Comments on: Twitter Hoarders vs Twitter Snobs

By: Satya Colombo

Satya Colombo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:11:37 +0000

Perry’s a brilliant marketer… and a convicted criminal who loves the limelight, and whatever tactics he can use for his business, however scummy they may be. Do a google search for perry belcher conviction.

Great job on the video Jun, and i always love a little online controversy, but i think you missed the REAL point, which is that Perry’s got a multimillion dollar internet marketing business, and he’s just using a classic “attack” tactic to build more traffic and business.

- then again, i guess you’re kinda doing the same thing, just in a slightly more productive, community-oriented way…

i guess the bigger question to ask here is, “at the end of the day, does your quest to expand the bottom line of your business eclipse the value your providing to your audience and potential PAYING clients and customers…?

- cause if that’s the case, you’re just wasting everyone’s time, including your own…

By: Farshid Ketabchi

Farshid Ketabchi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:29:24 +0000

here is my blog post on why you don’t have to follow everyone who follows you. twitter follow is a 1-way relation. it doesn’t have to be reciprocated. otherwise twitter relation would be like the ones in facebook and linkedin — undirected. important distionction. this is not a popularity contest.

pls read my post: “On Etiquette and Math of “Follow” in Twitter”
http://tektrends.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/twitiquette-etiquette-of-follow-on-twitter/

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By: GreenLasagna

GreenLasagna — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:47:57 +0000

I am VERY picky about who I follow. When I am working my account, I’ll post tweets about some of the absurd tweeple who follow me, and the auto followers, and cybertramps. People who follow me agree with me on what I say 99% of the time. We think that auto-follows are killing Twitter, killing the sense of community. For instance, yesterday I had about 300 new followers, and when I got through weeding them, I had picked up about 60 new people I was following, and blocked the rest. I try to keep my “following” and “followers” close to even. When people look at my account, I want them to see that I have a community, not a collection. I do have some that I follow who don’t follow me, like some quote sites, and both of the Twitter owners, and @spam, @twitter, plus a couple of news sites.

BTW, I dumped Perry Belcher long ago. He does not include you in a conversation unless you are one of his “elite”, i.e., the first 100 people who he met on Twitter, and he is insulting if you don’t agree with him. Perry reminds me of the geeky nerd in school who always got picked on, and now wants to show everyone how cool he is. He’s full of it.

What your followers think of you is directly relateable to how many #followfriday recommendations you get. I actually had to get people to STOP recommending me because I could not keep up!

By: Keenahn Jung

Keenahn Jung — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:05:55 +0000

Hrmm, interesting. A lot of good comments in this thread.

Most of the people I currently follow got on that list because a) they followed me first and b) I actually engaged with them in some sort of conversation and I liked what they had to say. Ocassionally, I follow people based on recommendations from others. Rarely do I cruise the public stream any more, looking for cool people to follow.

With apps like Tweetdeck, you can easily see who is RT’ing or replying your tweets, even those who you don’t follow, so it’s really not necessary to autofollow everyone back. Jun you are right that this guy’s message is ridiculous.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:00:35 +0000

That bunk, that’s because Perry uses Twitterpowerline Followers Software to add followers. But I think his followers like him anyway. But Even the famed Guy Kawasaki uses the humminbird software and he is praised on Twitter. Go figure. Not sure what the difference is

By: James Hofheins

James Hofheins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:38:22 +0000

I don’t autofollow, and I don’t follow all who follow me. My tweets are sometimes very targeted, so not everyone will enjoy or get anything from my tweetstream - and that’s all good.

Great vid!
James Hofheins

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:03:03 +0000

This guy is on something or trying to get attention. I try to follow everyone back only if we have conversations. Otherwise it doesn’t make any sense. Every once in a while I unfollow the one’s who I never get a response from. I do ask them to tweet me and let me get to know them better, so it’s not weird when I get a tweet about them going to the gym or something like that! I think it quality not quantity that counts. The one’s who don’t respond even after askinf them to, I unfollow.
It’s a simple as that!!!

By: Crash

Crash — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:41:51 +0000

I would really appreciate your feedback on my post: http://twitthis.com/hytxvq

Keeping in mind I joined Twitter through a radio buddy back in late April.

Thanks. Your video post is going in my updates @andycrash

By: Peggy Dolane

Peggy Dolane — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:50:32 +0000

I second that “I wanna talk! I’m not a collector.”

I also want to know, on even a superficial level, the people I follow. At 140 characters its hard enough to do that. Add in thousands of people you are trying to track and it’s impossible. If you talk to me, I follow you. I have a much easier time doing that with only 1000 people I follow. And surprise, I actually recognize them when I run across them on posts like this one. (Hi Gennefer!)