In May 2011 I posted 27 short X updates (Twitter) that blend personal observations, quotations, links, and self‑promotion. The stream highlights my focus on entrepreneurship, tech culture, humor, and occasional political references, while also driving traffic to the REDCOM Blog and my web‑dev agency (www.redcom.in).
- Total messages captured: 27
- Decision: Promote REDCOM Blog (multiple posts link to REDCOM Blog).
- Quote: “Team is the reason #1 your startup can live or die.”
These posts illustrate my early strategy of balancing curation (retweets of thought leaders) with original commentary and direct promotion of my agency and REDCOM Blog. The mix of motivational quotes, tech critiques, and humor helped shape my online voice.
- Quote: “Thts wht entrepreneurship is all abt. Putting everything u got on the table & going all in.”
- Quote: “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
- Quote: “The downside of 'move fast and break things' is that facebook is constantly changing in odd and unnecessary ways.”
- Quote: “Pause for the Paws – Part 3 | REDCOM Blog.”
- Quote: “Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”
- Quote: “Why #Bing Could Beat #Google in Social Search.”
- Quote: “I threw six cricket balls at my girl friend. She yelled - ‘WTF was that for?’ I said - ‘It’s over.’”
- Quote: “lean startup strategies don’t work for business apps because business can't afford to iterate like individual users.”
- Quote: “Customers want new functionality, but they don’t want the traditional complexity.”
- Quote: “Entrepreneurship is that hangover that everyone wants to have, truth is that only few people can actually afford to get drunk.”
- Quote: “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
- Quote: “No matter how many house chores you complete, there are always more to be done.”
- Quote: “Don’t design websites. Design web SYSTEMS!”
- Quote: “Fight Consumerism: Love Your Stuff! : James Shelley.”
- Quote: “#Osama murdered? - Noam Chomsky.”
- Quote: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
- Quote: “Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.”
- Quote: “#Docomo – Stand up jeopardy | REDCOM Blog.”
- Quote: “If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.”
- Decision: Retweet influential voices (frequent RTs of @deanboedeker, @dotmanish, etc.) to build credibility.
- Decision: Self‑brand as a web dev agency (post 2011‑05‑17 05:33).
- Retweets/focus on external content: 15 (≈56 %)
- Original promotional content (REDCOM Blog, agency): 3 (≈11 %)
- Pure quotations (no link): 9 (≈33 %)