Wanna get multiple followers and reap huge rewards from Twitter?

Then use Twitter. (@sidfilmz )

After one casual Fri. night at the bars, I skated home to rip a bowl and hop on the web for a quick session of YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, and porn.  Well, this particular evening turned out different than others, because I never got to the porn.  This time, I went to Twitter first, and by this point, I'd been Tweeting for about 2-3 months, off & on.  I'd amassed a good 50+ followers (enough to start making some scrilla $$ off Twitter Ads, baby!), but not anything to really brag about yet.  And I my main goal wasn't to plug my Twitter feed full of ads, as opposed to many of those marketing shemps out there. I wanted to keep my incoming feed as well as my outgoing feed clean and concise.

I especially didn't want to turn people off that wanted to follow my wit and wisdoms and occasional web tricks and/or quests for help by filling my own twitter feed w/ ads.  I only planned on advertising w/ links to stuff I'd actually want to check out for myself.  Needless to say, I posted few ad links, and was still conscious of the fact that the more followers I had, the higher was the likelihood that I'd actually get enough clicks on some of these ads to make some straight up mad scrilla $$. 

This is all it takes, gentlemen.

This is a sample of the reply Sid felt like leaving on a particular article about Drupal eliminating the middleman.

I hate to say it, but you erred in the very beginning when you said that Amazon and online Photo Processing eliminated the middleman. Actually, they created an extra middleman. Amazon has no inventory, they link to bookstores and warehouses who are still very much in the chain, and perform as a mediary between customers, bookstores, and inventory houses.

Online Photo Processing has gone in similar directions as Amazon, introducing an extra player to connect more customers with the mom/pop photo store that actually still does the developing.

Not to gripe, but this is one of the most common "mis-speaks" about the role of the internet in the logistics channel of commerce.

The Internet has been touted for it's ability to "eliminate the middleman," and it often can do just that. Too often this damn Amazon example pops up, though, and it just aint' right. With direct sales, a manufacturer can eliminate their middleman, being a wholesaler or distributor, and sell directly to end customers through the channel of the Internet.  However, a manufacturer may lose relationships with retailers by doing this, and therefore lose sales overall. Eliminating the middleman isn't the case for every website, nor every business that implements an online strategy, but the sake of this article is not to argue one way or the other about that. There are as many cases of the Internet creating additional middlemen, as there are of removing middlemen. 

This article is just a reaction to author Buyteart's theory of the dwindling role of the webmaster. Now it's not untold that as technology increases in some industries, the need for human resources can shrink, but as the role of technology applies to the Internet, it is obvious that the economy of Internet driven jobs and Internet infrastructure jobs is still rapidly growing. While the author of the Internet/Middleman article seems to think that society is already at a point where the technology is replacing webmaster roles and web developer roles, I think he is either being misleading, or generalizing on the whole of the Internet that which may really only apply to his unique platform goals, as the author is the creator of Drupal .