
<author>Jim Mitchem</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Dechay Watts]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107465</link>
<description><![CDATA[This has been one of my favorite videos since 2009. We send to partner agencies and the right prospects often. Still makes me laugh. Thanks for the great post!]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:41 EST</pubDate>
<author>Dechay Watts</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Bernie Weiss]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107415</link>
<description><![CDATA[So what else is new? Since the dawn of commerce - and the advent of every technology (beginning with fire) - there have been leaders, followers, and purported leaders in search of credulous followers. Caveat emptor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:48 EST</pubDate>
<author>Bernie Weiss</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Jeff Wilson]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107399</link>
<description><![CDATA[Get ready for a dramatic increase. Apparently open season on these folks is closed. Seems somewhat ironic to have experts call the season closed... http://bit.ly/TN7iVN 

&quot;Let my people go!&quot; - Charlton Heston, The Ten Commandments

I ran out of hunting tags for ninjas and mavens a while ago anyway...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:20 EST</pubDate>
<author>Jeff Wilson</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: April Nelson]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107361</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thank you for the great read!! I am always amazed when I run into another SEO ninja. I actually mistook SEO jedi for SEO ninja recently thinking they were the same thing but got taught the difference from the SEO jedi. Not only is it amazing to keep meeting these gurus...they are driving up CPC costs in paid search for related terms. I appreciate your research....especially the reference to Social Media whore and wondering if that&#039;s a person who takes money in exchange for tweeting/posting to their followers ala affiliate marketing or if you had a different interpretation.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:56 EST</pubDate>
<author>April Nelson</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Margaret Fitzgerald]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107359</link>
<description><![CDATA[Guru? Gah! Social media hasn&#039;t been around long enough for any of us to be a guru, master, or any other such lofty, self-important title. I wish these self-proclaimed gurus would be more original (read: strategic) and identify and differentiate themselves in a more compelling way. Anyone can have a Twitter account and a blog and call themselves an expert. My favorite pastime on Twitter is to find the fakers! #toomanytocount 
Great article!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:57 EST</pubDate>
<author>Margaret Fitzgerald</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Esteban Contreras]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107355</link>
<description><![CDATA[I hear there are 181,000 articles on this topic.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:29 EST</pubDate>
<author>Esteban Contreras</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: BL OCHMAN]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107354</link>
<description><![CDATA[oh there are plenty of social media zombies Tom!]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:15 EST</pubDate>
<author>BL OCHMAN</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Srini Kumar]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107353</link>
<description><![CDATA[You know, the Buddha was right. So many gurus !!! Enlightenment wins. http://tinyvox.com/PTj]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:06 EST</pubDate>
<author>Srini Kumar</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tom Foremski]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107348</link>
<description><![CDATA[Strange that there&#039;s no &#039;Zombies&#039;...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:36 EST</pubDate>
<author>Tom Foremski</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Joe Buhler]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107339</link>
<description><![CDATA[A sign of the times, I guess but quite ridiculous. Even worse, a fair number are getting paid for their &quot;expertise&quot; and &quot;wisdom&quot; by ignorant clients. When it all fails for lack of strategy and integration with overall business and marketing objectives, social media is being blamed and called ineffective.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:34 EST</pubDate>
<author>Joe Buhler</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Steve Lubetkin]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107338</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone who calls themselves &quot;guru&quot; or &quot;ninja&quot; or &quot;expert&quot; at anything should be shown the door. These are 21st century euphemisms for &quot;downsized, laid off, looking for a new corporate gig.&quot; As B.L. has pointed out so cogently above, what matters is real experience DOING something, not talking about it. 

Too many of the so-called experts push clients into social media platforms without any coherent strategy for their use, so there are aimless (even mindless) posts on Facebook and Twitter designed to generate even more meaningless &quot;likes&quot; and &quot;follows&quot; when a serious content-oriented strategy, creating good quality stories in print, video, audio, and photo-essay format, posted to your own website, and supplemented with social media engagement about the stories, would do much more for raising a firm&#039;s visibility. But the gurus, ninjas and whores are only interested in tweeting and facebooking for you until you realize it ain&#039;t doing anything!

Bravo for calling them out on this.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:34 EST</pubDate>
<author>Steve Lubetkin</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Mathias Priebe]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107334</link>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Veteran&quot; is funny. Thanks for counting.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:44 EST</pubDate>
<author>Mathias Priebe</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Justin Scott]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107328</link>
<description><![CDATA[As a social media guru (gag) I must provide a tiny correction. Twitter bios are actually 160 characters. Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, perhaps to allow room for the username in the original form of Twitter via text messages. Text messages in those days were generally limited to 160 characters allowing 20 characters for the username.

That tiny correction aside, thanks for the article saying what&#039;s on so many of our minds.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:31 EST</pubDate>
<author>Justin Scott</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: BL OCHMAN]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107326</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kathleen - or they conclude that &quot;this social media stuff doesn&#039;t work&quot; because they&#039;ve only worked with self-appointed social media gurus.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:27 EST</pubDate>
<author>BL OCHMAN</author>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Kathleen Gallagher]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/181-000-social-media-gurus-ninjas-masters-mavens-twitter/239026/#comments-107323</link>
<description><![CDATA[And thank you nothing annoys me more than people calling themselves Ninjas or Gurus...do you see ads going up online saying I&#039;ma neurosurgeon guru? No that would be dumb and so is this. Just call it marketing and you better know your stuff if you&#039;re going to put that in your profile at all. Ha that video is right on though. But also we should talk about the client...you can tell them everything straight up, but then they drop you because they didn&#039;t see an increase in the bottom line which you never promised and they pull in one of these &quot;Gurus&quot; it makes me so mad, but anyway that&#039;s part of the problem we deal with because of these &quot;Gurus&quot;]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:52 EST</pubDate>
<author>Kathleen Gallagher</author>
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