Comments on: Are You a Twitter Snob?

By: Cara Celli

Cara Celli — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:35:02 +0000

It’s a compliment to me if someone follows me. That means they’re interested in what I’m talking about, and to ignore them is rude. Plain and simple. I used to have a different take on this subject, but I realized I wasn’t being nice to people by excluding them from the “honor” of reading my tweets. Who the heck am I any way, the Queen of England? I’m just a regular person, and I’m not gonna treat my followers like I think I’m better than them.

By: RecruiterGuy

RecruiterGuy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:08:52 +0000

Hmmm…
In the same vblog we’re telling people:

* It’s not social media unless everyone is following everyone – regardless of conversations taking place.

* Don’t be a “Twitter snob” – follow everyone and even automate your re-follows (because automated following is very “social”)

* Not following people is like turning your back on them at a party (would love to see Perry speak individually with all 70,000 people at a party he throws.)

* Create and manage multiple accounts so that you’re not an “asshole” (because you have time for this – as a side note, tweetdeck would let you create groupings, Perry… and it’s free also… perhaps another “a-hole” cure?)

* That Perry needs to go unfollow people because there are some he shouldn’t be following (that doesn’t sound very social.)

Ref the comment about Solo Media vs. Social Media – it’s a bold assumption that Rose doesn’t carry conversations and respond with @ and DM’s or that he doesn’t like or acknowledge people he’s not following.
Because someone doesn’t auto-follow 70k people doesn’t make them un-social.

–= THE BOTTOM LINE =–
The beauty of Twitter is that everyone can use Twitter however they see fit – and none of them are wrong. Calling them out as snobs or abusers because of who they do or don’t follow would just seem to be arrogance.

By: rob573 (Robert Bockenkamp)

rob573 (Robert Bockenkamp) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:14:18 +0000

Are You a Twitter Snob? http://tinyurl.com/6a8jkg

By: Baxter Tocher

Baxter Tocher — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:39:45 +0000

Perry Belcher makes a very valid point, which I’ve used as my own benchmark since I first started using Twitter. I don’t follow people like Rose or Kawasaki (or Scoble, for that matter). If they’ve anything valid to say, it’ll filter through Twitter anyway. If not, it’ll just get lost in the noise.

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Proxy Bar » Introduzione a Twitter — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:17:41 +0000

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By: the__edge (Dave)

the__edge (Dave) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:19:39 +0000

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By: Cory O'Brien

Cory O'Brien — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:03:23 +0000

Since everyone uses Twitter for their own reasons, I don’t think there’s any golden ratio when in terms of the optimal number of followers to following.

For me, I follow everyone that interests me, and though I’m currently following more than a 1,000, I still don’t feel overwhelmed by it. In addition, since I follow those that I find interesting, I’m not put off by the fact that some people that I follow don’t follow anyone back. If that’s how they want to use Twitter, then I’m just as free to not follow them as they are to not follow others. True, they’re not getting the full value out of Twitter that I get out of it, but they’re not wasting my time either; they just feel that they have other places where their social media time is better spent.

By: Oyvind Solstad

Oyvind Solstad — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:08:03 +0000

Hmmm… None of the above choices. You should follow interesting people. I would say that most people who follow me are people that are interested in me and/or the stuff I’m doing and working with. Which of course means that people who follow me are into the same stuff as I do. So when someone follows me, I check their Twitterfeed and if it looks remotely interesting, I hit follow.

Which in turn means that I have a little bit more people I follow, than people who follow me.

BTW, I’m Oyvind on Twitter: twitter.com/oyvind

By: TIBR Mister EDgAr h

TIBR Mister EDgAr h — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:58:42 +0000

You mean like what tweetdeck does!? ;)

By: TIBR Mister EDgAr h

TIBR Mister EDgAr h — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:57:19 +0000

How about people do what the hell pleases them and the dork police stays out of other people’s life!?

My followers/following ratio is about equal but I don’t follow people just because they are following me, I’m not an attention whore! I follow those I want to base on my own rules.