Mr Tweet Blog: Follow All You Want, But Would You Follow Yourself?
ssssssss
· 3 months ago
you know this aint useful kawasaki =(
Amen
· 3 months ago
Tweet Me Mr.Tweeeeeeets
Adam Daniel Mezei
· 5 months ago
"Fucking awesomesauce" is right! Fab post!
pate
· 5 months ago
I weigh recent tweets a lot more heavily than profiles ... am I alone in this?
Ericsj
· 5 months ago
I second pate,also, how can you have quality correspondents with hundreds?
isolabella
· 5 months ago
Would definitely follow myself. Tweet informative, educational, positive information I hope will be useful to many.
fjpoblam
· 5 months ago
I disagree with the blanket statement, "Everyone wants followers." I'm looking for *conversation*, not just followers for the sake of number of followers: quality, not quantity. I think Mr. Tweet would do well to promote this sort of thing, too!
Beth
· 5 months ago
Thank you for saying this!
louise91
· 5 months ago
Most definitely. I 'd like to connect to people with common ideas causes. Maybe some people in my geographical area.
gracecross
· 5 months ago
I agree. I screen my followers. If they have lots of people they follow but little or no content, I block them. If they just want to advertise adult content or get-rich-quick stuff, I block them. If they don't tweet in English, I run their page through a translation service. Again, if they meet the above, I block them. My twitter account is for business purposes; I'm trying to build a good rep. That's why I use my real name. So I only follow people whose profiles mention topics of serious interest to me and am careful who I accept as a follower. @GuyKawasaki recomments we follow everyone who follows us, out of courtesy. That's ok, in principle, but I'm not there yet. Another tweet recommended we drop our follows if we aren't followed back, or we would find ourselves hitting a follow/followers limit. Again ok, however, there are many that I am following where I don't expect or mind if they don't follow me in return. So I've started a daily routine where I review one or more pages of accounts I follow, specifically for those who have not followed me back, to ensure their content is worthy of continuing to follow. I'm starting with the oldest follows and working my way forward, thus giving the oldest ones a generous amount of time to decide to follow me back. I'm trying to tighten up the quality of those I follow, as well as those who follow me. This also serves targeting purposes. Once my new website is launched, I'd like to be able to tweet updates, and get the majority of my followers to hit my site when I do so. I'm not just trying to make some money through my website but to grassroots significant information towards disease management and treatments through diet, vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other supplements, and alternative medicine instead of prescriptions. It will also serve to relate my own own trials and errors in management of my own disorders, specifically Diabetes, Arthritis, and Fibromyalgia Pain Syndrome.
Christopher Stevenson
· 5 months ago
Hey Mr. Tweet: This is not very helpful. Looking at your own tweets is a bit like trying to edit your own term paper. How about some practical advice of what to look for in tweets. What's valuable and what's crap? For instance, I won't follow anyone whose sole purpose is to tweet links to their web site or blog.
QT
· 5 months ago
AGREE TOTALLY
Beth
· 5 months ago
The biggest issue with Twitter- it's becoming a huge "Six Degrees of Separation," experiment. The new users seem to migrate to the self-proclaimed power Tweeters-promising success,money making etc. Why do people want 10,000+ followers? They obviously can't personally engage with everyone. Twitter was once a service bloggers used to share ideas- it's now one, really long infomercial. Am I followable? Absolutely. My profile is a small glimpse as to who I am-unique. It's a shame Twitter has become a popularity contest- I have just as much to offer as the next, only I don't spam and I respond to my followers, unlike a majority who signed up because it was the "in" thing to do.
Kelly Salcedo
· 5 months ago
Well said!
TJAbif
· 5 months ago
Goodstuff, good read! :0) [Note to self whilst scratching head: Must sort profile out! ]
eileensideways
· 5 months ago
i follow people who are interested in the same things i am interested in and hope they follow me for the same reason. i don't want followers to follow me just to be able to boast that they have more followers than i.
Tim Hall (Kalyr)
· 5 months ago
I value two-way conversations in Twitter, and think quality is more important than quantity when it comes to followers. So I won't follow someone who never @replies unless I already know that person from another forum.
And I definitely won't follow back somebody who's only followed me because he uses a keyword-search auto-follower bot. He's more likely to get blocked, or even reported to @spam.
Robert Ballantyne
· 5 months ago
I almost never follow someone based on their bio. It is their web site, or preferably their blog that will convince me that they are worth a follow. And their list of current tweets. I'm looking for relevant content. Relevant to my business, community and/or lifestyle. In other words, I follow people who demonstrate that they write interesting content. The content can be interesting original material or an aggregation of other sources. Usually it is the tweeter's slant on the world that causes me to follow.
Since I work at my computer, and have TweetDeck scrolling down the left side of my screen, I really want to read those I follow... so I don't want to follow too many people.
What I've found is that people who twitter don't twitter at a constant rate. It waxes and wanes. Usually it wanes. That means that when I choose to follow, those people are probably twittering furiously. Weeks, or months later, many will slow their production of tweets. What this means to me is that as the former prolific twitterers languish, I can increase the number of folks I follow.
No, I don't want a particularly large following. I want to be part of a community. I'd like to come to know at least 40% of those who follow me (and a higher percentage of those I follow). Somewhere between 150 and 300 people ceases to be a community and is just a crowd.
nataliav
· 5 months ago
I totally agree, I want to know the people I'm following, I try to read their blogs, or websites and talk to them when I get a chance, I don't want a big number of people, around 300 is the limit for me.
140 character bio is short, and usually stuffed with keywords, but some people manage to be interesting.
rmaxwell142
· 5 months ago
I don't want people to follow me just for the sake of following but those who are actually interested in my Tweets and want to interact with me. Twitter has become a huge popularity contest and not a genuine community in many ways.
At the same time, I usually don't follow those who, for example, have 5,000 followers but only follow about 100 people. It's obvious they are only on Twitter to get followers and not have real connections with others.
@Balaji: I'm suspicious of bots - some statistical analysis might identify people who *might* be worth following, but it really needs a human being to make the final decision.
And bots tend to be overused by the bad guys who's scattershot approach doesn't take account of context, and don't care how many people they manage to piss off - you mention the word "franchise" in connection with a link to a news item about British railway companies and you immediately get a swarm of followers peddling MLM crap.
Nati
· 5 months ago
I'm all followable LMAO
Larry Piper
· 5 months ago
Do I give a rat's ass if I'm followed by people I don't know? I think not.
Michael Fidler
· 5 months ago
Good question and I could use some honest advice from anyone who reads this. I've thought many times about changing my bio. It currently features a quote, which says a lot about me, but could also be misinterpreted. Because of this, I list none of my interests, which other like minded people could find me by. My link goes to my friendfeed stream, and it definitely says something about me. I use it on all my profiles for just that reason. I can't think of a better way to introduce myself than to share an aggregate of all my activities online. Because of this, I think it should stay, but the quote is open for debate. Any thoughts on this would be helpful. I can be found at http://twitter.com/michaelfidler
Yancey
· 5 months ago
I'm fairly new to Twitter and tried to make myself followable. I would follow myself, on a good day. Would you? @YanceyG Tell me why or why not? http://twitter.com/YanceyG
Milton Ramirez
· 5 months ago
When I catch an interesting tweet what I do is check the profile and see if the person falls into our radar of interests. If so, we go down the first page to find at least one relevant tweet. This is what make us take a step forward.
Great post and a challenge question Corvida!
SLOMAR
· 5 months ago
i'd follow myself, I'm new to this twitter thing and it's hard to twitter with no followers. I feel like i'm tweeting to myself everytime i get on. Which is great sometimes but sometimes i want to say tweet things but then i'm like for what i'm going to be the only one reading this. Thanks for the help tho def going to put more substance in my tweets from now on.
Abbe Buck
· 5 months ago
Thank you, Mr. Tweet. It is my job to add a bit of news to that that needs to STAND OUT and stand up! I work with those who need to be noticed. Abbe Buck
KimSanty
· 5 months ago
Thanks Mr. Tweet. Would love to hear your thoughts about social etiquette on the Twitterverse. :)
Smithik
· 4 months ago
Great post! thank you!
Susan Field
· 3 months ago
I'm definitely followable, but not nearly as followable as Grin_n_Bear_it would be. HINTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
brianweiss
· 3 months ago
Fuck, now I'm blushing...I"m a "WRITER" as in for currency of the realm, so I've got this pain in the ass credo that I should be the dream and memorialize the inspiritation that OTHERS have let me have, in my all too dismal attempt to use my first language, and not charge me, for the priviledege. A few more years and I'll be a cunning...linguist, LOL. Memorializing me would cost somewhere down the line. And I don't like invoices...(little joke; getit...inner voices) Belief is a hard formula...However we're all only as good as our best day. I just call em intensitys & repetitions using the whole celestial mess! I /We only can communicate an make our dreams actuated for experiencing in three ways .Speaking, Body Language, and writing or drawing. Other than that , we're trapped. So I believe communication, & focused,... at that is the only to experience our idea of the "E" ride here. No matter what it is we have to see, "then own it". then laugh or cry about it , and all in a blink of celestial machinery. And I'm sloe on the uptake, much to my chaGRIN. Best, Brian
Name
· 3 months ago
This is a really interesting issue: but I agree with some of the comments where they ask for guidance on what makes you followable.
check us out and let me know if you think we are @NCVOForesight
lyndonsullivan
· 3 months ago
I think its what you tweet, & how diverse your tweets can be that is important,to an extent profiles can be miss leading in as much as it is a small measure of the users potential in acquiring followers,any body can get followers through various tools available,but to get them just by tweeting is surely greater satisfaction to the user,after all that's whats twitters all about.Yours Lyndon Sullivan, @lindano on Twitter.
WeaponII
· 3 months ago
Do followers really matter these days? I would think it's impossible to actually communicate if you're in excess of 1,000 users, even if you made Twitter a full-time job.
These days you could easily obtain that many followers by just looking for company sponsored handles. Don't expect much communication outside of their typical postings.
simonlang
· 2 months ago
As a longtime writer, I thought it might be fun to use my short stories and even my five published science-fiction books (yes, I do have the rights back), and post them one at a time, bit by bit, on Twitter, because people seem to love stories.
Does anyone think that would be a good idea?
I'd love to have everyone's feedback, and I thank you in advance.
wholesale jewelry
· 1 month ago
In other words, I follow people who demonstrate that they write interesting content.
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And I definitely won't follow back somebody who's only followed me because he uses a keyword-search auto-follower bot. He's more likely to get blocked, or even reported to @spam.
Since I work at my computer, and have TweetDeck scrolling down the left side of my screen, I really want to read those I follow... so I don't want to follow too many people.
What I've found is that people who twitter don't twitter at a constant rate. It waxes and wanes. Usually it wanes. That means that when I choose to follow, those people are probably twittering furiously. Weeks, or months later, many will slow their production of tweets. What this means to me is that as the former prolific twitterers languish, I can increase the number of folks I follow.
No, I don't want a particularly large following. I want to be part of a community. I'd like to come to know at least 40% of those who follow me (and a higher percentage of those I follow). Somewhere between 150 and 300 people ceases to be a community and is just a crowd.
140 character bio is short, and usually stuffed with keywords, but some people manage to be interesting.
At the same time, I usually don't follow those who, for example, have 5,000 followers but only follow about 100 people. It's obvious they are only on Twitter to get followers and not have real connections with others.
I'm suspicious of bots - some statistical analysis might identify people who *might* be worth following, but it really needs a human being to make the final decision.
And bots tend to be overused by the bad guys who's scattershot approach doesn't take account of context, and don't care how many people they manage to piss off - you mention the word "franchise" in connection with a link to a news item about British railway companies and you immediately get a swarm of followers peddling MLM crap.
http://twitter.com/YanceyG
Great post and a challenge question Corvida!
check us out and let me know if you think we are @NCVOForesight
These days you could easily obtain that many followers by just looking for company sponsored handles. Don't expect much communication outside of their typical postings.
Does anyone think that would be a good idea?
I'd love to have everyone's feedback, and I thank you in advance.