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Do You Follow?

Started by matsie · 10 months ago

Twitter is a microblogging client that allows users to make updates (tweets) in 140 characters or less and view other users’ tweets, as well.  The networking aspect of Twitter is far superior to that of most other social networks insofar as you can follow whomever you desire ... Continue reading »

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  • Logical Extremes

    1 year ago

    Twitter is a very cool service, and there's a huge set of services built around it. When it started to get big last year, I was quite skeptical about its utility, but it can become addictive.

    I haven't spent a lot of time finding people to follow. I initially populated my list with professional social media people, but that gets a little dry. Now I try to find real people who want to share real stuff (in 140 characters or less of course), or who have interesting posts. There are so many ways people use it, the etiquettes are still nascent.

    I do tend to follow people who follow me first, but filtering out spammy types or people who just don't have interests meshing with mine. It seems creepy of me to initiate direct messages to people I only just met through Twitter, so I haven't done much direct. If I know someone, chat or SMS are more natural, but maybe that's just because I'm a relative Twn00b.
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  • Mattie

    1 year ago

    You shouldn't be so leery of a direct message. I was at first, but it's not so creepy. I send a lot of more personal links through DM or sometimes, I move a conversation to DM when I feel it may be clogging the twitter update page. When Twitter becomes too much of a messaging service is usually when I DM...or to send some sort of detail about myself I don't want blasted to the world (like my messenger name or email).

    I have spent almost no time finding people to follow. I just keep getting followed by folks. It makes me wonder what their impetus to follow me is.
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  • Steve/devolutionary

    1 year ago

    I mainly use twitter to keep up with my friends and something to do at work. Although most of my friends are too cheap for text messaging, the ones who aren't tight asses I've become closer to. Typically I add people I know. If other people add me I check them out, if it's a bot, if they have over a thousand they are following, or they wanted Huckabee for president, i do not follow them.
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  • Steve/devolutionary

    1 year ago

    I figured this would be better than tweeting it to you. I'm not sure if you've seen this.

    I don't want to grow up song by Tom Waits, covered by The Ramones, art by Daniel Clowes!
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