I am off to Atlantic City to take a vacation with Amanda’s family. I rarely take days off (even when this blog doesn’t post, I’m still working), but the timing is appropriate.
Starting September 1st, there are 365 days of constant production activity from the beginning of A Million High Fives to the end. The project timeline will be online soon.
Before I take off, I want to address something before other folks touch on it:
My Dramatic Following / Follower Change
By the time most of you read this, I won’t be following anyone on Twitter. This is temporary. As I mentioned earlier, starting when I get back from Atlantic City, I will be using Twitter very differently from how I have been. Please know, I intend on following every person back as fast as Twitter will allow me.
As of yesterday, I am no longer on the Suggested User List. You will notice the flip-side to being on that list if you watch my follower count. While it was almost a guaranteed few thousand followers, at least 500 of those each day would unfollow you. I assume this will continue until the number of people actually following me appears, and I have intentionally accelerated this by doing a “loic” through Socialtoo.com
Before I was on the list, my count was a couple of thousand, maybe five thousand if we’re being generous. I’d like to think our efforts across America, the media appearances, and the guest posting has helped bring that number up, but we won’t know for a few days. Feel free to place your bets, but if you put any money on it, please consider donating that money to InvisiblePeople.tv
This is like popping a hot air balloon. Thankfully though, the ride didn’t get off the ground and we have time to find a new balloon. Remember, engagement counts, not the number of followers. That’s what I want the new balloon to be, engaged volunteers on Twitter. Everyone else is I encourage to join me on Facebook.
And for those of you who recall my plan to catch Ashton Kutcher in terms of followers and ding dong ditch him, it’s still on my friends, but I’m looking for several million engaged volunteers, not followers. 1,000 dedicated people can do tremendous people, several million? That can change the world, and that’s what we’re setting out to do.
See you this weekend.
*Just a note: I am a huge Twitter fan, I remain a huge Twitter fan, and they have been nothing but supportive of my projects since 2007, so I don’t want anyone to take this as a knock or a gripe on my end. It’s not. I politely thanked them for having me on the list, and I’m re-focusing how I use the service. I just wanted to honestly address what will likely be a major change in the number of people following me.
