Comments on: Are Social Media Editors People Too? http://observer.com/2012/02/are-social-media-editors-people-too/ People and Trends Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:06:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Seamus Condron http://observer.com/2012/02/are-social-media-editors-people-too/#comment-13586 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:37:00 +0000 http://www.observer.com/?p=217863#comment-13586 I can also attest that I got very little respect for what I was doing as a Community Manager/Social Media Editor. In mid 2008 I became the voice of Mediabistro on Twitter, and in a little over a year I had gotten followers from zero to 60,000. In that time, nobody within the company (save for a few) seemed to care. Social media was looked upon as the weird girl who sat in your homeroom that nobody understood and smelled funny. My boss was the worst of all. “I don’t get it” he repeated rather frequently. Well, while he wasn’t getting it, I was curating my ass off and, at least from the perception on Twitter, was bringing the company out of digital denial. What was most frustrating was that most of the “editorial” roles were the most  ignorant of the sea change. The only time the company interjected an opinion was when they said I couldn’t give myself attribution as the editor of the feed in the profile. I tried not to care about that, but it still bothers me today. 

Twitter monkey indeed. Although I probably prefer that to a fucking “guru.” 

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