After the deafeningly silent response I got to my last post, asking for Twitter followers and followees, I decided to take the bull by the horns and go and get my own Twitter friends.
I found a list of 300 (and growing) internet marketers at Marketing Pilgrim, and started following them.
Results?
Bear in mind that I did this today, my followers went from 9 to 24. I am also meeting a local SEO marketer for coffee next week who I met through Twitter.
Downside
The downside here is that there are a lot of tweets to read through. I am following 118 people, but I don’t know how the guys with over 1,000 friends cope.
Conclusion
I’m just trying to let it wash over me, soak it up, and hopefully pick up a few golden nuggets from the ocean of tweets.
But life is a bit like that. You wade through a whole pile of mundane crap every day, but all it takes is just one little piece of information to make all the difference.
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Rob Williams said
am April 2 2008 @ 9:25 pm
I’ll follow you
BTW, I know how you feel about the Twitter noise. I’ve been on for many months and I’m just now figuring out how to filter it better by using device updates. I explain it on my personal blog:
http://rob.orangejack.com/2008/03/31/device-updates-on-twitter/
Not meant to be link bait, just lazy.
Ehren Cheung said
am April 3 2008 @ 12:25 pm
I think the key to twitter is to take it slow — at least that has been my approach. I don’t like following too many people. The key to twitter is finding the right people who you like to follow because they act as “filters” to all the noise out there. Also keep in mind that you’re establishing relationships as well as developing your own voice. Following too many people just leads to noise (not always information) overload.
It’s sort of like blogging but way smaller and at an incredibly insane speed