Comments on: Twitter – to follow or not to follow?

By: x10

x10 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:10:45 +0000

Well to be honest, I writing a follow-up post this past week about switching off SocialToo and using Twitter for real. Having that many people to follow has made my life incredibly "spammy" and artificial.

I think you're on the right track.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:33:46 +0000

I purposely restrict the number of people I follow so I can actually see what my closer online friends are saying. If I went too far above 100 people followed, tweets would just get drowned out.

If it works for you and Guy, though, more power to you. My preference is to only follow those you're interested in, and not try to please the masses with a "follow me I'll follow you back" approach.

By: LittleCoding

LittleCoding — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:30:45 +0000

Given I have found a number of “followers” to be nothing more then fronts for ad sites, I do find myself spending a good amount of time “grooming” both my followers and following lists to remove these users.

So why would I bother with this and not just go for the big numbers? Simple I use my Twitter more as a streamlined RSS feed and then for its “water cooler” conversations. The 140 character limit really helps me stay up to date with my feeds without taking so much time out of my already full day.

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By: Bradjward

Bradjward — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:29:25 +0000

Just found you because you said higher ed social media. :) Looking forward to the conversation!

By: x10

x10 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:43:59 +0000

@TheWench I hope you can dig deeper. By no means am I a twitter expert, but since I’ve posted, I’ve had 32 new followers in 4 days. I think I’d be lost without Tweetdeck, it really simplifies the whole conversation if you have a lot of followers.

A bonus to this is I’ve connected with more people that are great resources to me – I hope you find the same. Let me know how it goes!

PS. I’m following you now.

By: TheWench

TheWench — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:25:19 +0000

Wow, I haven’t been following anyone unless I know them. I was always afraid I’d just end up with so many updates to scroll through that I wouldn’t bother reading any of them. I’ll have to read more and dig deeper into the Twitter world. Thanks for the link. :)

By: x10

x10 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:47:39 +0000

Ooh I like that quote. I find though, even though I am following way more, I’ve met a lot more interesting people.

You can always un-follow the “hot air”. :)

By: Nathan Youngman

Nathan Youngman — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:51:56 +0000

Hm, I certainly don’t follow, not everyone that decides to follow me on twitter.

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention – Herbert Simon, 1971

I guess you can always unfollow the extremely chatty, and not particularly useful ones though.

Tweetdeck, hey?

By: Brian R. Robinson

Brian R. Robinson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:18:31 +0000

Hey there!

Yeah, I follow many people as well, in the interest of generating good discussions, and it has worked! Just tonight I posted that I was wondering about the ‘semantic web’ and three users immediately engaged in a great conversations with me about it. It was awesome!

By the way, thanks for weighing in over on my blog regarding “Twitter Spam”: http://robinsontechnology.com/blog/2008/12/07/twitter-spam-or-welcome-innovation/ . I’m learning a lot from the conversation!