Comments on: Why, How and Who Do You Follow?

By: Why, How and Who Do You Follow? : code name max

Why, How and Who Do You Follow? : code name max — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:36:35 +0000

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By: minutemaker

minutemaker — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:50:55 +0000

Hey Tom,
Thanks for stopping by. While I did mention in my closing that “I still look for quality new people to follow…” I did not elaborate, and you are right that taking the time to find interesting people is essential to any follow strategy.
Checked out your blog. Working on a comment to post there.
Look forward to speaking with you further.
-R

By: Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:57:43 +0000

You missed an important one… THE FOLLOW INTERESTING PEOPLE STRATEGY… (regardless of whether they’ll follow you).

When people follow me I check out what they’ve written recently (if I don’t know them personally) and see what they’ve been tweeting. Anyone with more than 50% @replies isn’t really worth following in my opinion. I know that this might be classed as the RANDOM STRATEGY because someone might have just been having a bad-tweet day but it works for me.

I’ve been thinking about this too…
http://www.theotherblog.com/Articles/2009/02/09/twitter-problems/

By: Chris Atwood

Chris Atwood — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:01:22 +0000

I like the “Even Steven” method, although I’m not super strict about it. I follow people who I find interesting. I want to know more about them. In most cases, I get a follow-back from them.

When responding to a follow, I manually check their page and see if their content is something I would EVER want to see. Most of the time it’s interesting, useful or at least funny (depending on the level of use e.g. personal, quasi-business, business, power, twitterati), but sometimes it’s not. If it’s not, I don’t follow back. It’s their prerogative to unfollow me or not.

I also go on, switch to private, block spammers who have followed me (who I really don’t even want my content associated with so they can have a bigger twitter ego), and then go back to public. It messes with my ratio a little bit, my followers go down, but I try and keep my stream with only people I actually want to read about.

By: Charity Hisle

Charity Hisle — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:12:47 +0000

This was fun to read! I’m so glad you cleared away those tumble weeds! For the record, I’m Even-Steven, nice to meet you!