Comments on: A New Direction With Twitter

By: Meam Wye

Meam Wye — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:33:13 +0000

An insightful post with good tips. To get maximum benefit, social sites have to be used sensibly. Twitter has a full potential of becoming the largest official spam network if not used appropriately. The result will be that everyone will be tweeting with nobody to read!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:44:22 +0000

I think conversations are key on Twitter to build a positive following and not one with people who don’t care about what you have to say. I agree with you, dropping my follower number down has been great and I wish I was doing that from the beginning. I have lost a lot of followers in the process of starting from scratch, but since they are mostly bots like you said…good riddance!

By: Mike Buechele

Mike Buechele — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:13:53 +0000

Thanks for the mention. Going from following 3000+ to just under 300 has been great for me. Clearer conversations and no spamming. As you wrote, I also lost around 2000 followers but most were gone almost irremediably so they were all bots or otherwise not interested anyway.