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It amazes me when I get alerted about someone that has started to follow me on Twitter; I visit their profile to find they have 800 followers, are following 900 Twits, and have only tweeted 5 times. Something seems wrong here.
There appears to be an unwritten code of etiquette that you should follow me if I follow you. What a load of bollocks!
Most of the people that follow me are totally unrelated to what I tweet about, so why do they bother. When I get followed I always visit their profile to see if they are interesting enough to follow. Only a few are usually worth following and those are the ones I enjoy conversing with.
I suspect most of these twats are only interested in the numbers - bragging rights maybe? Volumes of followers are only valuable if they care about what you have to say and are prepared to participate in a conversation. If you are following 9,000 tweeters (or even 900), how on earth can you read all of their tweets. Not even TweetDeck can help - you'd need to spend every waking hour on Twitter (how sad).
The likely net result is that no one reads your tweets, therefore you've wasted your time (unless you have a big ego). My advice is to focus on quality, not quantity. Build a meaningful community of like-minded tweeters that share relevant and useful information. It may take longer to build momentum but the result will be more meaningful.
Otherwise, what's the point of it all?
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§ Carole
said on : 10/01/09 @ 09:13
I find that most of the potential "followers" who have 9,000 tweeters are those who have no idea about the Twitter concept of giving first and getting later. They cannot contribute meaningfully to this playing field and should stick to marketing on other platforms.
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