Comments on: Why I’m Qwitting You On Twitter

By: e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics » Quick Hits — December 25, 2008

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:27:53 +0000

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By: Martin Edic (Techrigy)

Martin Edic (Techrigy) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:56:09 +0000

I limit my Twitter conversations to subjects near my interest area as a business marketer. You have an incredible ability to target communities of interest with keyword tracking via something like Tweetbeep. If you stay on your plan and only follow those who share your interests, it works.
That being said, I seldom follow pundits. They are not potential customers or partners and are usually more focused on building their own reputation by constant chatter about the next new thing. Fun, but does nothing for my business and seldom truly aligns with my interests.
I am slowly building both followers and followees because I want those who are people I’d talk shop with (and the occasional joke or off topic thread!).

By: Ike

Ike — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:13:00 +0000

Hunter, this should be fun. I’ve got a submission in at Media Bullseye that should post Friday as well!

By: Albert Maruggi

Albert Maruggi — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:36:37 +0000

You can make an argument for any ratio of following to followers. I’d could make a compelling case in any direction related to your post about limiting the number of people you follow. Instead let this be a fun exploration, whether to follow or limit is captured in theplot of this movie Sliding Doors – enjoy – yes a chick flick you can watch with your partner and like!

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:29:19 +0000

@ Mary, I’ve got a guest post about Twitter coming out on BloggingWithoutABlog.com this Friday, which might help.

Here’s what I meant about real time. When people sign up for Twitter, they start posting tweets through the web interface, at twitter.com. This gives you a static view, because you only see updates when you refresh the page. And you probably won’t refresh it very much.

If you use a Twitter app like TweetDeck, you get constant real time updates automatically. It’s hard to explain why this is better, but it’s kind of like actually being there vs. reading about it in the paper the next day.