I still don’t quite get Twitter, you know. The one most important thing I know  is that Twitter drives traffic. Everybody needs traffic. Traffic makes money. Most of us wants to be rich, or at least a little richer. All things added, I enrolled for the event.

The seminar was approx. $45 (don’t quite remember now). Reasonable price for a three hour event.  One is certain – this was the worst spent $45 in a long time. Unbelievable that people can deliver such low quality knowledge and still earn money from it.

The main speaker was Wayne Mansfield. According to some publications, he is a social media guru. Some call him a pioneer in internet marketing. For me, he is yet another guy who wants to earn money online by spamming everyone around.  I just tried to find some more information on him online and here is what Wikipedia says about him:

Wayne Mansfield, of Perth in Western Australia, was the head of direct marketing business T3 Direct Marketing, operating under a series of two-dollar companies, and in 2005 became the first Australian to be prosecuted for email spamming.

Probably I should have read it before I signed in, but I got all excited when I had read the information on the seminar in an email I received at work. It said that Wayne Mansfield is acknowledged as 4th most connected and active user of Twitter (number 1 is supposedly Fox News). He also has a network of more than 23 million people across Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.  Sounds great, right?

Well, it all looks differently when you take into account the number of people Wayne follows on Twitter – 74,863 (as at today). 73,315 follows him. Just a glance at this numbers tells you what simple technique Wayne incorporated to get these results. Each day, he follows hundreds of people potentially interested in his products and services . Some of them follow him back as a courtesy call. He ‘unfollows’ all the rest. Easy?

His first sentence during the event was something along these lines: “The training is scheduled to finish at 10pm, but I am planning to finish it at 9pm. I have a plane to catch at 4.30 am.”  Correct me if I am wrong, but if you pay for a three hour training, you expect a three hour training. Although I decided to leave during a coffee break at 7.30pm. Could not stand this crap any longer.

You will decide on your own whether this is something you would like to do. For me Wayne Manfield is yet another guy who makes using Twitter difficult for most of us by spamming us with useless comments.