Comments on: Why Twitter Might Sink?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:39:30 +0000

Only stinks if marketing to the youngins.

I rushed here so quickly to be the 5000th person, that my brain has stopped functioning. Am I making sense?

By: Zero 2 Hero | Follow Me 2 Plz?? No WAI

Zero 2 Hero | Follow Me 2 Plz?? No WAI — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:49:31 +0000

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By: Kim Brown Cain

Kim Brown Cain — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:07:53 +0000

Your post is right on target. I’m a newbie, but I quickly noticed that many of the people following me had thousands of followers, though their tweets said the same thing over & over about some vitamin or sex video, or whatever. I had no interest in following them, as it would have been like saying, “Yes, I LOVE those junk coupons that are in my mailbox day after day, wasting tons of trees. Please send more”. NOT. I also realized that all those “followers” had to be bogus because I don’t know ANYONE who says they love junk mail! It’s made me wonder if Twitter will be worth my time to genuinely promote my upcoming novel & to engage in real quickie communication with real, interesting people. None of those mass follow types are going to care about my genuine communications — why would they? — they don’t care about their own form of communication?
Thanks for your post. Keep up the good work!

By: Mike Schumacher

Mike Schumacher — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:51:59 +0000

I believe most people haven’t consciously determined what Twitter means to them. For some it’s a matter of promoting what they do, be it a business, their blog, or just themselves. Sometimes it’s for a conversation and to keep up with friends. Sometimes it really is a microblog. I think that the flexibility of Twitter to do this makes it so great. Unfortunately this also means that as Twitter gains more mainstream popularity, the noise ratio is only going to increase as the common user may not put any significant thought on why they use Twitter.

In all of this I had to determine for myself how to best use Twitter. That determination made it easier to me to determine who to follow and who not to. In fact, I formed a policy of who I follow and who I don’t. I have it posted on my Web site so it’s public knowledge. That way if someone reads my site after following me (or the other way around), they know what to expect when it comes to following me. It’s kept my sanity so far without having to worry about follower counts that may be ultimately skewed.

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:35:35 +0000

New to your blog (found it while researching thesis designers) and I’m fairly new to Twitter as well. I made a tweet a few days ago about this same subject. I only have a little over 100 followers and about 30 fewer that I follow. I try to look through bios and see if the people I follow are likely to offer anything of interest or value. I’m finding that all I’m getting are IMers posting links. I started with the intent of documenting my own journey in IM and developing some hopefully helpful relationships along the way. But I don’t find all the links and wild claims to be appealing at all. I like the idea of separate personal and business accounts, that seems to work well on FB. I think I will retwink…I mean rethink my approach to Twitter. Thanks for not being afraid to question the validity of something that is getting so much positive press. I think you are right track with this question.

Keith “Hoglanta” Hogsed

By: Guttu

Guttu — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:29:45 +0000

Twitter is more of spam now. But it will improve and every service face such problems. Twitter will never sink for sure. Who has time to write a full post?? I’ll rather use 140 characters and be lazy. That’s most of the budding bloggers will think.
I don’t follow all who follow me. I carefully choose them. For me twitter is food for my knowledge. I cannot read all tweets but since I follow those who interest me, I end up fulfill my hunger.

Now.. Would you like to follow me?
http://twitter.com/TheNonsenseBlog
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By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:05:34 +0000

The way you described, that is how I treat my personal account. I only follow those who can provide value to me. However, on the Twitter for Blogussion I do use some strategies where I target my audience of those who use WordPress and blog on it, and do a variety of things (include a technique you listed) to build my Twitter audience and promote my content.
Alex´s last blog ..Let Me Critique Your Thesis Customization — 30 Days Only

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:01:23 +0000

I think if I remember right, you commented here that you used Twitter to just chat regularly with other people. Looking at Twitter now, seeing someone using it as an instant messenger seems unlikely! I agree, it has become a marketing tool rather than a place to make friends. But that's not to say you can't make friends from there still. I would be interested in seeing Twitter just be a place to actually meet friends, but it's just proven to be such a hit marketing tool, I can't even avoid labeling it as that myself. .-= Alex´s last blog ..Let Me Critique Your Thesis Customization - 30 Days Only =-.

By: Marcell

Marcell — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:21:04 +0000

I only follow people that I know will have good and useful updates.

I don’t twitter is being abuse because you can block anyone you do not know but hey we all have different opinions. Great Post!
Marcell´s last blog ..How To Upgrade WordPress Manually

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:30:50 +0000

Twitter, although created for the masses, I think is really only good for businesses, celebrities, and website owners. For everyone else, Facebook is loads better: You don’t have lots of random people following you, and you wants to deal with anyone but their real-life friends online anyway?

I imagine people WOULD read their favorite celebrity’s thoughts on Twitter. However, for the most part, I figure Twitter is really only a good tool for businesses or website owners trying to reach other businesses or website owners, plus a limited tech-savvy audience. It has been said before– Twitter is a GREAT networking tool. But I don’t see a lot of future potential beyond that.

I don’t use Twitter, not because I don’t think it’s a great tool, but more because I don’t think my audience is there. My blog, Teen Lawn Care, is geared more to people who are less likely to use Twitter. It isn’t geared toward the tech-savvy population.

Will Twitter sink? I don’t think so, but I think it will probably morph into something directed less at the masses and more at my before-stated entities (celebrities, website owners, businesses).

Just a few of my thoughts on the subject
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