Comments on: How to Actually Make Twitter Interesting Again

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:34:01 +0000

Vera, I use the same approach. Follower count doesn’t mean nearly as much as what they are saying. Thanks for adding your thoughts to this post.

By: veraFBirkenbihl

veraFBirkenbihl — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:00:32 +0000

i regularly look at RETWEETS bec. here i can read whom i do not follow. if interested i go to their profil-page and read at least 30 tweets. then i decide to follow. i do not look at how many followers there are, only for content, style, philosophy, values, language. i have found about 30 people so far whom i would never have “run into” normally. it’s research but fun.
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By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:43:29 +0000

Have invested the time, have put the people I like first, and it’s still a waste of time.

By: John Bredehoft

John Bredehoft — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:53:33 +0000

I love the cell phone analogy!

Another thing to do is look for tweets that are interesting, and then see who tweeted them.
.-= John Bredehoft´s last blog ..Standards do not mean high quality – they simply mean a standard for quality =-.

By: Alex Jones (@BaldMan)

Alex Jones (@BaldMan) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:42:11 +0000

Well put Michelle. Like any tool, form of communication or relationship,Twitter is what you put into it. Often those who don’t “get it” haven’t invested the time, which isn’t a critique, as they may have higher priorities, but I think it’s fair.

It’s hard to hit an “Ah ha!” moment if you’re not invested.
.-= Alex Jones (@BaldMan)´s last blog ..Status Updates – The Ties that Bind =-.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:40:56 +0000

First let me say thank you for giving me a way to explain this to the friends I have who don’t get it. The cell phone analogy is perfect.
But twitter still has issues with noise and spam. I wish twitter would publish reports on the amount of spam they’re preventing and removing as I think it would be interesting to see that sort of data and how spammers are using things like trending topics and news items to try to bait users.