Steve

Regarding the guest post you mentioned. Not really the topic of this conversation.

Attempting to stay on topic here I was simply voicing my opinion about your points on asking for tweets.

Of course Marko I’m not expecting you to start suddenly tweeting my stuff now that would be silly.

I do think mot of your posts are pretty good which is why I took the time to read this post and comment.

I am personal friends with
@phaoloo
@zaibatsu
@mayhemstudios

and a few others you have mentioned above.

These guys retweet my stuff regularly and I retweet theirs as well. It’s not because we expect one another to tweet each others stuff. It’s partly because we are friends yes and it’s partly because we enjoy each others tweets and content. It’s a mutual relationship/friendship.

I’m not suggesting you should always just do everything someone asks you. Your still missing the point here.

You’re clearly stating in your post that part of your strategy is to ask others to tweet your posts, yet you have such high quality control standards that it’s a rare occasion and unlikely that you will ever return the favor.

Let me give you a real life example. You had post a while back that was submitted to digg. You asked me for help which I was glad to go out of my way to help you via shouting the story and spreading the word about your story among the digg community. Not saying I did it single handedly but the story did hit the digg home page briefly. The next day I ran a couple of things by you that you refused to tweet. Now I don’t expect you or anyone to tweet something on demand but when someone goes out of their way to help you it would be nice (polite) to show some appreciation.

Your position is that you have such “high quality control standards” that it’s unlikely that you will ever return a favor. I know you are a nice guy and your intentions are good but frankly this does sound kind of snobish.