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><channel><title>The Freelance Rant &#187; Social Media</title> <atom:link href="http://www.freelancerant.com/category/social-media/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.freelancerant.com</link> <description>Hell... anything goes here</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:02:13 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=abc</generator> <item><title>Productive Use of Twitter: Are You Stalking or Are You Talking?</title><link>http://www.freelancerant.com/2010/07/29/productive-use-of-twitter/</link> <comments>http://www.freelancerant.com/2010/07/29/productive-use-of-twitter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:02:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Johnny</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.freelancerant.com/?p=1228</guid> <description><![CDATA[I tend to have an on-again, off-again relationship with Twitter. Some weeks are just so busy with work that Twitter plays second fiddle to it. I still don't get paid to use it so, sorry there little avatars with personalities, you'll have to wait until next week (or after a night out later tonight).
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/> Maybe it's time to rethink that again for a second. <br
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/> Now I'm not one to buy into using Twitter for the whole celebrity "reaching out to your fans" experience. I can just see it now if I did my daily Twitter stalking and finally received that coveted response.  [...]<br
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