I rarely read the other tweets unless someone sends me a direct message.. I use twitter to promote and further my own agendas.
I was having a convo with a several people online this weekend (another forums chat) and they say they seldom read others tweets unless it's a news or soap opers site that they are following (for spoilers & whatever).
I don't really tweet hardly at all, in fact i cant think of the last time i even looked at my page, but i wonder this...
Is there a way to see if others are reading your tweets or not?
It seems (from the chat convo i was in) that lots of people follow just to follow others, has nothing to do with finding what they post interesting & no one who joined chat that day (during that convo) ever reads the tweets of others... In fact soomeone later posted a thread asking if anyone reads the tweets of others & of all the responses (over 40 responses as of last night) not one person reads their followers or followees tweets.
I read their tweets and often click on their links if they sound interesting. If I like what they say I will Retweet it. This is a good way to get more followers is by RTing stuff. I would think if you don't respond to other's tweets that you just end up talking to yourself and that's boring. I have have to respond or RT things because the real reason I got on Twitter was to help network and job hunt. So far it hasn't done very much in that way. I had a few people ask for my portfolio link or resume, but they weren't hiring and were also too far of a drive.
I read their tweets and often click on their links if they sound interesting. If I like what they say I will Retweet it. This is a good way to get more followers is by RTing stuff. I would think if you don't respond to other's tweets that you just end up talking to yourself and that's boring. I have have to respond or RT things because the real reason I got on Twitter was to help network and job hunt. So far it hasn't done very much in that way. I had a few people ask for my portfolio link or resume, but they weren't hiring and were also too far of a drive.
That makes sense, but to those who just tweet everything they do online such as fun sites they visit, chatrooms, forum chats, game sites blah blah... i wonder if they get clicked often or just how many people pay attention to junk tweeters... Maybe a lot do, i just wondered due to my chat convo.
If you follow more than 30 people, it'd be hard to read all their tweets, if not impossible. Better to have lots of followers than to follow.
Right now I follow about 450 people. From what I heard only a small percent really post things. Most are readers and lurkers, not much for chatting or they don't get on too often. Just look at this forum as an example. Always over a 100 guests and only a few of us posting. Any forum I've been on about 20 people do all the posting no matter how big the forum is. Twitter is like that.
Of course, I don't read all tweets, because I'm not on it all the time. I do read and scan through quite a few when I have Tweetdeck open. Otherwise what's the point of being on Twitter if all you do is talk about your own stuff?
Well, now that I think about it, I've posted many times that I've been looking for a job in hopes that someone will see it. A few have, but for as many times that I tweet it, others should be retweeting to help a person out. I know I have done it for a few people and I would do it to help anyone out. I know how much it sucks to be out of work for so long and I'd help a person if I could.
I was on Twitter a whopping five minutes when I realized it just wasn't for me.
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They also need to get rid of the spammers. I don't know how many times I've blocked Britney or Shelly Ryan. Anyone that's on Twitter knows who I mean. Then there's the strangers who retweet your stuff and aren't even your followers, but are doing it to spam.
They also need to get rid of the spammers. I don't know how many times I've blocked Britney or Shelly Ryan. Anyone that's on Twitter knows who I mean. Then there's the strangers who retweet your stuff and aren't even your followers, but are doing it to spam.
That was the biggest complaint in forum chat the other night... it's a huge spam fest on twitter.
I dont know who Britney or Shelly Ryan are but i just googled it & the first page is complaints of them spamming twitter & myspace lol then i googled just Shelly Ryan and she is a scam spam it would seem... i am assuming Britney is a porn bot... I know that when i do check my twitter acct i have to delete a bunch of porn bots from following me.
They are getting rid of a bunch of things on Twitter soon. I read a list last week about 10 kinds of people you won't see on Twitter soon. Shelly Ryan's pic was on there. Well, that's not really "her" name. It's just a spammer someone makes up.
Cut my followers down as well as the people I follow back.. here are my latest Twinfluence stats:
daveincarthage's Rank: #4,431 (98%)
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Name: David Gridley
URL: A BubbleTweet From @daveincarthage - David Gridley
Location: SW Missouri
Bio: Tweeting from Carthage, MO!
Friends: 1,570
Followers: 1,753
2nd-order followers: 15,256,695
Velocity: 21,172 second-order followers/day
Social Capital: 8,703.2 +2.2 Very High
Centralization: 14.68% / 0.0 Average - Resilient
With me it depends, I have several accounts for different online concerns and one for me personally but I just don't keep up with following it or posting anymore. I think for some people it just clicks and others it doesn't.
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Hm, I welcome any retweets, whoever they're from.. it's all about exposure to me.
I still use Twitter but I also have my own niche micro-blogging sites that operate similarly to Twitter but are, IMHO, better than Twitter.. I use an opensource script called Sharetronix for my sites.
Sharetronix has many features & options that I think puts it a notch above Twitter. For example, I can edit, delete, and share my Sharetronix "tweets". I can add inline photos, links, videos, and files to my "tweets". Etc.
I can also monetize my links on the site, something I can't do on Twitter.
They also need to get rid of the spammers. I don't know how many times I've blocked Britney or Shelly Ryan. Anyone that's on Twitter knows who I mean. Then there's the strangers who retweet your stuff and aren't even your followers, but are doing it to spam.
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