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# Over a quarter of a million social media gurus
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/08/guru-my-hairy-behind/
- Published: 2014-08-30T23:38:38.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:21:15.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: nonsense, Social Media, social media professionals

[Social media gurus are breeding like ~~rabbits~~ roaches](http://www.whatsnextblog.com/2014-twitter-bios-show-epic-growth-to-297897-of-self-proclaimed-social-media-gurus/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> The June 2014 What’s Next Blog social media guru Twitter Bio list (researched on FollowerWonk) has grown to epic proportions. The list now tops 297,897 – up from a mere 16,000 when we first started tracking them in 2009.

Well over a quarter of a million people are self-declaring themselves as social media experts on Twitter now. Pause. Consider that. *Despair for humanity*.

Here’s why you should immediately discount anyone who describes themselves in this way: *no-one is a social media expert*.

This is a new field, and a dynamic one. The services, approaches and tools are changing by the minute, and what you know now can be wrong in a month’s time. Plus: it’s a *social* field – and thus the answers tend to be different in every social group.

Look at it this way: social media is a communication tool – like the telephone. How many self-proclaimed “telephone gurus” are there? And how seriously would you take them?

\[via [Brent Simmons](http://inessential.com/2014/08/30/297%5F897%5Fsocial%5Fmedia%5Fgurus?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)\]