IMHO it's bad form to automatically feed your Facebook status with your Twitter tweets as a one-way toss over the transom. I'm seeing an increasing number of Facebook accounts where my newsfeed shows someone's status update along with replies and ensuing conversations, but where the original poster is oblivious to this because they don't check in on Facebook.

It's OK to connect your services, but be responsible for the conversations you start.

Just saying.

 

Ashton Kutcher now has more subscribers on Twitter than any US newspaper except USA Today and Wall Street Journal has for its paper news.
He's closing fast on those two that one. (In the one day since I started writing this blog, he's surpassed the Wall Street Journal).

If you don't think the comparison counts, I wonder how many of his 2 million followers buy or read paper news as regularly as they check Twitter?

How does this flocking behavior work in social media? Kind of like this (RT @aplusk):

  

Cisco has replaced General Motors on the Dow 30 Industrials index, further symbolizing the rise of the well-clichéd "Information Superhighway" relative to industries based on actual superhighways.  This isn't a literal substitution - people haven't dramatically moved to drive less because online shopping is easier, though it does seem to be elastic with gas prices.

Recall the Yellow Pages slogan "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking" which implied that at one time, you had to do a lot of walking (not driving) to find goods and services.
AT&T is still in the Dow 30, as fingers still walk over keyboards and cell phones, while B.F. Goodrich, maker of shoes for all that real world walking and tires for all that real world driving, joins GM in the league of also-rans.