Comments on: Twitter: I don’t care

By: Anjali

Anjali — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:11:59 +0000

Really good post Rachel. There are no rules really. That’s the truth and anyone who says otherwise is a pompous fool!!!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:37:57 +0000

Thank you all for the comments, really appreciate them. It’s an interesting phenomenon, this whole Twitter thing, the fact that it can create such passion on people, me included. In a way, the rant about how I don’t care how others use it is just as polarising as a rant by someone who really does care. I can see the irony. I also see the irony that the reason most of the comments are is because I used Twitter to tell people about the post.

A few comments back

@Marie F “Personally it did take me a little bit of time to get used to not being followed back by certain people I followed- but I’m fine with this now.” To be honest, I do get a twinge of ‘why don’t they follow me’, I think it’s pretty much a basic human nature, but I get over it quickly!

@almost witty. I get this as well, as I’m have an early id number so high on many lists. I tend to ignore them.

@Charles. agree about the followers. It’s the same model about blogs and traffic, but here you – and everyone else – can see actual numbers which brings out the game/competitive element.

@Olaf Legend Keep going with Twitter. I always advise people to start slow, follow a few they know (and now you can add a few celebrities as well) and just play with the service. Don;t dive in a follow loads!

By: Olaf Legend

Olaf Legend — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:31:06 +0000

This is most informing. I know not much about Twitter so I try to use it for the blogging aspect. Much of what you say is true and interest. I have only been using the service for less than a week and was unsure of how it work. I did see someone on here complaining that he keeps loosing follwers. So what? It does not matter.

Great post.

By: scorpusmaximus

scorpusmaximus — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:25:32 +0000

OYG! It was great to read this! This is how I use Twitter. I am not crazy. I do not have brain cancer. Thank you for proving my doctors wrong! lol

And thanks for the RT @giagia!

-scorpus

By: almost witty

almost witty — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:19:59 +0000

Hear hear Rachel. Although isn’t all this relatively self-evident? I don’t particularly get annoyed by people who follow me then de-follow me a week later since it’s usually obvious that they’re literally trawling for followers. (My username is unfortunately near the top of the alphabet)

By: Marie F

Marie F — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:15:58 +0000

I agree about auto DMs and ‘thank you for the follow’ tweets.

Personally it did take me a little bit of time to get used to not being followed back by certain people I followed- but I’m fine with this now. Peoples feeds are theirs to choose and if I really want to talk to them I can always send an @. Which is why it now really annoys me when I get followed by someone and loose them a week later seemingly as I chose not reciprocate. Now I don’t mind loosing their follow- but it does make me think that they only pick up friends to bulk up their following list which is egotistical and negates so many of the ways twitter can be useful and interesting.

By: Gordon Rae

Gordon Rae — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:15:48 +0000

The way jugglers describe what they’re doing doesn’t help other people learn it. They don’t focus on the balls, they don’t focus on their movements. They unfocus. A learned state of consciousness. (I stole this quote from Stowe Boyd) http://bit.ly/3I8V0C

By: Gia

Gia — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:07:50 +0000

Rachel, this is BRILLIANT. I have been *massively* annoyed by people who either tell me how I or others should be using Twitter or by people who have been miffed because I don’t follow them back! I’ve also got annoyed by people complaining about certain ‘celebs’ joining Twitter. “Now that so-and-so has joined, I don’t think Twitter is the kind of place I want to be.” Er… just don’t follow those celebrities. And if you’re terribly annoyed by people you follow who choose to @ those celebs, then unfollow those people!

There’s no compulsion in Twitter. The brilliance of it is that anyone can make it what they want it to be…

Again, this is brilliant. x

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:58:42 +0000

“don’t expect them to tally” Neat summary.

By: Rebecca Caroe

Rebecca Caroe — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:53:35 +0000

Having agreed with much of what you say… BUT had a great ‘thank you’ experience today from the eConsultancy team. I commented following their link post this morning but the comments engine wouldn’t accept my post. So I told them about it [have a sneaking suspicion that I did this 2 weeks ago too] and they tweeted back that they were working on it and thanked me for pointing it out.
I copied and saved my comment on notepad.
Later this afternoon they DM me to say it’s fixed. I go back to the site and find they ahve already posted up my comment (liked that).
And then back on Twitter the PR lady, customer service geek and the MD all separately Tweet a thank you to me, publicly.
Overkill?
I’m not even a customer!!!