Matt Bernier

Un-friend, un-follow, and sell are the negative sides to Facebook, Twitter and Empire Avenue, respectively. Each of these shows that it is possible to give your vote in Social Media without actually saying anything. This is a lot like the theory that “you vote when you shop, by not buying Jiffy you say that you don’t like Jiffy”.  My questions is though, why does it matter to me if you stop following me?  (or why do I like honey more than jelly with my peanut butter?) For brevity’s sake I will use “follow” to refer to friending, liking, following, buying, or selling from now on. In the grand scheme of things, I don’t really care if you stop following me…. » Read More

I have been playing with Twitter Lists today, since I was given the privilege today.  The first thing I thought was, I would really like to get a list of all my Denver friends. So here you go: Denver Area People – 500 users Denver Area People 2 – 500 users Denver Area People 3 – 288 Users Denver Area Businesses – 12 users If you know someone who should be on this list, please tell me and I will add them in.  Just contact me on Twitter! Sphere: Related Content… » Read More

Twitter API with Zend Part 1.  Post Moved to ReinforceMedia.com… » Read More

So, when I built ProbableFollow.com it was perfectly clear to me why I was building it.  It seems that maybe I live in my own little bubble where flowers bloom, the sun rises every day, and as I skip and whistle through the forest while all the wonderful animals harmonize with me. It turns out that my idea has caused some controversy and some very confused tweeple.  Some people seem to think that I am making a statement and pushing my non-twitter-purist ideals on them because they have a low follow back probability.  Some people seem to think that I am aggrandizing those that follow everyone back, just because I put the 98%+ crowd on the homepage. So, I will… » Read More

These are all of the features I would like to see in a single twitter app.  If there is a twitter app that already has all of these features, then tell me, so I can STFU and get my perfect app.  I would love it if this could happen. Twitter Features Following/Unfollowing Allow me to follow or unfollow people from the app. I know the API has this feature. Search Yep, I want to be able to search. Yep, I would like the results to be in a time line like my normal feed Yep, I would like to have multiple searches Nope, you don’t have to keep these running in the background, just run them when I look at… » Read More

I have been doing quite a bit of marketing via Twitter recently.  During this effort, I have noticed a couple of trends in the automatic Direct Messages I am getting when I follow people. (I am assuming that most people have an automatic Direct Message).  Some of them I don’t like, some I understand, and some I feel are inappropriate.  You make the call, I just listed them in generic groups below. Excited You’re following me?  FABULOUS!  U Rock!  Let the tweets begin. Thanks for the follow! You rock Please check out my Young Internet Entrepreneur blog ****** You totally ROCK, thanks for the follow! Please @me anytime. Seen ***** yet? How can I help U? FaceBook What I don’t… » Read More

I really wish I had a video recorder on my iPhone # 48 emails and 92 twitter posts to start out my day… # @jhartikainen yeah, i know. It’s pretty lame that the iPhone cant/wont do it without jailbreak. # @ctshryock you gotta protect the baby!!! *hopefully getting it today, even though its scheduled for tomorrow. # The tubes provide Soma for the masses (social anesthesia) http://tr.im/ed2t # @ctshryock haha, yeah, but he must really LOVE his computer. Is it like putting a kid in a stroller? # @oudiantebi Thank GOD that IE6 is dying, I can only hope that people realize windows has updates available… # asking people to stop posting the same thing to twitter repeatedly. # I… » Read More

Sick of judgemental people. # Check out the unlimited online backup service chosen by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal. http://tr.im/e3d1 # @chriseaster I just noticed that http://www.failedproposals.com has links to http://www.groomsadvice.com and http://www.themanregistry.com!! # Everyone’s site was marked as “This site may harm your computer” on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/dmn29v # How do you get a client to pay, when they don’t answer email or phone calls? *sent invoice weeks ago # I think I might write software that is so convoluted I make 10x what I sell it for, in support… # listening to Blues All Morning Long # Comcast gives 10 second porn preview during super bowl http://tr.im/e6v5 # @stevepowell I wish I hosted it, would be easy…. » Read More

I forgot to listen when I was telling myself that an rss feed will not work as a sitemap for google. What was I doing? # Apparently Wendy’s employees get paid too much http://tinyurl.com/cuupq9 # My blog currently ranks on the second page for my name. There are people who have had websites longer, but I will be #1, oh yes I will. # you follow me, with 1 update in your account, you are following 90+ people and only 5 following you…uh, no I’m good. # Do I even want to know what happened to Dennis Rodman? I don’t think I do. He scares me # Do I accept the offer of $130 for a domain, ask for $150… » Read More

@chriseaster you can learn it! There are 100 different books on any prog language.. # Making arnold palmer’s and cool hand lukes at home: Priceless # Just hand coded and added a google sitemap to mycityheadlines.com # @chriseaster haha, send me an email with what you want, and I will look into it. Learning a new prog language is like learning Spanish… # @chriseaster Arnold palmers are especially good when made with “Simply Lemonade” and homemade ice tea # It’s amazing. I go to bed with 1 unread message, get to work and there are 30 # I have seen 4 people this morning on twitter who follow no one, but have tons of followers…how does that work? # @hospadam… » Read More