Boris is a blogger, speaker and serial entrepreneur. He founded The Next Web but also V3 Redirect Services (sold), HubHop Wireless Internet Provider (sold), Twitter Counter, Spread.us and several other companies. Boris is very active on Twitter as @Boris, on Google+ and Facebook.
Everyone expects (I only use Twitter atm) that if they follow, you follow them back.
It doesn’t work that way. Fair? don’t know, my opinion though. I want to see relevant content to follow someone. I don’t have the time that someone’s irrelevant twitter posts are taking over my twitter stream. (Take @1mfollowers for instance. I like the project, but i wont just follow someone, provide me with things i like.)
If someone is relevant and posts interesting things. Personal or work related, doesn’t matter. I will definitely follow them. That’s what I try to do to my followers. Being relevant. They follow me for a reason. And the reason is always different, but they like to read things they like.
Broaden conversations. Learn. Knowledge boost. That’s what in it for me atm.
I twit about webdesign/front-end programming mostly, with a couple of marketing, social media, horeca and movie tweets now an then.
Hope to start a conversation someday with you…@MikevHoenselaar
I try to keep a healthy Followers/Friends ratio. 2/1 is good. And on Facebook I’ve made it a habit to add only people whom I’ve at least seen in real life.
Well, I think in one or the other controversial episodes, Facebook wrote a user with a huge number of friends, that Facebook is designed basically to keep track of the friends you already have and not to befriend new ones.
While I think that’s a rather stupid thing to say for a for-profit company, I guess it holds true for most of my contacts on Facebook.
So true.
Everyone expects (I only use Twitter atm) that if they follow, you follow them back.
It doesn’t work that way. Fair? don’t know, my opinion though. I want to see relevant content to follow someone. I don’t have the time that someone’s irrelevant twitter posts are taking over my twitter stream. (Take @1mfollowers for instance. I like the project, but i wont just follow someone, provide me with things i like.)
If someone is relevant and posts interesting things. Personal or work related, doesn’t matter. I will definitely follow them. That’s what I try to do to my followers. Being relevant. They follow me for a reason. And the reason is always different, but they like to read things they like.
Broaden conversations. Learn. Knowledge boost. That’s what in it for me atm.
I twit about webdesign/front-end programming mostly, with a couple of marketing, social media, horeca and movie tweets now an then.
Hope to start a conversation someday with you…@MikevHoenselaar
So very true.
So follow me @petty01 back home and I promise to follow you back to your place….
If you follow I lead @grim*
Funny. I try to only follow people whose Tweets are interesting but I accept everybody who wants to connect on Facebook…
I try to keep a healthy Followers/Friends ratio. 2/1 is good. And on Facebook I’ve made it a habit to add only people whom I’ve at least seen in real life.
Well, I think in one or the other controversial episodes, Facebook wrote a user with a huge number of friends, that Facebook is designed basically to keep track of the friends you already have and not to befriend new ones.
While I think that’s a rather stupid thing to say for a for-profit company, I guess it holds true for most of my contacts on Facebook.
I totally agree, where does following everyone back get you? It completely removes the ‘getting relevant content’ aspect of Twitter.
This could provide a good service for the blogging community.