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By: techcommdood

techcommdood — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:28:00 +0000

As a follow-up, my counter-blog: http://techcommdood.com/?p=339
And a piece of satire that also falls in line:
http://www.mkanderson.com/portal/archives/927

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:13:23 +0000

I do much the same as Char and techcommdood. I have a wide variety of interests, and while not everything everyone says is of interest every minute of every day, each one often says something I want to hear. I’ve never used a friend finder and I do periodically cull people out of my twitter stream when I find more fluff than value (these tend to not be the friends and peers I know). When someone follows me, I’ll go check out THEIR twitter stream first to see if they say anything I may be interested in. I do not add people willy nilly. It is not my life goal to have thousands and thousands of followers, or to follow thousands and thousands of people. As social media, I use Twitter to stay connected to friends, to stay abreast of topics in which I have an interest, and to occasionally see what various organizations say.

By: techcommdood

techcommdood — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:47:00 +0000

Using tools like these can be useful to a degree, but I prefer an actual social approach to social media. I follow based on word of mouth and exchange of ideas. I think I used a friend finder once, and it found so many poor matches for my needs/wants that I just gave up. Follow the people you know and who interest you. They will RT others who will be of interest to you; follow those people too. Grow organically. Act socially.

By: Char James-Tanny

Char James-Tanny — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:18:49 +0000

I always look critically at my Twitter stream, and I don’t find many useless tweets at all. Sure, some tweets don’t interest me (eg, anything to do with hockey), but the reason I follow those I do is that I’m interested in most of what they have to say. I have a wide variety of interests, and Twitter helps me satisfy all of them.

I use TweetDeck to keep everything organized, with columns for either specific accounts or specific searches. On really busy days, some columns don’t get read. That’s OK…there have always been hundreds (heck, millions) of conversations I missed just by not being where those conversations are taking place. The fact that I’m following people doesn’t mean I absolutely have to read everything. It means that the conversations are there when I want to jump in.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:07:08 +0000

Great topic. Drew me right in. But, I don’t use Twitter this way. I didn’t jump in and add tons of tweeps right away. I’ve gradually added and blocked tweeps over the years, so most conversations are interesting and the people I follow are interesting even if every tweet isn’t immediately useful in some practical way. By controlling who I follow and who follows me, I use TweetDeck fairly effectively to organize Tweets. So, as a result, I do not feel overwhelmed by Twitter spam, useless babble, or anything else. I suspect there are quite a few tweeps who have an organized approach to Twitter.

Cheers,

Sean

By: Frederique Murphy

Frederique Murphy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:31:32 +0000

Thanks Rich, that’s a good start and will be useful for people who are starting on Twitter.

Although, most of these require a lot of manual work, so again, as you mentioned, it all depends on why you are on Twitter, what are your objectives and how much time do you want to spend on it.

Twitter is a social media tool, so let’s not forget the “social” word, so, for me, I find it natural that people are socialising and are not always talking about business, a good mix is good. And, I know that mix is not always well respected!

People will follow you because they find you interesting as a person, a real person, not a robot only talking about business, and then, once you have a good network, when you start tweeting some links and recommendations, your followers will click on these as then they trust you.

It is all about a healthy balance, really.

Also, using a desktop application to help you sort out your stream could be very useful; with such tools, you can create columns and have your “favourite” twitters, your “business” twitters, your “friend” twitters, your “mastermind” twitters, your “news” twitter, etc. It really helps sort the main stream, which for most people is unreadable; my stream grows by hundred in a minute!