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A Tweet that didn’t mince words for #STL

February 22nd, 2009 Rex Dixon Leave a comment Go to comments

I just so happened to be on twitter search a few hours ago when I saw the #followlist tweet. While I was there checking that out, I decided to see what was up in the #STL. The below was sitting at the top of the list. I just went back on another search for #iab, and it was still sitting at the top of the list.

The question is – who is @thedarz and why is his hate for the STL so big that he has to come out and F-Bomb the whole city? Interesting things you find via hashtags.

Update: One of the cool things about blogging, is sometimes you can get immediate reaction. My apologies to @jjeffryes, at times I can pull the trigger really quick, in this case I was totally wrong about this person.

Another thing that I saw was this guy here, @jjeffryes saying how the STL is 10 years behind in social media. He even went on to say it again via another tweet right here. Yes, I went to his site – saw no way to contact him – so left a comment on the blog post he had there. I even did a ping on his above tweet.

Technically Speaking, the first part of being any type of social media person, is the first part of that over used phrase. If you can’t be social or even respond to pings that you asked for, than you may as well be classified in the first F-bomb person’s group.

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Josh Chernoff

You have to take the good with the bad in St.Louis.

I have met very cool and very lame people in St.Louis. I have had opportunities I would have never got any where else, yet I have also struggled to get work.

Seeing as I have lived in the St.Louis area for only one and half years I could see how it would frustrate some one to a extreme. At the same time most of that for me was only to due with my lack of resources and support from my peers.

If there was one thing I could say that could be better in St.Louis would have to be the seance of community could be better. But once again that is coming from some one who has been here a short while.

I can say this, Josh Jefferys is a good guy and is passionate about this city. I have seen him try to help people here many times. I have also seen him write about his frustrations with the problems that most people face here. So you should go easy on the guy.

Even still you have to agree that the city is going through a ruff time and some people are starting to feel and express it. The only thing you can do is try to lend your support to the people who need it and hope that's all they needed.

RexDixon

@Josh - yes, I jumped the gun on @jjeffryes - my bad totally! ;) We are chatting now via e-mail, so all is good.

Right now, I don't think it matters if you live in St. Louis - Chicago - Kansas City - Minneapolis - or anywhere east or west of any of those cities. Things are bad everywhere. Stress is at an all time high everywhere.

Next time I feel like posting something about the STL, I'll try to post something positive!

Julia Dalton

I would be interested in hearing what caused the comment. It is a pretty harsh statement. What's the matter, don't like the ever-changing weather, toasted ravioli, or was it the Arch that put him over the edge I wonder. Could be a number of things I suppose but either way, I doubt we will ever get the answer and I am not even sure I care to know.

RexDixon

@julia - yeah, I would like to know also, but WTFK's! I did check him out for a sec, and seems like he neither follows a bunch of people, and not many follow him either. I did however jump the gun on @jjeffryes, which I feel badly about. So again - WTFK's - I could be totally wrong about @thedarz also!

J. Jeffryes

Whoa, cool your jets there, firecracker. I didn't respond to the ping because I was taking care of my kids while my wife was sick. I guess that makes me some kind of jerk, hmmm? :)

RexDixon

@J - not really - found you there but was more talking about the first guy/person who was f-bombing.

J. Jeffryes

The way your wrote it leaves it unclear who you're calling out. That got me a little heated, honestly. But that's a matter for private discourse, not public.

RexDixon

@J - Yes, it probably isn't totally clear as written, but read my e-mail responses, and you'll see I was in the nearly same boat just a short while ago. :)

J. Jeffryes

Thanks man. See you Wednesday.

RexDixon

@tojosan - thanks for leaving all this great information. Now if we can find out who those two are, and maybe engage them, that would even be better!

tojosan

Well, the truth being that St. Louis is playing catch up in being visible in the social media and social networking circles. There are probably a slew of great folks participating, but it's a far cry from 'big city' participation.

There's a social media club that's all but dead.

On the up side, there's a bloggers guild, plenty of tweetups, and several web 2.0 relative companies I believe.

A couple of others and I organized a BarCampStL at the end of last year, and looking to do another very soon.

So, yeah, behind maybe, but I'd wager mostly in visibility.

What would help? Wordcamps? Barcamps? Podcamps? etc. Those would totally rock, and I'm totally there to help.

Problem in St. Louis? Still think small town and act that way. Still think neighbors and neighborhoods over greater metro area. Too many folks want to 'own' things like get togethers ane events.

I'm all for participating in as many as we can and not focusing on owning it.

Thanks for calling out the overly negative folks. Negativity <> making things better!
@tojosan on Twitter.