Comments on: Twitter Frustrations

By: Interactive Cinema for Volvo

Interactive Cinema for Volvo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:48:16 +0000

[...] published my filter method for Twitter the other day, which came out of my frustrations with the many new followers I was getting. It does [...]

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:11:29 +0000

I think I only follow about 2 ‘famous Twitters’ who I’ve never met. The rest I’ve met, or know, at various conferences and events. But why don’t you follow people that are referred to? I’ve found that a way to find friends on the system.

From what I’ve seen, your use is the normal use, it’s the 20% who use it with mass followers/followees.

By: Dani in NC

Dani in NC — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:59:46 +0000

I follow a similar set of rules myself. One difference is that I don’t follow people that others refer to in their messages. Another thing is that I have no desire to follow the famous Twitterers like Leo Laporte or Wil Wheaton. I use ChaCha to just to chat back and forth with friends. It is no fun for me to follow someone who is so popular that they won’t have time to respond to me.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:43:04 +0000

I’ve been following pretty much the same set of conditions. I’m considering doing some strategic unfollowing, too.

Twitter is clearly a tool with an upper limit of useful people to follow. I have just too many at the moment to comfortably keep on top of the people I’m really interested in.

By: Mind Gravy » Blog Archive » links for 2008-04-08

Mind Gravy » Blog Archive » links for 2008-04-08 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:38:18 +0000

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By: Rhonda Tipton

Rhonda Tipton — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:20:57 +0000

Great article. I agree. I am fairly new to Twitter (Jan 08), but I use it to connect with people I know, people I have something in common with or people I think I can learn from. I have received a couple of followers that are following 2000+ and have 26 followers. I do not follow those back.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:06:42 +0000

that’s why I review regularly and do pruning. I have to, otherwise, as you say, it loses all value. One other thing I should have said is about the SMS aspect. When I’m out and about in London, I have about 20 people I follow via SMS; I actually changed to a different set for SXSW but back to my London set now.

By: Gia

Gia — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:03:23 +0000

That all sounds like good Twittering advice.

One thing I’d add to my list: if your Tweets annoy me, I will unfollow you. 2008 is my year to stop being so damned ‘accepting’ of bad behaviour online. Twitter is no exception.

Twitter becomes useless to me if I follow too many people. I, too, regularly go through my list and unfollow certain people – just because we were at the same conference or whatever, doesn’t mean that we share loads in common…