International trouble brewing…
Tensions this high haven’t been seen since the Cuban missle crisis and people on all sides are scrambling to find an amicable resolution. At 1:09 am CST on November 26, 2008, Qwitter.com notified both Benn Rosales, founder of AgentGenius.com and Lani Rosales, New Media Director of AgentGenius.com that ActiveRain.com CEO Jonathan Washburn was no longer following either on microblogging service Twitter.com.
ActiveRain.com was unavailable for comment, but AgentGenius.com has sent in Condoleeza Rice on their behalf, stay tuned as the international crisis mounts, updates will be given in comments.
Happy Thanksgiving, folks.
Jay Thompson
November 26, 2008 at 9:46 am
Huh. Must be some sort of international conspiracy as Jonathan stopped following me on Twitter too!
Chris Shouse
November 26, 2008 at 9:46 am
I got quitted too!!!! Looked over on @JonWashburns twitter stream. Said he was trimming him twitter and he was ready to give twitter a try again! WHAT?
Monika
November 26, 2008 at 9:51 am
He stopped following me too…guess I’m in good company.
Jim Reppond
November 26, 2008 at 9:52 am
Lani,
He stopped following me too last night at about 10:30pm. It was shortly after I published a favorable blog of Dwellicious, mentioning Benn’s great review.
Do you think it could be Dwellicious-envy?
Jim
Mike Mueller
November 26, 2008 at 9:54 am
I looked at who he was following and they all seem to be Soccer Moms. How strange is that?
Matt Kelly
November 26, 2008 at 10:02 am
Some dialogue needs to be established immediately between all of these fine organizations. No pre-conditions, just start talking it out.
I think Jay and Chris need to establish some dialogue with Jon as well.
Therefore my suggestion would be to video poke Jon on Facebook and see if you all can establish a discussion.
Hope that helps end this potentially tragic crisis.
Matt.
The Harriman Team
November 26, 2008 at 10:20 am
Ha! He didn’t unfollow US…he just never…followed us…at all.
JustinLoans
November 26, 2008 at 10:30 am
Oh Snap 🙂
Chris Griffith
November 26, 2008 at 10:50 am
I don’t think anyone is following me at this point. 😉
Chris Shouse
November 26, 2008 at 10:52 am
@mattkelly maybe we could get @ResPres to poke for us since he knows how to start POKE WARS what do you think Jay?
Ines
November 26, 2008 at 11:04 am
He stopped following me too! Maybe it’s a conspiracy – although @respres thought it may be the mojitos.
realestatechick
November 26, 2008 at 11:06 am
I didn’t get un-followed…but then again…I was never followed in the first place. Is that because I didn’t have “soccer mom” in my profile?
:-p
Jason Sandquist
November 26, 2008 at 11:07 am
this is madness! I got the qwit as well
Matt Kelly
November 26, 2008 at 11:07 am
Chris, I think that is an exceptional idea!
Teresa Boardman
November 26, 2008 at 11:10 am
I once heard Jonathan Washburn say he thinks Benn is funny looking.
Mary Pope-Handy
November 26, 2008 at 11:12 am
Ghosts are following me. Weird.
Nick Bostic
November 26, 2008 at 11:17 am
Mark me down as well. Maybe he’s “punishing” everyone who has ever had their name appear on AG.
Teresa Boardman
November 26, 2008 at 11:25 am
He is still following me.
Jonathan Washburn
November 26, 2008 at 11:27 am
Nick,
It’s true, I have it out for The Ag. The movement has gotten to big and it needs to be squashed now.
Everyone here better watch out or the great facebook unfriending will be next.
Jay Thompson
November 26, 2008 at 11:50 am
“He is still following me.”
Uhm, apparently not T.
JW – whaz up? You re-follow some but not me? I’m crushed. 😉 Despite the squashing, I’m still a JW fan.
Paula Henry
November 26, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I’m not even sure if I have qwitter, but I was never followed or unfollowed, so hey, I guess I’m still in the same position I was.
Paula Henry
November 26, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Jonathan – One questions, if Ag is too big and Facebook is next, what will you do about Active Rain?
Dale Chumbley
November 26, 2008 at 12:27 pm
At least some of you were being followed by Mr. Washburn. I couldn’t even get dumped… ;?)
Steve Simon
November 26, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Benn is Funny looking:)
CTannStarr
November 26, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Oh my word… I have no idea who is following me besides Club Chaos. I’m too busy following other people (LMAO). Does this mean I have to go look now? I’m almost afraid… I love AG and AR. I’m gonna grow old with you people. Seriously! 😉
CTannStarr
November 26, 2008 at 12:46 pm
BTW, I would follow Lani, Poppy D, Melodious and Chris Elizabeth almost anywhere. 😀
Matt Stigliano
November 26, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Unfollow me…I dare you. It’ll be the biggest regret in your life. Oh wait, you can’t regret it if you can’t do it. I dare all of you to unfollow me! That’s right, I can take it.
(Please don’t.)
Steve Belt
November 26, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I realize everyone’s trying to have fun here, but isn’t broadcasting unfollows rather poor netiquette?
Todd Carpenter
November 26, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I got quited by JW. So it must be a Lenderama thing as well. To be honest, until I saw the Quitter email, I forgot JW was even on twitter.
Anyway, I quit back, didn’t send any envoys, and moved on. Unfollowing @tcar and @laniar is a serious twitterati fail that’s not worth reconciling.
Benn Rosales
November 26, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Steve, nah… it’s just a holiday
Mike Farmer
November 26, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I’m being followed, but I’m not sure who it is. Does Washburn wear a trenchcoat?
Ines
November 26, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Check it out! Jonathan is now following….hmmmm….I wonder if I should reciprocate?
Maureen Francis
November 26, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I got unfollowed too. Then I went and unsubscribed from my localism communities and sent a message on twitter to @jonwashburn, which he will never see. Not really being that petty about the unfollow. Had already planned to drop the communities, but his unfollow reminded me to take care of that.
Kent Shaffer
November 26, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Epic.
Poppy Dinsey
November 26, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I was never unfollowed…hah!
Matthew Rathbun
November 26, 2008 at 4:22 pm
nice post
San Diego Flat fee mls
November 26, 2008 at 5:15 pm
who the heck is Jonathon Washburn?
Danilo Bogdanovic
November 26, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Think he’s just trying to see who would notice 😉
And Teresa and Ines must be double-agents since they weren’t “unfollowed”
Ines
November 26, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Danilo – no no….I was “unfollowed” but then I was “followed” – who knows what Jonathan was thinking.
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING???
Jonathan Washburn
November 26, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Ines,
I had no idea what I was thinking. I am a twitter novice – have some mercy. 😉
Everytime I try twitter, I end up quitting a few days later cause I get overwhelmed trying to keep up. (I started with twitter before there were twitter aps.) So I figured this time I would try to only follow a few people.
Although it has been a lot of fun watching all of the reaction today – makes me feel special going into the holiday weekend.
Ines
November 26, 2008 at 7:02 pm
you mean to tell me it wasn’t my mojitos?
CTannStarr
November 26, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Oh my word, this really is too funny. (LOL)
Ruthmarie Hicks
November 26, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Well….I guess he stopped not following me too. If you can do that….
Ken Brand
November 26, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I know who Lani and Benn are, who is Jonathan Washburn?
Toby & Sadie
November 26, 2008 at 11:46 pm
OMG! Greatest thing is that I now know about Qwitter.
Jim Gatos
November 27, 2008 at 9:15 am
Who cares? Let’s all follow each other and NOT FOLLOW HIM! That’ll show him! YES!
Matt Thomson
November 27, 2008 at 10:33 am
I have suspected recently that the blog boom (toss Twitter, Facebook, and other social media in with it) is largely due to the fact that many (not all) of the bloggers aren’t doing a fraction of their usual real estate business anymore, thus they have too much time on their hands, thus the online networking boom.
After reading this post, I no longer suspect but know that there’s too much idle time for many in the RE industry.
Benn Rosales
November 27, 2008 at 11:25 am
Hey Matt, we did have a lot of time on our hands yesterday, and our apologies for upsetting you. Obviously, none of us should ever relax, in fact, we should be so critically uptight that producing diamonds from our asses as some do would be the most productive.
It’s a Holiday, Matt- Happy Thanksgiving…
Bob
November 27, 2008 at 12:32 pm
LOL.
Matt Thomson
November 29, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Interesting response Benn. I read and reread my comment, and don’t see anywhere where I said I was upset.
Hope a lucky lady enjoys the diamond you made her.
Ginger Wilcox
November 29, 2008 at 6:57 pm
JW never unfollowed this genius. (nan-ee-nan-ee-fou-fou) Must be my people greeter skills from the AR party.
Jonathan Dalton
November 29, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Wait … people still Twitter? I assumed when I stopped others would (un)follow.
Vicki Moore
November 30, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I’ve read the four comments after this one “Obviously, none of us should ever relax, in fact, we should be so critically uptight that producing diamonds from our asses as some do would be the most productive.” and I’m still laughing.
Linsey
December 3, 2008 at 12:57 am
Damn – I AM a soccer mom and he wasn’t even following me. What an ego blow. I’m going to follow. Will he follow me back?
Stay tuned…
Bill Gassett
December 18, 2008 at 11:26 am
The only thing I know is that I like Soccer Moms.