Over six days and many more hours per day than ever intended, +Keith Cramer and +Scott Cramer combed through hundreds of G+ user profiles and thousands of posts.
The intent?
To put together a circle of 100 frequently posting interactive interesting eclectic awesome users.
The twist?
We're brothers. Of course it became a contest. 50 picks each, recording the number of followers for each user at the time they were selected. Today we share our circles of 50. Friday (somewhere around midnight EST) we will revisit every profile and record the number of followers again for each user. The team with the greatest increase in overall number of followers wins!
The punishment?
Lunch was lame. We'll still do lunch. What has been discussed in hushed tones around the home and office has been dubbed, "THE DEATH OF A THOUSAND CONDIMENTS!!!" << http://goo.gl/ruosV >> Something so horrific that it deserves it's own post! << http://goo.gl/K93J3 >>
WHAT TO DO!
To my team: We hope that you will take a look at your team's shared circle. If you find it worthy, please share it on your stream and promote it. Continue to be your awesome selves and, hopefully, continue growing and being circled by your G+ peers. Some of you are already well on your way to a large circle of followers. Some of you are new and maybe just need a little visibility.
To public: If you like the circle, feel free to add! Brother is posting his team's circle on his stream also at this very moment. At the end of the week, we'll post the combined circle.
Next?
After Friday we will create one shared circle with all of you in it! If you have not already done so, we hope that you will all add each other and promote each other to your streams. We will be doing the same for all of you. We will also post whatever stats we have on this social experiement and ideas we have for doing more in the future. Particularly we want to concentrate on people who are not as active but are still valued G+ users who might just need a little help to get to the next level. Any and all ideas or commentary welcome!
Original context for all of this here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102026767069561610206/posts/3GoSB8NKKmD
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I'm in Keith's shared circle, so naturally I hope he wins.
Done, shared and THANK YOU. 🙂
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Go Team Scott!
+Scott Cramer, +Keith Cramer – thanks for your effort on this. I think it's a brilliant idea. You guys are awesome!
When I get home I will check the circles out.
<—- is in both's circle…but not the shared ones. I'm just gonna go pout in that corner over there. 🙁
Team Scott ftw! I was surprised when I added this circle and found that 45 of them were new to me!
Wow, thank you for having me in, and thank you very much for sharing it +Scott Cramer !
I am sure that there's lot of people in here that I am going to like.
Of course, out of enlightened self-interest I had to add Keith's circle too, but I won't share it… 😀
You Da Man +Scott Cramer Thank you!!
GO TEAM SCOTT!
+Damian Sanchez I just added you b/c it feels good to be loved! smiles! 🙂
+Scott Cramer +Keith Cramer
I just wanted to say how amazing your idea is, and how fun it is. This is exactly why I like G+, every day is a big amazing surprise.
Total love to you all G+er's.
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I'll be following your document very closely, Go Team SCOTT!
Awesome idea. I'm sharing this.
wow thank you for including me +Scott Cramer ! 🙂
+Damian Sanchez At the end of the week when we share the combined circle… be assured that more awesome will be added 🙂 +Keith Cramer tag
A modern version of Cramer vs Cramer 🙂 Good idea +Scott Cramer
+Miguel Rodriguez Keith and I were talking about doing something like this and then he came up with the "challenge" concept. 🙂
Shared! Good Luck +Scott Cramer! A fun way to ge the word out about people you enjoy interacting with!
Go team Keith. 🙂
No way +Keith Cramer 😀
good job Scott. i guess that's "the circle of life".
Hey, if ya'll are getting bored over here, why don't you stop over here: https://plus.google.com/102026767069561610206/posts/29jntQGUEAY and share my cirlce.
moohahahaha. 🙂
+Keith Cramer YOu!!! lol.
This is really fun 😀 Hope more people will join the party and will start commenting here and on your post also 😀
Interesting.
Hey, there's a good link +Keith Cramer posted above at the home of second place!
We shall see brother… we shall see!
Hope you like condiments brother.
Shared. And thank you both, I think it's a really cool thing you're doing here!
+Meirav Berale Thanks Meirav!
+Scott Cramer I see what you guys have been talking about on the G+ Notification stuff. I just got this post in my notification window. Geez..wonder how many more I am missing.
+Scott Cramer +Keith Cramer You two guys are just awesome ?
Totally agree +Michele vonHild
agreed
Cramer vs Cramer rocks, brilliant concept.
lol cool idea!
Sharing – Go #TeamScott !
+Scott Cramer +Keith Cramer I feel so grateful for being part of this social experiment. It is fun to watch how each of us markets the Circle…and how the numbers keep on climbing…quickly. This is way too entertaining. You two have truly personified what social networking should be. Thanks!!!!!
Thanks everyone for the kind words. We are having a blast. +Celestina Sierra it is very interesting to see how everyone is interacting.
+Sam Lam Hey, I didn't know #teamscott had his own hash tag! I have to get me one of those!
hmmm… Go #TeamKeith
+Sang Lam Nice hash tag 😉
To all reading… thank you very much! I hope other people outside of our experiment discover all of you and find out why they should be following and interacting with you! I'm so far behind on reading comments tonight and I LOVE IT. You're all great! Still, too bad #TeamKeith will be watching him covered in condiments! 😉
At least you used my new hashtag!
Thank you +Scott Cramer
+Werner Töniste Most welcome. Hope to interact with you more as time goes on!
Just a good clean game is all we ask…have a blast of a week Scott.
Well, I've just finished going through them, and at this end it's +Scott Cramer 24, +Keith Cramer 18. Thanks guys – a lot of great adds!