Q. whom I should follow on Twitter?

I can give you an idea of who I *think* you might want to follow 🙂 but that’s not the same thing. There’s social media “experts”, VCs and Angels, technologists, entrepreneurs and they’re mixed with stay-at-home mums and make-up fanatics. There’s plenty of arseholes too – but then it’s the Internet 🙂 I’ve stopped following … Continue reading “Q. whom I should follow on Twitter?”

I can give you an idea of who I *think* you might want to follow 🙂 but that’s not the same thing.

There’s social media “experts”, VCs and Angels, technologists, entrepreneurs and they’re mixed with stay-at-home mums and make-up fanatics. There’s plenty of arseholes too – but then it’s the Internet 🙂

I’ve stopped following most of the “A listers” like Guy Kawasaki, Robert Scoble – because they

a) follow too many people and therefore they would never hear you
b) constantly babble which means you miss good stuff from others
c) are wrapped in their own ego bubble.

I still follow Michael Arrington/TechCrunch because he’s very real – he only follows 590 people but is followed by 203000 people. Compare that to Scoble who follows 75000 people and is followed by 68000. If you follow too many people then you’ll be labelled as a spammer.

With Twitter, the emphasis is on listening, not talking. Who do you want to hear from?

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0 thoughts on “Q. whom I should follow on Twitter?”

  1. 2 categories for me. Interesting techies and interesting people (my definitions of interesting in both cases). People with something a bit different / quirky to say and not just reciting the news.

    I’ll tend to add people based on gut feel, then remove those who are boring me. If only real life was as easy 🙂

    @surfsofa

  2. I am still a complete newb to twitter so haven’t quite got how the whole thing works.

    I had to bin RSS readers from my daily life a few years back because I never got anything done, and am beginning to think the same about Twitter.

    It seems to me that there are different types of twitterati. There are those who follow all their followers, some who follow only some of their followers and others who follow no-one.

    As different people use twitter as different things in their workflow, it makes it difficult to know if you should follow someone.

    I’m using a suck-it-and-see approach, following people I think might be interesting, and seeing what happens.

    @cimota – you can add stay-at-home-dads to your list, unless I was already in the list as an arsehole 😛

  3. My follow list has slowed – simply because I think I’ve gotten most of the interesting folk. Always new people coming online though so it is still growing.

    I follow most of my followers. It depends if there’s anything on their front page which is interesting. If not, I don’t bother. I’m not going to dig deep. Twitter is a river – anything from yesterday is gone…

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