Comments on: When Seth Godin isn’t Seth Godin

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:37:16 +0000

I find comments like this so utterly ridiculous and laughable:

TylerReed Tweets – “I am no longer following @SethGodin until he decides to follow other people.. he’s a cool dude.. but I have an RSS reader to see his posts.”

As if they’re owed something? Who are you to determine that someone HAS to follow others before you follow them? Do you really think they’re going to think: “Well golly, *insert name of random person* isn’t going to follow me anymore? I better spend a few hours following some people”. Free world people.

By: Jan Altendorff

Jan Altendorff — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:24:28 +0000

Looks like Seth got his identity back ‘cos the Twitter account is locked down now and it’s Seth smiling back at you on the profile!

By: Paul Hassing

Paul Hassing — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:40:24 +0000

Great article! I was very surprised to learn Seth wasn’t active on Twitter, but then figured he had more & bigger fish to fry.

When I joined Twitter & was hunting role models, I was amused to find several fake Joe Vitales. It was like an Elvis convention! At that moment, the REAL Joe Vitale tweeted asking how he could deal with his impersonators!

It’s a funny new world, alright! P. :)

By: Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:45:50 +0000

Such a good point. I do have my name website but had not thought of securing my name on the social sites. Thank you so much for this post.

The Story Lady

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:10:14 +0000

Unwitting Twittering

It has long been known that on the Internet no one knows you are a dog.
Today, with the widespread adoption of web 2.0 tools and technologies, the rapid dissemination of false and malicious misrepresentation and the attendant fallout can be widespread and instantaneous.

By: Ryan Kuder

Ryan Kuder — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:12:05 +0000

I was one of the people who was disappointed with how Seth Godin was using Twitter and I dropped a few @sethgodin’s about it. Today on Seth’s blog, he talked about using Twitter to build up relationships over time. Which goes completely counter to how “Seth” uses Twitter. So I wrote him a letter…

http://www.ryankuder.com/2008/04/an-open-letter-to-seth-godin/

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:18:58 +0000

I just had my name stolen; it was just by spammers on Blogger, but this still hits close to home. My counter-attack, as you suggested, is to register my name on every other network that seems important. Even little-known bloggers with crazy names have to be careful.

By: Wine and Food Pairing

Wine and Food Pairing — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:50:32 +0000

Good advice, Valeria – I have a google alert on my name, too.
Kathleen Lisson

By: Paul Burani, Clicksharp Marketing

Paul Burani, Clicksharp Marketing — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:11 +0000

Might be a good idea if some innovator offered the real person (Seth Godin, Darren Rowse, Paul Burani and other internet demigods) a way to register likely IP addresses from which they would register an account. That way, if someone is based in New York and a bunch of content development is coming fro an IP in California, a red flag goes up and the imposter can be stomped out.

By: Shawn@MoneyBrick

Shawn@MoneyBrick — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:22:43 +0000

I learned about this blog entry through Seth’s actual blog today… and I totally agree with Seth’s point of view in regards to all these social-networking tools we have available today on the web. (I totally support that he only actively uses a blog.)

It’s too bad that people have been fooled into thinking that it’s Seth himself using Tweeter, but I suppose it comes with the territory.

All these things, I feel, are just tools to promote a certain ends. With all these social-networking tools… all people are doing are promoting themselves… which, if you are “lucky” enough to get a huge following (thus becoming a “superstar”), it’d be impossible to keep tabs on just as many people. It would be inconceivable to ask a movie-star to also keep tabs on every one of his or her fan’s lives, wouldn’t it?

In the end, I just want to say that keeping track of some web-personality’s each and every movement may be considered an excellent use of time for some… but originally, weren’t we supposed to be discovering good ideas and sparking our own imaginations?

By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:52:21 +0000

Hi Darren,

thanks a lot for the info ! I’m not using twitter, but I will lock my account NOW !

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:43:30 +0000

A while ago my friend registered on MySpace as “Orly Bloom”, intending it to be a homage page to Orlando Bloom. Soon she was getting loads of fanmail from young girls who hadn’t realised that she wasn’t actually Mr Bloom. She’s since deleted the account.

By: TrishaLyn

TrishaLyn — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:01:19 +0000

That’s interesting… I had no idea it wasn’t him but that makes perfect sense.

I have to agree that since I already subscribe to Seth’s blog in my reader there’s no reason to clutter my tweets with his feed.

Thanks for sharing!

By: Roxanne Darling

Roxanne Darling — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:31:05 +0000

I find it odd that Seth has not had the account deleted. It’s my understanding that Twitter has been pretty responsive on name spoofers.

It’s also another good reason why not to jump to conclusions; thanks for doing the research on this one!

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:24:45 +0000

There’s a lot of spoofing of presidential candidates. I’ve been followed by Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, John McCain, and another I forget — except they’re all really Ron Paul fans. That is deceptive.

Meanwhile, AndersonCooper is a hilarious, obviously satirical fake.

But you make a good point — I should go register in some of the obvious places.

CAM

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:22:39 +0000

I decided to go look at Twitter for the first time. I was SHOCKED to see someone using technosailor for their name.

What would you suggest doing about it? :)

By: Cat Laine

Cat Laine — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:59:47 +0000

Oh I’m glad to know that it’s Fake Seth Godin. All this time I though he just couldn’t be asked to participate. I stopped following him for the same reasons the twitterers described.

By: Catherine L

Catherine L — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:47:56 +0000

Ethan you plonker. I bet you thought you’d well overslept didn’t you? Darren lives in Australia. That’s why he’s ahead of us all.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:45:38 +0000

Wow, this amazes me. I follow Not Seth Godin and often click through. Like Darren says, it’s sort of an informal RSS for me. (I do this with Problogger too–in fact, that’s how I came here just now.)

In fact, once there was a SG post that was no longer than the Tweet, which I remarked on. I figured SG was playing a game to write “real” posts that could fit on Twitter.

If I was SG I would find this really creepy. Thanks so much for alerting us to it.

By: Debby Banning

Debby Banning — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:41:20 +0000

I think this is an important lesson that if you plan to do anything online for a long time to come… you should purchase your name as a domain. What if you became famous and someone already owns your name? They would charge you a fortune to purchase the domain from them! After reading a post by John Chow nearly a year ago, I purchased my name. You never know…