Comments on: Who do I Follow on Twitter?

By: Jen Mathis

Jen Mathis — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:08:49 +0000

I have very much the same follow/unfollow policies as you’ve listed, with the additional thought that “just because I unfollow you on Twitter doesn’t mean I don’t want to talk to you in real life.” Some people just don’t translate well from live to written- not a judgement, just an observation. If I unfollow, it means your stream wasn’t doing it for me; nothing more.

By: @jmdavidson

@jmdavidson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:31:40 +0000

Agree wholeheartedly on both counts. There is no reciprocal obligation to Follow. And un-following is such a non-event, it should be like unsubscribing from a newsletter.

By: Dennis S

Dennis S — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:24:17 +0000

By: Dennis S

Dennis S — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:23:08 +0000

I generally take a look at the time-line of anyone that follows me. You generally WON’T get my follow if your bio is trying to talk me into following you or your time line is all about how your making money, and how you’re going to help me make it too. I also look at how many people you’re following. When that number starts to get large, I know you’re not interacting with the people you’re following, you’re stalking the next sucker. Of course I could be wrong about all of this.

By: Smitty

Smitty — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:16:06 +0000

I also avoid people who tweet between midnight and 6:00 am. I figure while I’m sleeping, I don’t want to know what you are doing . Even some service tweeters (like sports and weather tweets) sometimes post in the middle of the night. I understand bandwidth, and tweets from different time zones, but if it wakes me up, I at least remove it from updating on my phone.

By: Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:52:31 +0000

Great post, and I completely agree with you. I also don’t follow people that tweet more than about 10 times a day. I just can’t keep up with that. I wish there was a way to tell twitter that I don’t want to see stuff from certain people unless it’s relevant to another conversation I’m following or something like that. I know that would be hard to code, but it would be better!