Comments on: The 3 things I learned by following and unfollowing 19,348 people on Twitter.

By: Mohammad Afaq

Mohammad Afaq — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:05:21 +0000

Why don't you use huitter. You are spending hours unfollowing people but huitter will unfollow all the people who are not following you back automatically. You can use it for free first three times and just start huitter in the morning and it's about two hours or so and you are free from your nonmutual followers. Go here: http://huitter.com/mutuality (be careful that you can use it for free just three times, then you have to pay for it so don't stop it in the middle of it's work). Good Luck with that! Mohammad Afaq Free Website Traffic Mohammad Afaq´s last blog post..How to get free (dofollow) PR6 backlinks.

By: Krissa

Krissa — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:43:09 +0000

Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing

By: Patrick Curl

Patrick Curl — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:30:15 +0000

@Internet Business Blogger: I get about 25% of my readers from twitter. Each of my posts are submitted to twitter though -which brings in a lot of curious readers.

By: Internet Business Blogger

Internet Business Blogger — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:54:00 +0000

I am always intrigued by what it is like to 1. follow a ton of people and 2. have lots follow me. so far I am following around 230 and have about 766 people following me.

Patrick, how much traffic did you get to your blog posts from Twitter readers? I find that I get none. Also I have not gotten involved enough uin the conversation and that may be because I am simply not following enough people to see these conversations take place.

Well I am now following YOU let's see how it goes, thanks for the insightful post

By: James D Kirk

James D Kirk — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:53:04 +0000

Interesting how memes just seem to gurgle up from the ether around topics. Just this past weekend shared a post/comment/tweet exchange with an ex-Twitterer that I had unfollowed, after she started using Qwitter and posted about unfollowing those that unfollowed here (again, like Michael above, via notification from Qwitter.) In a nutshell, what I find is that the beauty of Twitter and/or the rest of the social media sites/tools is that we get to use them how, when and where WE want to use them. And in the end, don't you think that's a good thing? I sure do!

If anyone would like to follow the above mentioned conversation, it is actually quite interesting and can be found at The Politics and Practice of Following on Twitter

By: Patrick Curl

Patrick Curl — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:30:59 +0000

@MIchael Barber: I do apologize for the unfollow – I’m actually unfollowing those who aren’t following me, and am cleaning my list up a bit – I’ll be adding people back to it after I fix it -right now I can’t add anyone – which is one reason for the cleanup.

By: MIchael Barber

MIchael Barber — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:06:16 +0000

Patrick,

Thanks for the insights on your twitter usage. I was a little disheartened last night to learn that you unfollowed me (via Qwitter). Not taking it personally, but I do try and follow similar recommendations to that ones you make above and some others. I definitely agree there is a breaking point on Twitter and other social networks where you can’t actively follow the conversation. If you don’t, I find it hard to provide value to those conversations. Tools like TweetDeck and other services help me segment people, topics and other subjects well.

Thanks again.

Michael

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By: Andrea J. Stenberg

Andrea J. Stenberg — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:25:13 +0000

I completely agree that with all social media sites we use, we need to find the balance between building a large network and actually getting to know people. People who insist on only connecting with people they know “in real life” miss out on the opportunity to meet new people. And people who connect with everyone don’t really connect with anyone.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Andrea

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