Don't Get Busy After a Poor Post

Wow, my last post was not well constructed.  Then I went on a business trip and had no time to follow up.  The comments beat me silly.

So ... I didn't really mean that in Twitter everyone should follow everyone else.

My personal rules if someone follows me are:

1. Check them out

2. Make sure they aren't a Twittermouth.  More than, say, 30 tweets a day gets very close scrutiny.

3. How much is that person in conversations and how much are they just spouting

4. Do they look thoughtful?

I am more willing to give people the benefit of the doubt because I can just unfollow them later.

The main point of that post was, the goal isn't to run around getting people to follow you - it's to have conversations with other people.

So, please stop hitting me!

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Comments

[Edward Vielmetti]

Jim -

I find that I cope best as a human being if I am only following some finite set of people, and not the infinite addition of friends forever.

The pattern is find someone interesting, add them, keep adding until it scrolls too fast to keep up with; then dial things back to something reasonable.

Periodically I set my twitters to private just to flush out people who are following me who I'm not following - that generates emails from them & generally I add them back.

There's too much traffic in the network to watch all of it with priority interrupts, but I'm happy to have people fade in and out of view based on the day and what I'm working on at the time.