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For fun, I logged into Twitter tonight and checked the followers page. To my great surprise, it seems as though about half of the people I thought I was following are not, so it’s an evening of re-syncing Twitter to follow friends old and new who I thought I was in sync with.
The scale of it almost makes me think that Twitter did a database rollback of some kind. Very strange.
I’m also taking the Chris Brogan philosophy of Twitter following, too. Unless you’re an obvious spambot, I’ll follow back whether or not I think you’ve got anything of value to say. This is the surest way to de-fuse the criticism that I follow some and not others (and yes, some people have actually said that!) – by devaluing my Twitterstream to near uselessness, I achieve equality of everyone’s voice. No one’s voice is greater than anyone else’s, because I can’t hear any of it. Not that I could anyway, with Twitter’s reliability being in the toilet lately.
Short summary: if you suddenly got a notice saying I was following you, this is why – re-syncing Twitter.
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So everyone gets an equal voice, but the Twitterstream becomes useless to you. So you don’t offend anyone this way, but how does this approach help you, exactly?
I’m sticking with my “Twitter-snob approach.” I follow back some of my followers, but not all. I want to stay away from a situation where the signal-to-noise ratio becomes nothing but noise.
So everyone gets an equal voice, but the Twitterstream becomes useless to you. So you don’t offend anyone this way, but how does this approach help you, exactly?
I’m sticking with my “Twitter-snob approach.” I follow back some of my followers, but not all. I want to stay away from a situation where the signal-to-noise ratio becomes nothing but noise.
Given how unreliable Twitter is, and how often it loses stuff, it’s kind of a moot point.
Given how unreliable Twitter is, and how often it loses stuff, it’s kind of a moot point.