Comments on: Let’s Discuss Your Twitter Follow Habits

By: GamTrak

GamTrak — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:02:50 +0000

I organized my TweetDeck today and I love it! Now that I have a couple months of Twitter experience under my belt I’m learning how to use it to my advantage.

I will follow anyone that is in a field of my interest in order to see who they follow and followers are. So far I’ve had 95% in my area of interest.

I have had to block a few folks that only have porn links or related material. IMO they only follow you so folks will find them.
GamTrak´s last blog … TweetDeck is a great tool!

By: The Affiliate Marketer's Help Desk

The Affiliate Marketer's Help Desk — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:40:26 +0000

I couldn't agree with you more! What good is it even doing the person you're following if you really don't care about what they've got to say? Maybe if she thought perhaps, about the people that are just following her just for the sake of having their picture display on her home page to increase their own exposure? It really is very pretentious to do such a thing. I try to only return the follow of the people whose profile really interest me and let the rest do what they like. If my following doesn't increase because of it, that's fine with me. The Affiliate Marketer's Help Desk’s last blog post..Are You Bouncing from One Traffic Building Strategy to the Next?

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:08:52 +0000

Jordy, I have to disagree. Most of my replies on Twitter are not spam. They are people thanking me or asking me questions and the questions allow me to educate and/or promote relevant links to my site. So I think it depends on how you use it.

I use it to announce new things I’m doing on my site, recommend helpful articles and my blog posts and it’s opened up a channel for me to promote and educate. If you tweet about things that are useful to people, then it is another way to promote your own personal brand. I love the space. I think it depends on your niche, how you use it, etc.

When I first started tweeting I didn’t get many replies either. But now that I’ve learned what people respond to, I’m getting much better results. It’s about finding the right mix of tweeting that works for you.

By: Jordy

Jordy — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:16:23 +0000

I am still a little puzzled by the whole Twitter buzz that is taking place. I think it’s going to fade out someday as quickly as it has risen.
I added a couple of musicians the other day to follow and piles of musicians are following me now.

I have a couple of hundred total strangers who are seeing my short blurbs. No one ever responds unless they are selling something and want my business.

What is the benifit other than the possibility of someone clicking on a link that I may have posted.

I’m beginning to view the website as a huge spam market and I do not like spam.

It’s a place to develop shallow relationships through short and shallow posts.

By: Annie @ PhD in Parenting

Annie @ PhD in Parenting — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:27:09 +0000

I do have a "favourites" column in TweetDeck and an "All Tweets" column. I try to keep on top of what is going on in my favourites column even as I work on other things. It isn't realistic for me to do that with my "All Tweets" column. I would get nothing done other than twitter otherwise. However, when I do take time to just hang out on twitter, then I follow the All Tweets column and try to reply to and interact with people that I wouldn't otherwise. And if they engage back and are interesting, they may migrate to my favourites column. Annie @ PhD in Parenting’s last blog post..When it is not breast

By: Writer Dad

Writer Dad — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:45:07 +0000

I want conversation from my Twitter, so know I don't auto follow and yes, I have turned off notifications. I follow people when they say something interesting or when I'm @tted and it gets my attention. I see no value in following just to follow. To my eyes that is an entirely empty metric. Writer Dad’s last blog post..The Classroom is Only a Baseline

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:49:55 +0000

No, I don’t return all follows. When I get the email notification that someone is following me I always click the link to check them out to see if they’re tweeting about stuff that I might find interesting. I look at their bio but I also read a dozen or so of their recent tweets to get a sense of their style. Then I decide to follow or not. I’ve discovered some awesome folks to follow who expose me to amazing things I wouldn’t have found on my own.. btw, I’m at http://www.twitter.com/firstthird if anyone wants to try me out.

By: Mazhar Hussain Shah

Mazhar Hussain Shah — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:07:35 +0000

Great work so for.

By: Matthew Huggins

Matthew Huggins — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:55:38 +0000

I have actively begun following people that I deem as relevant and that can add value to my business. As I've done this, I've noticed for the most part that people that follow me typically fall within the same market. I've noticed an increase in traffic back to my site because of clicks of my blog posts within Twitter, clicks from my profile and an increase in ReTweets. If the follower is way off I will not reciprocate the follow to balloon my numbers. Matthew Huggins’s last blog post..Post-It Productivity

By: Adrian-UK

Adrian-UK — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:16:25 +0000

Never even looked at it. Maybe I should because there are a few people whom I really feel that I should follow. Lisa obviously and a few other marketers who to me seem genuine and offer good value. Having said that all those people whom I follow have RSS feeds which I’ve placed on my iGoogle desktop so I generally get new stuff when posted. So is there any reason to have a twitter account and get messages all day long or am I missing something. Is there any benefit such as back links via twitter or is it just a social time-waster? Please feel free to correct me if I have missed the point.