Guy and the Kid
As I scanned twitter tonight, I watched as Guy Kawasaki aka. @guykawasaki, the man behind Alltop & Truemors, blew off a request for a website review.
Typical, right?
Who can blame the man, he probably gets spammed with these type of requests all the time. But, I followed this request by @ashvala, who turned out to be a 13 year old, grade 9 student from Bangalore. His site looks sharp and is well designed.
After reading Ashvala’s Bio, I decided to use twitter persuasion to convince Guy Kawasaki to give it a glance. Within a minute he did and tweeted back feedback to the young “techie who loves gadgets and enjoys reviewing them.”
In the end Ashvala received a little feedback & a pat on the back from one of the biggest names on the web. Happy ending to a short story.
This is another demonstration of the power of twitter to connect people. On twitter people become a little more equal. Kudos to Guy for stepping up.
Very nice encapsulation of events! A link to @ashvala’s original request, if it is available, it would bring real authenticity to this post.
Thanks Ginger. I wanted to link the original request for feedback but after the initial rejection, @ashvala deleted that tweet. I am thinking that he did so because he had his email address included for feedback. Anyway it is what it is.
Hey Guys!
Thanks for viewing my Home page! the Background is from iSTOCK photo!
But I have clearly NO idea what happened to the Tweet… But yes I had asked Guy how the webpage was! Happy ending afterall!
Cool story Kyle. Good job on steppin’ up yourself with the twitter persuasion.