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Twitter In Real Life: The Follow-Back [cartoon]

 

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We encourage you to use this cartoon in your blog, link to it, tweet about it, put it in your management meeting PowerPoint, whatever.  See details below. 

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Posted by Dharmesh Shah on Mon, Dec 15, 2008 @ 10:25 AM

COMMENTS

Funny. Painfully true to life.

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 10:41 AM by Gregory Tipton


I like it. You should make more of them...

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 10:41 AM by Bloggeries


Not sure which I like better . . . the cartoon or the "tweet it" button. Great stuff!

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM by Paul Roetzer


I looove it and have tweeted it! twitter.com/AgapeLady

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM by AgapeLady


Well that was good for shits and giggles.

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM by Blog Expert


Fantastic! Just linked to you and it from my blog. That is great - you should make a HubSpot t-shirt with that on the back.

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 11:33 AM by Michael Carnell


Great Cartoon! - Thanks for sharing it with us. 
 
Regards, 
 
Saul Maraney 
 
Johannesburg, South Africa 
 
www.whatishooponopono.com

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM by Saul Maraney


Dammit, why didn't I think of that?! 
 
 
 
I'm collecting funniest biz humor for a post and submission to a Tom Pick roundup article. I'm including this as a most funny! 
 
 
 
Here's another one I love: 
 
http://tinyurl.com/buyitasshole 
 

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 12:25 PM by Rebekah E. Donaldson (Red)


Matt: Really? I'surprised that poking a little fun at social media (which we're big fans of by the way) would evoke that kind of negative sentiment. I'm probably missing something.

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 12:44 PM by Dharmesh Shah


Meh, nice idea, but I don't like this one. 
 
Try again. ;-)

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM by Bas - Istanbul Expat


It might be more accurate to have the guy entering his house & finding the bearded guy sitting on the couch with his feet on the coffee table. 
 
Cute though! I retweeted it!

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 1:04 PM by Liz


Is there no limit to the talented gang at Hubspot? Websitegrader, Twittergrader and now, cool cartoons!

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 2:43 PM by Warren Sukernek


I posted this on my blog! Loved it! Thanks for making my Monday.  
 
 
 
As for joking about Social Media: If we can joke about our President and the economy, we can certainly have a little fun at the expense of those SPAMMERS that only follow us to get followed in return! Great Job!

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 3:16 PM by @CharityHisle


I second @CharityHisle - put the SPAM logo on the bearded guy's t-shirt :)

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM by Helene K


hey - nice post! it inspired me to make one too: Twitter in Real Life Pt. 2

posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 4:56 PM by Austin


Linked it and thanks for sharing

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1:02 AM by XSGrowth


Twittered!

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1:17 AM by Shashank


Very funny. Linked it. 
Thanks for sharing.

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 8:13 AM by Jose


Twitter has a different social etiquette which makes the cartoon very funny. It's "safe" to follow to see if someone is worthy of being followed and it's safe to unfollow if we are not benefiting or somehow gaining from their tweets. We can't do that in real life.

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 11:10 AM by Grace


I should have thought of that when doing my twitter & technology cartoons. Nice one!

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 11:33 AM by AmericanHell


Great stuff! I totally agree. There's many rules deciding who to follow back, some of them touched on at the Designer vs Developer comic comic. :)

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 11:47 AM by Paddy


good stuff. Thanks

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 6:22 PM by Sarah Montague


Love it. Put it on my blog and referenced back at yah!

posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 4:59 AM by Pete


Funny :)

posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 8:29 AM by Fubiz


Worthy of the New Yorker!

posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 12:09 PM by Janine Libbey


That's the advantage in social media. You are given a choice to follow back those who follow you. Nice cartoon.

posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 8:22 AM by ShriNagesh


Just used the TWEET IT button (@revnyou) - that is FANTASTIC. I want one. Thanks for the laugh. Happy Friday.

posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 1:23 PM by Julie


I never realized all of the possible ramifications of my saying that I follow all my followers! LOL! 
Of course, with some of my followers on Twitter located around the world, I would consider following to Paris, Australia, Spain, England. Italy, Amsterdam, Singapore, Italy, etc. ... if First class round trip tickets and accommodations were provided! 
 
Judy Rey Wasserman 
On Twitter: judyrey 
 

posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 4:14 PM by Judy Rey Wasserman


Reminds me of a stray cat. Only this guy is a cool cat. Don't feed him and he will go away.

posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 9:10 PM by Arthur Tugman


Great Cartoon! Thanks!

posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 5:32 PM by Sadohov


Very, very funny! I absolutely love it :)

posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 2:28 PM by Magdalena


Hilarious! Great cartoon for our modern day lives.

posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 1:16 AM by Justin


That for real, hahaha

posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 1:54 AM by Lozzo


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