Comments on: The Selfish Networker

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:15:14 +0000

Thanks, Helen. Good seeing you! Loved your post over on Anne's site. :)

Milton, great seeing you again. Tell Muttie I want to be her follower any time. :)

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:15:57 +0000

Great post, Lori! I think I will ReTweet this one!! Helen : )

By: Milton

Milton — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:19:59 +0000

Ah, Muttie's just started Twitter. She reckoned she'd better cos she's promised to use it for a client. She's not really 'into' it tho, prefers Facebook.

And by the way, Muttie has just discovered Willa Cather and can't get enough of this woman!

Milt x

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:08:09 +0000

I use Twellow.com to get to groups of folks I want to be associating with. And I check out who my friends are following.

By: BJ

BJ — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:52:20 +0000

I figure TWITS can follow me, as long as they don't spam me. I won't follow them unless they offer me something -- usually good information -- in exchange. That's rare, though.

You can add another way to spot TWITS: they won't respond. If I respond to something someone's said, it would be nice if they'd respond to my response. If I retweet someone, I like being thanked. This is all part of being 'human' on Twitter.

TWITS are nothing more than robots, no matter how healthy their pulse.

And Wendy:

You were following the wrong people. You need to find people who are talking about what you want to talk about. There are lists out there to help you.

And, there really are no rules. The 'you have to follow someone who follows you' rule was developed by marketers, and is a piece of you-know-what. You only need to follow the people who give you what you're looking for.

One place to find the people you're looking for is Twibes: http://www.twibes.com/twitter-groups

There, you can go by subject, and find people. You can even click through to 'Tweet Threads' to see what the folks in that Twibe talk about.

Once you follow those people, you can usually find others through them.

I hope you find this useful.

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:41:24 +0000

I'm not even on Twitter and know a couple of Twits. How? LinkedIn now allows people to post updates via twitter. A couple "marketing gurus" often post five or six updates in less than one day, all via Twitter.

Annoying.

So, Lori, what Twitter Tips would you give someone still soliloquizing about whether To Tweet or not to Tweet?

That is the question.

(Storms and torrential rain here yesterday but thankfully no tornadoes in my town. Not far away - both slightly south of here all the way from from Iowa to Indiana, and throughout Chicago proper - got slammed. Tornado warnings all over the place.)

By: Ruthibelle

Ruthibelle — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:35:45 +0000

twits and spammers are synonymous, yes?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:27:13 +0000

I kind of lost my desire to use Twitter because of the persistent Marketers and the ones who only tweet what they're doing every few seconds. (Turned on computer to work, I started article #2, First sentence done, misspelled three words so far) I'm sorry, but what is the point of Twitter again? I once heard it was to socialize with a community of like-minded people. Apparently some people's idea of socialization is different than mine.

If I were to chat face to face with my friends,telling them only about my bathroom breaks, what time it is every couple of minutes and my breakfast menu then I wouldn't have those friends anymore. Nor would they put up with me saying the same sales pitch 12 times in a 30 minute period. I have a twitter account, but I haven't done anything with it yet. It just seems like there's too many “rules” for me to keep up with. Just give me a good ol' fashioned chat without the politics of marketing a business.

By: Kimberly Ben

Kimberly Ben — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:27:58 +0000

I started to realize that many of the Internet marketers that were following me were so hungry to increase their follower numbers that they will follow you hoping that you follow them in return only to "unfollow" you again to keep their "followers" numbers higher than the number of people they are "following." Not to mention the fact that many will repeatedly tweet the same self-serving info throughout the day. No time to entertain those shenanigans.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:34:57 +0000

Cathy, I won't follow anyone who doesn't retweet. It's easy to see on their page if they're repeating the same message, spewing forth ads constantly, or just taking up space without interacting. That's my personal rule – you want me to follow?Show me you care about your followers.