Tony Schiffbauer – The Sexiest Man in Hollywood?

Well it is true that Tony Schiffbauer is THE sexiest man in Hollywood!  Why is that? Well, it is obvious that since he is the sexiest man in Pittsburgh, the Sexiest man in New York, it is by default that he is the sexiest man in Hollywood by simply flying over the place.

Tony has found that being the sexiest man in Hollywood does come with some perks…still, not sure what they are but they do exist.

Rock on Tony Rocks…Hollywood can’t get enough of you.

Mass Unfollow on Twitter

Having a ton of followers on Twitter is great, but sometimes you just want to unfollow those who don’t follow you.  This is easier said than done when you only have about 100 or so followers, but when You hit over 1000+ followers, it makes it very difficult to unfollow all of those jerks.

I’ve found a great site that mass unfollows users for you automatically.  All you have to do is enter your Twitter name and password and then select go.

You have the choice to:

• Unfollow all who do not follow you back
• Unfollow all
• Follow all who follow you

This is a great free service for Twitter accounts of no more than 1800 followers.  The site is called Huitter and their tool is called Mutuality.

Check it out and mass unfollow those jerks today!

How to increase the number of social followers

Many people ask me, Tony, how the heck to I increase my number of followers and fans on Twitter or Facebook?  I tell them it is simple, start passing out a few bucks here and there and soon you will be on your path to enlightenment.

Seriously, you don’t need to spend any money to get more followers or fans on Twitter of Facebook.  What you can do is try to remember that your social media outlets are there to have others recommend you to others and that is really how you increase your base. 

There are a few things you can do such as post your Twitter, Facebook and YouTube links on your company’s website and then HOPE they will follow you, OR you can take the approach Skittles did and randomly redirect their company website to their social websites.  This is a great technique that can increase the awareness of your social media initiatives.  This is a pretty slick idea that I’m willing to try out.  Don’t be annoyed if you expect to see the awesome Tony Rocks homepage, but then get redirected to my Twitter page :)

Viral Facebook Applications

If have not already created a Facebook applications, then you are seriously missing out.  The Facebook application framework (APIs available for .NET and PHP) is so forgiving that creating a viral Facebook application can be done in minutes.

Creating the app is one thing, but creating a viral application is the primary purposes of spending any time on creating one.  Brady Communications took the simple, yet effective concept of the snowball application and applied it to paintball!

With the snowball application, you can throw virtual snowballs at your friends.  Sounds silly, right?  It is! But it is brilliant and the app spread virally like nobody could have ever imagined!

Brady Communications applied the same viral concepts of the snowball applications and applied it to the sport of Paint Ball!  So rather than throwing snowballs, you can shoot paint balls at your friends.  What makes the Brady viral Facebook application cooler than the snowball application is that your screen gets plastered with paintball splats.   Pretty cool in my book.

Upon the launch of the paintball viral Facebook application it gained 1000+ user the first weekend alone (when web traffic is typically slower).  The viral application helped doubled the client’s Facebook fan base.

Abusing the New DiggBar

If you frequent Digg.com, you will soon notice that they’ve recently implemented a stupid tool bar, which essentially is a URL shortner (is it going to replace tinyurl?).  What is flawed about it, and thanks to Michael Gray for the tip, is that it can easily be abused!

The tool actually frames your website with the DiggBar at the top and a screen shot of yours at the bottom.  This apparently was done to “artificially inflate” user metrics. I have no idea why they would do that.  I mean come one, Digg is such an open minded place, why would they want to artificially inflate things? yeah right…

By framing everyone elses website you never leave digg, so the length of their user visits goes up, and it looks like their site is improving, and they con more clueless VC’s that Digg is actually a valuable website, they want to keep wasting money investing in.

Pretty interesting concept…it just goes to show you that social media is now officially turning back into the hands of the big corporate pocketbook. (Similar to when e-commerce was kick-started in the late 90s).

You can read more on how to abuse the system here.  Too much fun stuff to post, and I am not going to reveal secrets ;)  Have fun abusing Digg. 

Now, Brian Cuban? Where are you man…here is our chance at revolution…again :)