Now Twitter has made it harder to gain the reach as fast and furious but you can still get measured results.

Here is an accounting as of 2010-01-31  20:20:05

1. http://www.twitter.com/chadteverson 59,906 followers
2. http://www.twitter.com/clayoxen 20,618 followers
3. http://www.twitter.com/eweverson 13,020 followers
4. http://www.twitter.com/socialistsqurrl 12,275 followers
5. http://www.twitter.com/temeritymag 9,390 followers
6. http://www.twitter.com/temerityradio 11,956 followers
7. http://www.twitter.com/grizzlyfeed 14,719 followers
8. http://www.twitter.com/wggrn 7,858 followers
9. http://www.twitter.com/grizzlytemerity 1,712 followers
10. Total First Order Followers:                           151,454 This is the Reach the members of our blog, Radio & online Magazine Enjoy daily!

If you are interested in:

• advertising with me through twitter
• Joining our effort to be afforded such reach not only for our effort but your own as well
• Candidate or Campaign wanting to grow their own effort online and using my strategy and service

Please email me: GrizzlyGroundswell@yahoo.com

But, less not talk business.

Instead let’s find some interesting new people and their efforts using Twitter!

Let’s call it:

#Grizzly Twitter

The rules:

1. Go to your twitter account and find an interesting tweet!
2. Go to that Tweeter’s twitter profile and click on their link back to their blog.  If they do not have a blog, Repeat step #1 until you find someone who has a blog url in their profile page.
3. Click on their blog, find an interesting recent post, then lift up that individual and tweet the link!  I use www.hootsuite.com to manage my twitter accounts and rapidly share items to my accounts.  Most blogs should have an easy interface to share their links with twitter if not, get creative.
4. You may want to put document your ventures in #Grizzly Twitter and give those you are lifting up with exposure on your twitter account another lift up by exposing them to your blog readers as well!  Go ahead and add a short comment on impressions of post or overall blog! Get Creative, but most importantly Get #Grizzly!
   

Below is my first adventure in #Grizzly Twitter fun!

1. @ChadTEverson
   1. TPO_Hisself ~ Obama: “What’s everyone so upset over me not talking to the General for? I am the POTUS he’s just a soldier. I won, I get to do what I want.
      • O’Halloran’s O’Page ~  #Grizzly Twitter ~ O’Halloran’s O’Page – A collection of original poetry, photography and digital art Cigars http://ow.ly/12pVt @TPO_Hisself
      • This is the first time I visited O’Halloran’s O’Page it has an older style layout and is filled with great links and I especially love the Capitalist approach in Fight to Take Back America! $1 Great idea and I hope he nets millions and assists us take this country back.  It is a novel approach and I salute it!  I am glad I now have the link here in this post to revisit later when I can investigate more of the content.
2. @GrizzlyFeed
   1. @Proud2b4family ~ not that I mind, as long as I don’t get sales pitches. the more the merrier! Big tent! #tcot
      • The Right of the People ~ Great Stop Spending Video: one to pass on.

      • Click here to view the embedded video.

      • #Grizzly Twitter ~ The Right of the People http://ow.ly/12quP Another great blogger and an old friend I found on Twitter! @Proud2b4family
      • @Proud2b4family was once an author at the old GrizzlyGroundswell.com site.  A power house and great blogger.  I was always impressed with his writings.  He has some great work that can be found here in our archives.
3. @EWEverson
   1. @Find_ch This is my last tweet for 40 days. A full explanation if you really want to know: http://tinyurl.com/ydggqw9
      • Christopher Hopper >>My Blogatical ~ #Grizzly Twitter Christopher Hopper » My Blogatical http://ow.ly/12qFH @find_ch is just another great find using #Grizzly Twitter
      • Chris is taking a much needed break from technology.  I @replied to him that I hope he has a plan to return as well as his plan for a sabbatical.  Since July 27, 2007 I have watched so many talented people shine bright like a shooting star only to burn out quick and never be heard from again.  This saddens me as we all are cheated from their absence.  A suggestion I often give is to get rid of Facebook.  Keep Twitter and your blog.  You blog is the center of your online presence.  If all else fails keep your blog going.  If you need time, then give yourself a 4 day/week holiday.  Use Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to blog.  You should be able to blog 7 posts in three days.  Cheat a bit and do an easy youtube video post for one or two of them.  They always help me when time is tight.  But keep the blog current.  However, like Chris is finding out, you have to be able to step away and recharge, just make sure you come back.  We need you all!
4. @ClayOxen
   1. @CFHeather RT @angrycalifornia: RT @SamiShamieh Krauthammer: The handling of Christmas Day bombing suspect: the scandal grows . http://bit.ly/dClLV1
      • Marxists, Czars & Thieves ~ #Grizzly Temerity ~Marxists, Czars & Thieves http://ow.ly/12qRN Wow another great find using #Grizzly Temerity on www.grizzlygroundswell.com
      • Another great find! I love the name of the blog!  We call them Socialist Squirrels!  A very good looking blog with a ton of content!
5. @TemerityRadio
   1. @RascalTweets ~ To make it as a political commentator one must have either big teeth or be good at interrupting (or both).
      • The Blog of Chris Brady-Leadership, History, Current Affairs, Religion & Humor ~#Grizzly Twitter ~ Author Chris Brady’s Leadership Blog http://ow.ly/12r7c Buy his book “Launching A Leadership Revolution” Looks good!
      • Another great find, I was not aware of the author or the book.  Would be an interesting interview for www.WGGRN.com
6. @SocialistSqurrl
   1. @ItsOnlyWords ~ @JennyErikson Trust me…there are some rears that cannot be made curvy and voluptuous. They are defiantly flat.
      • It’s Only words ~ #Grizzly Twitter ~ It’s Only Words http://ow.ly/12rfi Hey Check this Great Blog out! @itsonlywords Another Great #Grizzly Twitter find here!
      • Wow, a funny tweet but a great find! Check this blog out! Solid, Elegant and worth a read!
7. @TemerityMag
   1. @ChuckDeVore ~ (via @KamaainaInOC) Stan from Sammamish gave $10 to my campaign to help defeat Boxer. U can help 2: http://bit.ly/6vFdRq #tcot
      • Chuck DeVore for United States Senate-2010 ~ #Grizzly Twitter ~ Chuck DeVore for United States Senate – 2010 http://ow.ly/12rm5 Anything to get rid of the Skank Boxer & Soc. Squirrels!
      • Maybe Chuck Devore should buy advertising through us and really get the online reach he deserves!  Anything to get rid of any socialist squirrel especially Boxer!
8. @WGGRN
   1. @ChiNewsBench ~ RT @jaspernv White House says they are one vote away from ramming Obamacare through Congress. http://twurl.nl/2w8qfx
      • Chicago News Bench ~ #Grizzly Twitter ~ Chicago News Bench http://ow.ly/12ru6 A Conservative in Chicago! Another Great Find Great Blog! #Temerity
      • Wow what a great Conservative blog find in Chicago of all places! A ton of Content and some great stuff here!
9. @GrizzlyTemerity
   1. @PROMEDIA ~ Planned for the beginning of the year but I finally updated my bio on my blog with my goals for 2010, it’s now an even longer read….
      • Vincent Sparreboom: Taking on the Dream of a 6 day Weekend ~ #Grizzly Twitter ~ Online Business Opportunities and Online Business Education by Vincent Sparreboom http://ow.ly/12rFf  last of the Night
      • This is very interesting blog and site.  A lot of helpful online business tips and the last #Grizzly Twitter of the night!

As I finish this little excercise I am sold on its worth and value.  Every fellow tweeter I found tonight was worth the time and effort! Most I am planning on making time to revisit and dig in a bit deeper.

Try it and let me know your impressions.

Chad T. Everson

President

Theodore Media

GrizzlyGroundswell@yahoo.com

763-244-3265

#FAIL!

Q. What business entity disables your account after you bring them 6000 new contacts?

A. Facebook: It just happened to our effort and my personal account.  It seems every week at least 3-5 of our members are booted from this #fail entity!

This has me rethinking my whole #Grizzly strategy utilizing social media as the seat of our three legged stool approach here in Theodore Media’s Grizzly Groundswell.

• We just watched elections being influenced and out right stolen in 2008.  Ex. Al Franken, MN With the advent of Mega Monopolies like Facebook, will our voice be allowed to be expressed online or has the censorship started?
• With Mega Monopolies developing online today how are we positioning ourselves strategically to be able to reach the American people and win hearts and minds?
• There has to be a new way of looking at Social Media!

I can not tell you how many hours I spent growing my Facebook presence alone.  Even more time developing the 146,000+ first order followers on Twitter.  Although for some arbitrary reason that I can only assume was sending too many customers to Facebook.com they have erased my online presence and all my effort is gone.  No explanation, and no compensation for the business and contacts lost.

Q. What will it take to get me back on Facebook?

A. Conservative Ownership

Conservatives own very few major “Faucets” on the internet.  “Faucets” of the cybersphere are by my definition entities that control the flow of people and information.  Ex. The Associated Press, Facebook.com, Twitter.com, Digg.com, Technoratti.com, Youtube.com and many others.

We trust these sites with not only our personal information but also we do business with them.  I spent more advertising dollars with Facebook.com then any other entity online today.  My business with them is returned by being banned for bringing them more customers…#Fail!

So how do we establish some hard and fast rules to keep our strategies from relying upon these mega monopolies that are fickle to us Conservatives and unreliable.  Take this point to heart.  Election 2010, most of our candidates are pouring their money, labor and effort into entities such as Facebook.  October, when the final push is needed to communicate with their followers, friends and supporters their accounts go disabled.  Hamstrung, we loose again.  Now what are the steps or hard and fast rules we should remember and guide us to victory utilizing Social media?

This is not an exhaustive list but a start, please feel free to add to it in the comments and trackback posts.

1. Always Own your Communication vehicle, website or blog. Ownership is huge and it is the one aspect any Conservative should be inherently understand but seem not to grasp.  You must own your own entity.
2. Utilize only Social Networks that send new contacts and members back to your owned Entity! Facebook.com is not a good entity because it does a good job of being inclusive making it difficult to get your contacts and members off Facebook back to your entity.  Remember you can build a presence on Facebook.com but like I and our members find out each week, it all can disappear with their fickle finger of #Fail!
3. Invest time, labor and advertising only in Social Media that directs traffic back to your owned entity. If you do not adhere to this simply profound rule you like I will one day be very disappointed.
4. Always lift up ownership of online “Faucets” when ever possible. I think it is a really bad idea to develop a business only for Conservatives and remove ourselves from the American public.  However, there are entities out there owned by Conservatives that should be lifted up and fully utilized.  Other then my own I am having a seriously hard time coming up with any.  My effort may not even qualify as it only serves Conservatives.  With the business climate being so anti-Conservatism you and I will be hard pressed to ferret out Conservative business owners who serve the general American citizen.  That in itself is a sad statement of reality.
5. Diversify, Diversify, Diversify. One third of my social media effort was taken down by Facebook.com when it disabled my account.  That will never happen to me again.  We must find at least ten different approaches to social media so that if one or more are taken away, it is only a small percentage of momentum stolen from us.

I am going to leave this to 5 suggestions and will appreciate your additions and suggestions as well as your insight.