Comments on: My Follow Philosophy

By: Susan Champlin

Susan Champlin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:24:20 +0000

You inspired me to weed through my Following list, something I should do much more rigorously. Because you’re so right, it just becomes noise if you’re following too many. And like Facebook, certain people can take up your whole feed—usually NOT the people worth hearing from that often! You’re always so wise on this stuff. Thank you.

By: Wzzy

Wzzy — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:23:53 +0000

Thank you for the comments, Cliff and Marla. I used to arbitrarily limit my follows to 300… then it became 400, and now a bit over 500. I do go through and prune periodically, and removed a bunch of them to lists at one point.

One thing I forgot to add is that it’s easy to spot someone who only followed you in hopes of adding to their own list: they unfollow you a day or two later if you fail to reciprocate. I use NutShell Mail to track follows and unfollows, which makes it even easier.

By: Marla Schulman

Marla Schulman — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:25:19 +0000

Well said!

As the Twitter community grows and grows AND grows daily, the twitter stream has become so dilute that newbies don’t always get the etiquette of Twitter down by “listening” to others as I and others were able to do not so long ago.

It is important for you and others, to put forth some reasoning that is clear, concise and is something for others to use, revise, or ignore as they see fit!

Like you, I enjoy conversations that enlighten, entertain and enrich my professional and personal life, and sometimes it’s nice to even cheer up someone in need of a cyber-hug!

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:56:28 +0000

Nice post. I can’t follow more than 100 people, although the ones I do follow are for much the same reasons as you.

I kind of feel bad when people follow me because there is an expectation that I should follow them back, but I find more than 100 is too much static.