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Public Service Video

I’m pitching this to the SFA as a cautionary tale of modern-day snake oil.

Edit: Screw it – have it free via Youtube. If you like it, I have a special offer on great advice on your Twitter account for a mere €500 per half-hour….

Further Edit: Between here and Youtube, this video has now been viewed more than 25,000 times since Thursday. Holy crap.

15 comments

1 Mire Man { 09.30.09 at 9:58 am }

Very good…and yet…I still feel a need to pay someone for social media networking advice… I’m lucky I have no money.

2 Mark Dennehy { 09.30.09 at 1:30 pm }

Utterly brilliant! :)

3 VCurrentAffairs { 09.30.09 at 1:52 pm }

Hahahahaaaaaa! Genius :-)

4 A Fan { 10.01.09 at 8:32 am }

Love It.
Not a grain of truth, a flipping landslide of it – hopefully it will hit some of the “social media experts” and sweep them away (it’s a vain hope, but you gotta dream)

5 Jules { 10.02.09 at 6:29 pm }

Jesus. This is hysterical. THANK YOU!

6 The Social Media Guru { 10.02.09 at 10:41 pm }

[...] will be available for Mac users sooner than later. Still, the truth hurts. Telling us he’ll gladly give us a special offer for advice on our Twitter accounts (translation: “I’ll sit on your Facebook and whack [...]

7 joe daverin { 10.03.09 at 12:59 am }

funny as heck, and a cool little toy too, i made: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20091002203803966

8 markhamnolan { 10.03.09 at 10:27 am }

Thanks for all the comments on this, folks.

A lot of people on the Youtube version claiming that they ‘know’ this guy. There is no actual guy, he’s an amalgam of a hundred different guru-wannabes I’ve encountered online and in real life.

I found the tools for this post here so if you haven’t already followed the duckrabbit crowd, do.

Enjoy playing with xtranormal.com – it’s a cracking little tool..
M

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13 GoingLikeSixty { 10.10.09 at 7:39 pm }

Congratulations on a wonderful piece of work. If it wasn’t so sad, (but true) it would be hilarious.

14 GoingLikeSixty { 10.10.09 at 7:43 pm }

Oh, BTW: I didn’t tweet your post.

15 Social Media Guru : HearVox { 10.11.09 at 6:10 am }

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