Tweet to Who?
RoOkin follows 133, and has 155 followers, with 2598 updates. Tues 16th March 1:51pm
I have a strange relationship with Twitter. It is a kind of love/hate relationship. I love that its only 140 characters and that it is full of interesting people. It is the social networking/blogging site that I use the most. Far more than any blog. Even facebook doesnt really get a look in anymore and as for my MySpace, It died a death a long time ago. There is something about twitter being short & sweet that appeals to me. I am not really one with words and so the status update style really works for me, however finding something interesting to tweet about is another thing. I dont know whether I just ate hula hoops for lunch is really an appealing read or not? Yeah, Its probably not but then at least its something, rather than nothing. This is where I get to what I hate about Twitter, and there isnt many things, but one of the things that really bug me are bots. I hate bots! Bots and fake celebrity accounts which I guess I could class as bots. For example I once had Peter Jackson following me Really? Peter Jackson, the famous director of King Kong and The Lord of The Rings trilogy really wanted to know what I was getting up to? I also got my account hacked a few months ago and it was the first time I have ever had an account of mine hacked. Days later my facebook was hacked, I assume these incidents were related as at the time both my Facebook and Twitter accounts had the same password.
At this moment I follow 133 people and have 155 followers. Now, I am always on the look out for more interesting people to follow but at the same time I do not follow back everyone that follows me. I have my own little list of rules of who I follow. I say rules, its more of a guidline which goes something like this.
Follow Local People.
If I see an account for someone who lives near me I am more likely to follow them because I am more likely to relate to their tweets.
Not Just a Pretty Face.
I tend to steer clear of girls (or guys) who have model looks in their profile pic. I will then assume the picture is not of them and therefore they are a bot or its just a fake account. I am the same if they have no profile pic. If they have no profile pic and follow 2384 people (see below) then I will assume its just a bot. If you have the time to follow lots of people then why not find the time to sort out a profile pic? However I am fine with random artistic imagines as a profile pic. In fact I find them intriguing.
Not too many.
If someone follows 3240234 people and only has 29 followers I assume they are just a bot and wont follow them back.
Cat got your tongue?
I have found a few people I know on twitter but they have never posted anything, so I just assume that they joined Twitter to see what all the fuss is about and then decided that Twitter wasnt for them. I have also had people following me who have never posted anything so I dont see the point of following them back. Whats the point of following someone if they never tweet? I will also more likely follow someone who will reply to my tweets.
This little guide has served me well so far. Granted celebrities and people I know in person or I know from other website or communities dont really fall into this list. However I dont tend to follow a lot of celebs, but the celebs I do follow, I follow because I will always be interested in what they have to say, even if I never interact with them. I have tweeted the odd celeb and got a reply. Nothing like receiving a tweet from Kevin Smith or Dave Gorman to put me in a good mood and brighten up my day.
RoOkin follows 133, and has 155 followers, with 2598 updates. Tues 16th March 1:51pm
I have a strange relationship with Twitter. It is a kind of love/hate relationship. I love that its only 140 characters and that it is full of interesting people. It is the social networking/blogging site that I use the most. Far more than any blog. Even facebook doesnt really get a look in anymore and as for my MySpace, It died a death a long time ago. There is something about twitter being short & sweet that appeals to me. I am not really one with words and so the status update style really works for me, however finding something interesting to tweet about is another thing. I dont know whether I just ate hula hoops for lunch is really an appealing read or not? Yeah, Its probably not but then at least its something, rather than nothing. This is where I get to what I hate about Twitter, and there isnt many things, but one of the things that really bug me are bots. I hate bots! Bots and fake celebrity accounts which I guess I could class as bots. For example I once had Peter Jackson following me Really? Peter Jackson, the famous director of King Kong and The Lord of The Rings trilogy really wanted to know what I was getting up to? I also got my account hacked a few months ago and it was the first time I have ever had an account of mine hacked. Days later my facebook was hacked, I assume these incidents were related as at the time both my Facebook and Twitter accounts had the same password.
At this moment I follow 133 people and have 155 followers. Now, I am always on the look out for more interesting people to follow but at the same time I do not follow back everyone that follows me. I have my own little list of rules of who I follow. I say rules, its more of a guidline which goes something like this.
Follow Local People.
If I see an account for someone who lives near me I am more likely to follow them because I am more likely to relate to their tweets.
Not Just a Pretty Face.
I tend to steer clear of girls (or guys) who have model looks in their profile pic. I will then assume the picture is not of them and therefore they are a bot or its just a fake account. I am the same if they have no profile pic. If they have no profile pic and follow 2384 people (see below) then I will assume its just a bot. If you have the time to follow lots of people then why not find the time to sort out a profile pic? However I am fine with random artistic imagines as a profile pic. In fact I find them intriguing.
Not too many.
If someone follows 3240234 people and only has 29 followers I assume they are just a bot and wont follow them back.
Cat got your tongue?
I have found a few people I know on twitter but they have never posted anything, so I just assume that they joined Twitter to see what all the fuss is about and then decided that Twitter wasnt for them. I have also had people following me who have never posted anything so I dont see the point of following them back. Whats the point of following someone if they never tweet? I will also more likely follow someone who will reply to my tweets.
This little guide has served me well so far. Granted celebrities and people I know in person or I know from other website or communities dont really fall into this list. However I dont tend to follow a lot of celebs, but the celebs I do follow, I follow because I will always be interested in what they have to say, even if I never interact with them. I have tweeted the odd celeb and got a reply. Nothing like receiving a tweet from Kevin Smith or Dave Gorman to put me in a good mood and brighten up my day.
I use it as my gripe and moan site. Facebook i've taken the decision to only really use for my social life now. And SG well i'm not sure just yet.