Can we talk about transparency? Her Twitter picture looks NOTHING like her! (at least not for the last 15 years). She says she doesn’t use Twitter for business and yet she earlier said that she got onto Twitter to help a client and figured she should learn about it. Sounds like the “fake it till you make it” plan more than transparency.

Her comments were full of the general “find what’s right for you” crap that even Andy tried to pin her down for specifics and finally gave up. @CoachDeb gave specific ways to use Twitter and remembered to give definitions of terms for people not familiar with the lingo.

Then there are the number of followers she has just since November – some 25,000 and now I look and she’s up to 31,000 while Deb is up by 700. How does one accomplish that? It appears that she follows 2000 more than her number which reeks of a bot doing the following for her, and yet she claims “It’s not my business…It’s social”. This doesn’t ring as truth to me when you follow 34,000 people.

I’ll take the 700 followers of @CoachDeb over the 6,000 of @AlohaArleen any day. She said “It’s really putting the personal and the humanness back into the internet”, but tell me how she gets 6000 followers in two weeks and can still call it “personal” and not about spamming. She’s falling on semantics with the “I don’t do what I call blurting”, and then admits that Twitter leads to business.

AND, to me, personal is great, but business is important for all of us. I would never have bothered to call her on her crap if she weren’t so condescending in her disdain for business on Twitter while obviously exploiting the business aspect. I think she doth protest too much.

Where does the disdain come from for using Twitter for business? I see that she replies constantly in her twitter stream. That is, indeed, very personal of her, but I guess I’m missing something.

Enlighten me, if I’m wrong. And @CoachDeb, you came with poise, professionalism and content as usual.

Our followers WANT to learn from us and we would be doing a disservice if we didn’t let them know when we post kick ass content for them to enjoy and learn from on our blog.

Also, it almost sounds as if it’s the guilty feeling arleen speaks of not telling peeps of her biz.

It’s like those few peeps who get upset when we announce our info products – noone should be feeling bad about tweeting about GREAT info products.

If you stand behind what you do and know it rocks, then let the world know and be cool about it!

Thanks JP & Deb!

–Z–

Keep up the great work!

As social media grows, it will interesting to see what new avenues open up.

Bobby “Whataman” Jackson