Comments on: Twitter Following Habits

By: WTL

WTL — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:34:13 +0000

My usual policy for Twitter follows is if they follow me, I’ll look over their last couple of pages of tweets and if I think they’re worth following I will.

Nice and easy.

By: Split your Twitter friends into Groups with TweetDeck

Split your Twitter friends into Groups with TweetDeck — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:05:18 +0000

[...] wrote a post about Twitter Following Habits on Xfep yesterday and spoke about Michael Arrington’s recent post about Twitter needing a [...]

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:00:06 +0000

I don’t understand reciprocal following or the need for a fake follow. Maybe I’m just too low profile, but is it really that hard to follow only those you want to follow and say no to the rest? My spare time is precious and I don’t understand how guilt or fear of upsetting people you don’t even know is supposed to override my desire to spend my free time following people I actually want to follow.

Having said that, I think there’s a threshold of probably between 100-500 where you can follow interesting people and people you know and still have a pretty good idea of what’s going on in the lives of those people. More than that and I suspect it’s just a lot of noise with the occasional piece of serendipity. Your mileage may vary of course

By: Finally, my first guest post

Finally, my first guest post — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:27:27 +0000

[...] is why I’m happy I finally wrote my first guest post today. I wrote the post, entitled ‘Twitter Following Habits‘ at David Peralty’s great web development blog XFEP (Extra For Every Publisher). David [...]

By: Kevin Muldoon

Kevin Muldoon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:42:37 +0000

Tweetdeck does look good. I’ve just installed it and it looks to solve many of the problems which I talked about . By the sound of it Twitter will be adding something similar to the main Twitter website. It will be interesting to see what they do in the next month or so.

By: Joe Cavell

Joe Cavell — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:38:16 +0000

Interesting delima! I truly hope we will not be using Twitter for spaming.Very little can replace a real education on internet marketing.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:11:03 +0000

My Fav artist is airbase,so i follow him to knw abt his gigs,releases etc

besides that i follow paul stamatiou & you for unique blogging style..

By: Rebecca Atkinson (Muller)

Rebecca Atkinson (Muller) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:58:58 +0000

This is one of the reasons I like Tweetdeck. I can group my followers into buckets and follow conversations a little easier, as well as choose which conversations/groups I’m interested in at that particular moment.
TweetDeck still has a ways to go – but it’s one of the best Twitter Apps I’ve seen so far.

By: bnpositive

bnpositive — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:22:10 +0000

Great post about your new experiences with twitter and integrating, as well as keeping it, a valuable and not overwhelmingly useless tool.

By: Bill Deys

Bill Deys — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:15:33 +0000

I’m pretty picky, I usually look at their following to follower ratio and there past tweets to decide. That said I follow a bunch of people that I wouldn’t consider must follow people. To split the two I’ve used Twitters Device option, basically I only receive the updates for people I really want to follow to IM and SMS.

Works for me but I’d like to be able to group people and have an easy way to switch on and off notification settings. Aside from that I think TweetDeck is about the best option to handle groups right now.