Comments on: Why I Won’t Follow You on Twitter

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:36:05 +0000

Sarah, exactly! Tell me something useful, not what you had for breakfast. Who cares? Ugh! It's usually the same ones, too. Also, I'll stop following anyone who tosses out political grenades. Inflammatory political tweets are SO boring!

Kellie, I totally agree. Mind you, I'm okay with a "Yay! My team won!" or "Hey, this blog post is hysterical", but when the tweets are far off base constantly, I'm done!

Anne, I completely agree. Pages of tweets by one person - maddening!

Georganna, no, you don't have to reciprocate! I sure don't unless the person is someone who has interesting tweets or background. There are people out there who try to get tons of followers - why is a mystery. I want to follow interesting people. I don't want to follow sixteen thousand realtors, car salespeople, gurus of varying degree, or people who may spam the bejeezuz out of me.

Amen, Andrea. And happy holidays to all of you, too!

By: Andrea Franco-Cook

Andrea Franco-Cook — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:45:10 +0000

I agree with you Lori, time is precious...follow the tweeters who have something valuable to share. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Best

By: Georganna Hancock M.S.

Georganna Hancock M.S. — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:59:48 +0000

You mean I've broken yet another "rule"? Where is it written that Follows must be reciprocated?

I'm way too busy trying to keep my blog list of Reciprocals up to date! (When I find that someone has put a link to "A Writer's Edge" on a main blog page, I reciprocate; but I refuse to "trade links" on request.)

It's the same but totally different, as Jay Leno says.

Happy holidays to all!

By: Devon Ellington

Devon Ellington — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:28:32 +0000

I agree, Lori!

One thing I love about Twitter is that I follow a lot of people in a variety of professions, and I feel like I'm expanding my horizons. I like to follow people who work in very different fields, but have something to say, not just something to sell!

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:43:42 +0000

So where's my re-tweet button… the people who drive me mad are the ones who post a whole series of different, usually useless, tweets in a row so you get a whole page of someone.

By: Kellie Sheehan

Kellie Sheehan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:21:00 +0000

Great points. I think relevance is important too. If I start following someone because they say they are in PR or love to talk about writing tips, but then I see nothing but sports-related tweets over the course of a week, then it's "good-bye!"

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:12:58 +0000

I don't follow people who tweet what they're doing everyday, such as work, school, sleep, tired or the infamous "bored". I don't really need to know that. I want to know what's going on in their minds, what they think of certain subjects. Or information that was useful to them, so they pass it on to their followers. I also like to know when people have new blog posts if they're bloggers.