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Wed, 02 Mar 2011

What Did I Say?

I've gotten some unexpected followers on Twitter recently.

2/28/11 - Stornoway Diamonds - Vancouver - Stornoway Diamond Corporation is a leading Canadian diamond exploration and development company
3/01/11 - Bayfield Ventures - Gold and Precious, Silver, Platinum Metal Exploration Company.
3/02/11 - Stronghold Metals - The Company is currently arranging a drill program on its flag property, the Eagle Mountain Project in Guyana.
3/02/11 - Aben Resources - (formerly Consolidated Abaddon Resources) is a Canadian gold, rare earth and uranium exploration company.
3/02/11 - Amato Exploration - Vancouver The Company currently holds a silver exploration property and an iron ore property in Northern Mexico.
3/02/11 - Golden Peaks Ltd. - Vancouver is a progressive international exploration and resource development company with its primary focus in Indonesia.
3/02/11 - Prodigy Gold Incorporated - is a Vancouver-based gold exploration and mine development company with assets in Eastern Canada.
They follow 4074.

What do they know about me that I don't realize?
What's the Canadian connection? Many/most are from Vancouver, Canada.

There have also been some educators and the occasional guy like:
Aaron
@AaronSSAA U.S.
...who sent this tweet:
"#Quit_Smoking #electric_cigarette Electric cigarette | Is it safe to install propylene glycol and the electronic.."
...along with several others of similar content.

I'd call him a troller or spammer, probably looking for me to follow him out of courtesy, since he is following me. Or maybe some Twitter process sets up recommendations based on who a person follows, and I'm on the hook for "Aaron" to get more followers because he follow me.

As of today, I have 82 followers. I follow many of them and a bunch who don't follow me, too: 116 I'm following.

I've tweeted 850 times.

My profile says that I am "Advocating: Open Source, Open Access, Open Education, Open Minds."

However, I also do some posting of random thoughts. One of my tweets:
02-11/11 - Is filling a series of potholes related to micro-pave as paving a street to ordinary pave? [pronounce as French, pavay.] #humor #diamonds
Really? Could the mere mention of diamonds have started the ball rolling? Did one company after another jump aboard my tweets because of that?

And it looks like some have already stopped following.
Oh well.