Comments on: how I manage my Twitter world: process & results

By: greedradio

greedradio — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:35:02 +0000

love it, best write up I've seen

By: Michael J. Pratt

Michael J. Pratt — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:47:24 +0000

Great tips! I am learning more every day. Thanks.

By: Michael J. Pratt

Michael J. Pratt — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:47:24 +0000

Great tips! I am learning more every day. Thanks.

By: Michael J. Pratt

Michael J. Pratt — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:43:15 +0000

Aaron – I'd be lying if I told you I was unaffected by the tug of wanting a high follower count, who doesn't? Like you, I got into Twitter fairly early and honed my process when @scobleizer only had 1000! It was easy then to do it one at a time and I just stuck with it.

Thank you for your kind words and feedback. Enjoy SXSW. I'm there next year, I swear!

By: Aaron Strout

Aaron Strout — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:52:07 +0000

Mike - great thinking around how to most effectively use Twitter. I could definitely stand to follow your advice. Up until now, I've been more of a "you follow me, I follow you" kind of approach but there is a part of me that wishes I was as diligent as you are in your follow back process.

I do like your thoughts on what you get out of Twitter (it can be tiring to keep up with at times but in the end, it's worth it in spades). Also, thanks for the shout out. I am honored to be one of the people that someone as smart, funny and passionate as you pays attention to.I can easily say that the same is true about you.

Best,
Aaron | @aaronstrout

By: Donna McAleer

Donna McAleer — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:27:50 +0000

Mike offers sage advice regarding Twitter. It is a powerful platform with instantaneous global reach. The "pay it forward" principle is a good staring point for those new to tweeting.

One of the many benefits of twitter is research on any topic and connection to thought leaders.

BTW: I love the gui for tweetdeck

You can follow me here http://twitter.com/donnamcaleer

By: Michael J. Pratt

Michael J. Pratt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:21:51 +0000

I have to stop myself from sending snarky sarcastic messages to those who send canned and cheesy auto-DM's. It's maddening.

By: Michelle Madhok

Michelle Madhok — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:05:11 +0000

I unfollow anyone who tries to pitch me in a Direct Message – annoying. @shefinds

By: Michael J. Pratt

Michael J. Pratt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:54:41 +0000

I so so want to use Tweet Deck but (silly reason) I can't configure the colors the way I like them (like Twitterific) and it only shows user names not real names. If Twitterific had groups (fail!) then I would probably use your method.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:38:58 +0000

Mike, thanks for a thoughtful and informative post. I too despair at number of people who seem to be in a race to reach a certain number of subscribers. I'm not sure what they hope to accomplish by having people with no interest in what they do following them.

I like your idea of “culling the herd” but I take a slightly different approach. I'm using Tweet Deck and have set up a group called “people I like to hear from” and those are the tweets I actually follow. I check out the All Friends stream from time to time and when I see someone who I find interesting they are added to the group. Not a perfect solution, but it's been working for me.