Comments on: Twitter: making the cut

By: Bobbi Newman

Bobbi Newman — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:06:34 +0000

I will confess I’ve pretty much been following anyone who follows me as long as they don’t look like a spammer. I feel bad if I don’t, but then I realized that has made twitter useless for me and for them.

By: Curious Child

Curious Child — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:49:52 +0000

Bobbi, I just recently “weeded” my Twitter feed down too and I used basically the same methodology that you used. My problem with Twitter was that I was following so many people that I was missing out on real conversation and useful informtation. Granted, I don’t always put out librarian/archives/history related information but I do like to read what others have to offer. I don’t think paring down is a bad thing, you have to do what is most productive/useful for you.

By: tombrarian

tombrarian — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:36:05 +0000

When I get a new request from someone whose name I don’t recognize, I’ll look at their twitter friends. If I see a lot of people I already know and connect with, I’ll take that into consideration because that increases the chance that we will eventually cross paths.

I also take the number of people they subscribe to into consideration. If they subscribe to hundreds and hundreds of people, I’ll assume that they are just “collecting friends” and don’t have much intention of really connecting.

Now that I’m over 100 twitter friends, I’ve become more selective as to whom I add, which isn’t necessarily fair. I guess I should do some weeding myself.