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By: Attracting Followers 101 | Twitterrati

Attracting Followers 101 | Twitterrati — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:55:25 +0000

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By: More Twitter Assistance « Advocate’s Studio

More Twitter Assistance « Advocate’s Studio — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:44:34 +0000

[...] do you follow? For some help on these questions, check out buckpost at Twitterati and the entry on How to Follow 101. This how-to advice depends on how you view your own twitter use and primarily is based on number [...]

By: markevans

markevans — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:05:14 +0000

dobesv,

That's a good idea. Watch this space!

Mark

By: dobesv

dobesv — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:14:41 +0000

Maybe we need another blog post "how to lead". I think by leading you will gain more followers and you won't have to follow so many people in order to do so.

By: markevans

markevans — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:38:15 +0000

Mich,

Thanks for the comment – all thoughts and insight appreciated.

Just a couple of counter points:

One, I love the fact more than 600 people follow me on Twitter as it, hopefully, says that I have something to offer.

Two, My own links that I do put on Twitter are mostly updates on new blog posts through Twitterfeed, which is a common tool. But most of the links I put on Twitter are interesting articles and Web sites that I come across.

Thanks for visiting Twitterrati. Come again and keep commenting!

By: markevans

markevans — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:07:01 +0000

Mike,
One thing to remember is can take time to find the right mix of followers but when you do, Twitter is that much more useful.

By: Ken Chandler

Ken Chandler — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:52:18 +0000

I have just shy of 400 that I follow.I plan to add many more.The beauty of Twitter is whether I choose to follow 1 or 1000 makes no difference.There is no penalty box if I do things a certain way or do not.My personal preference is to un-follow negative people.That being said I enjoy the endless stream of useful information,websites,reviews and everything else that makes Twitter what it is.I may not be able to catch everything but what I do see make it very much worth my time.

By: mikekmcclure

mikekmcclure — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:25:33 +0000

I've only been on Twitter for a few months, but I'm getting pretty hooked and find a lot of useful info. Plus, there are a few friends who tweet regularly and I enjoy knowing what's up with them. But, I've been trying to figure out the whole how many to follow thing and this is the first good answer I've seen. I only follow 33, but some are pretty tweet heavy, like @problogger. Don't know how anyone could follow thousands or even hundreds. Thanks for the insight.

By: BCK

BCK — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:22:08 +0000

I fall into the Happy Go Lucky category following 200 people/services at the moment. I recently went through my follows and stopped following users who either don’t interact well or simply give me no value in following them. Some of them were people I meant on other services and some were people I thought were interesting but I can only hear that you’ve just finished Ramen Noodles so many times.

By: ptamaro

ptamaro — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:51:16 +0000

Great points buckpost, and I digg the “persona like” descriptions… good points in each of the comments too.

For me, I mainly use twitter just for fun, I tried to get more into it and grow with it to get more use out of it and followers, and all those social things – but I’m realizing that keeping it fun is best for me. I get a lot of great URLs and tap into the tweet-buzz every day just to see what’s going on, but I don’t want to feel like I’m missing something and have it become a time-sink…