Comments on: All followers are equal but some are more equal than others (a follower strategy for Twitter)

By: Twitter: Most Unwanted

Twitter: Most Unwanted — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:35:26 +0000

[...] good!). I will give Twitter a chance. I do realise it is not for everybody, and some people just do not know how to best use new social media technology. I have no desire in reading if you are having coffee or doing your laundry or other menial chores [...]

By: lorcan

lorcan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:35:08 +0000

I agree with Jeremy – I read almost all the tweets of everyone I follow, otherwise I wouldn’t follow them! For me the beauty of Twitter, unlike social networks, is its asymmetric nature, but auto-follow kind of kills that. Lists are a one-sided solution and probably the way Twitter will go, but I think it loses value when you know that only a tiny fraction of your followers actually read your tweets and vice versa…

I actually follow, unfollow and re-follow people according to my changing interests and attention. @jonworth, I’ve followed and unfollowed you a couple of times already, hope you don’t mind!

By: Twitter: Most Unwanted « Prashanth Shanmugan

Twitter: Most Unwanted « Prashanth Shanmugan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:28:04 +0000

[...] will give Twitter a chance. I do realise it is not for everybody, and some people just do not know how to best use new social media technology. I have no desire in reading if you are having coffee or doing your laundry or other menial chores [...]

By: Jeremy Hargreaves

Jeremy Hargreaves — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:51:33 +0000

Sorry, I’m afraid I’m interested in following the people I want to follow, but that may not be everyone who follows me. If they’re someone I know or look interesting then I’ll follow them, but I don’t accept any implied reciprocity obligation at all. I follow almost as many people as follow me, and there’s probably quite a lot of overlap, but I don’t accept any implied obligation to follow them.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:23:18 +0000

Still! I remarked on that in a tweet to them, and they still did nothing about it…

By: Euonym

Euonym — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:25:56 +0000

Have you seen that the ECRG (new EP group) are following NO-ONE!

By: anham

anham — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:08:23 +0000

I must say I agree with – and practice – Euonym’s strategy towards Twitter. I take the time to review the feeds of those of choose to follow me. If they write in a language I understand, even occasionnally, and if the topics dealt with are of interest to me, then I will follow them back.

That being said, I may also weed out someone not because they don’t fit the above “profile”, but because their feed only carries information that I already receive through other Twitter users whom I already follow. In other words, in the echo chamber that Twitter is, some echo is just enough…

Danah Boyd had published an interesting post about Twitter vs. Facebook ( http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/10/25/some_thoughts_o_2.html ).
According to her (and I would agree), the former is akin to a social media feed which does not entail reciprocity, whereas the second one is akin to a social friend feed which entails reciprocity. With Twitter, it’s in mostly about who you are as a social persona, even a public persona. With Facebook, it is rather about the intimate you, the private persona and their close social surroundings. This explains differences in reciprocity…

By: Meilcour.fr » Twitter follower strategy : a few words

Meilcour.fr » Twitter follower strategy : a few words — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:10:13 +0000

[...] this week-end at the Personal Democracy Forum Europe, Jon Worth recommends a twitter follower strategy. In shorter : you should follow people who follow you. if someone is [...]