I’ve been thinking about this a lot, lately. The amount of compromised Twitter spam comes from one camp in particular - the “social media experts”. In other words, what a twelve year old WoW kiddie understands - not to click on links of unknown provenance and always use a URL expander - the “experts” don’t.
No one would take a city planning consultant seriously if they didn’t have an architecture or civil engineering degree. Who’d take a medical consultant’s word if it didn’t come from someone with - at the very least - a sound understanding of the human body.
I am no social media expert. I am a Chef. I cook things.
For 106 miles I needed a way to get YouTube into Tumblr. The obvious way, finding an app for that, didn’t work. Android’s Tumblroid app does a few things right, spewing back a YouTube link for inclusion into a Tumblr video post isn’t one of them.
So I had to improvise. The result is a 19 line Python script. Use Google’s gdata API to fetch my last videos, and if one’s new use the Tumblr API to post it. Simple as that. 9 lines are exclusively to keep a running tally of already posted videos and to do some debugging.
So here’s my suggestion. Next time someone claims to be a social media expert (or consultant) give them the following task:
I want to post content via device A onto social media site B. I also want this content to be redistributed to sites C and D, making sure I am not getting feedback loops or dupes. I also do not want to use any redistribution techniques native to site B.
If they can’t do this treat them like you’d treat a race car expert that doesn’t know how to change a tire on a race car. Laugh, walk off. I do. Quite often, actually :)
