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We’re Moving To CopywritingDean.com

Posted By Stephen Dean on March 8th, 2009

I’m changing my domain name for this blog. You can find new posts here: http://www.copywritingdean.com

I decided Stephensblog.com wasn’t the best domain for my business. My name (Stephen) is kind of hard to spell. Many people spell it wrong. And it’s spelled differently than it sounds.

Ideally I’d move to StephenDean.com, but that domain is not available and likely not for sale. Apparently there’s a French artist with the same name as me who got it first. (I have emailed about it, but never got a response.)

So what to do…

CopywritingDean.com makes a lot of sense to me.

* It does have my last name in it “Dean.”
* It contains the keyword I’m targeting most.
* It kind of has a double meaning. Copywriting Dean, or Dean of Copywriting. You know?!
* And it better explains my site.

This site currently gets a lot of search engine traffic, and I don’t want to leave it all behind. So I’m going to keep it up for a while and see what I can do with the traffic.

Hopefully I’ll be able to build up links to http://www.copywritingdean.com quickly. If you already have me in your blogroll, I’d really appreciate it if you changed the URL to copywritingdean.com.

If you don’t have me in your blogroll, I’d really appreciate it if you added me :)

Again, thanks for reading everyone.

 

Does anyone really follow 2000 people on twitter?

Posted By Stephen Dean on January 9th, 2009

Twitter recently put a limit on the number of people you can follow: 2000. (People who already followed more than 2000 people still get to.)

Now… who on earth can follow 2000 people? Probably no one.

But when you’re trying to be social, it’s nice to follow people back after they follow you… even if it’s only for cosmetic purposes.

I doubt anyone actually pays attention to 2000 people twittering. Tools like http://www.tweetdeck.com allow you to officially be following 2000 people on twitter, but only selectively follow the tweets or tweeters inside the Tweetdeck software portal.

That’s what I do and it works great. I have a Rockstar group where I follow some big names… and a friends group where I follow friends/family/non-business peeps. (This group may be the real rock stars!)

If you’re using twitter, get Tweetdeck. It makes it easy to be polite and follow back… even if your twitter page is getting out of control with tweets.

Of course, the 2000 follow limit makes it a lot harder to be polite for very long. My hope is that it will go away.

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2 Responses to “Does anyone really follow 2000 people on twitter?”

Chris Lockwood (1 comments.)
January 9th, 2009 at 11:14 pm

The limit on following 2000 is only until you get 2000 following you, then it goes up.

I do know some people who follow more than that and interact with many of them. Even if you follow 2000, probably only 100-200 of them will be active on Twitter (more than a tweet a day).

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Stephen Dean
January 12th, 2009 at 4:31 am

Sweet, thanks for the clarification Chris.