The Gaming Of Twitter Exposed

JaneG

3/11/2009 12:28 AM UTC

A lot of people with many followers don't even know who their followers are, or anything at all about them. It's as though they are interested in numbers, not people. And, I know many Twitterers ARE interested mostly in numbers, and I think that's twisted somehow.

JaneG

3/11/2009 12:26 AM UTC

This is not to say that businesses shouldn't Twitter; I think they SHOULD! But there is a right and wrong way to go about it.

JaneG

3/11/2009 12:25 AM UTC

I get "follow requests" from people,too, who don't have a personal website or blog. Sometimes, they have nothing of themselves on the web at all, and sometimes all they have is a business site. I am more interested in other bloggers, not some guy's attempt to sell me something.

JaneG

3/11/2009 12:23 AM UTC

I think part of it is that people see the crowd following someone and assume that someone is on his/her way to the cool kids' table and everybody wants to sit there with them. But sometimes, the person isn't heading to the cool kids' table; they're just the first lemming in the line.

JaneG

3/11/2009 12:20 AM UTC

For some people, yes, it does. But people who KNOW, need to see what kind of followers you've got. Also, which followers you're following back. I don't block anyone, but I've got a lot of followers who aren't even "people;" they're only banks, salesmen, and guys who want to pimp their e-book. They follow me, but I don't follow them.

JaneG

3/10/2009 11:59 PM UTC

Timely topic, Jim. Excellent.