1 Simple Tip To Decide Who To Follow On Twitter
Apr 02 2008 
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I’ve written quite a few posts on deciding who to follow on Twitter and deciding who to follow on FriendFeed. However, while writing all of this, another solution in making such decisions easier has always eluded me. I’ve yet to see it mentioned elsewhere either. Nevertheless, it brick slapped the mess out of me last night. So, here’s a huge tip to help you decide who to follow on Twitter, though you can also apply it to FriendFeed or any other social network for that matter.
I’d like to forewarn you that this tip works the best for those who already have a rather large following. It won’t really work at all if you know one’s really following you. You’ve been warned!
The Tip
Check your replies tab on the Twitter website.
Yesterday, I was going through my replies tab and noticed that quite a few people that replied to me with an awesome response or two. I happened not to be following quite a few of these people back. After clicking back through about 5 pages of Twitter replies, I ended up with 10+ followers! I would advise you to still check out their profiles after viewing their replies and see what else they are talking about because you’ll be getting messages that may have absolutely nothing to do with you once you follow them. You still want to keep the noise to a minimum regardless of the replies.
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Twitter didn't even make sense to me until the Replies tab. It just seemed like an endless feed of–honestly–other people's boring lives (even when I added all the Tech gods). My biggest tip is just to reply to people and ask them questions. ya dig. Straightup, just ask lots of relevant questions. It's easy if you're in the Web 2.0 space since we're all fanatics and just gravitate towards this stuff. Check out an article CMO did on why reaching Mavens and Taste-Makers like Web 2.0 Junkies is important:
http://www.faceyspacey.com/blog/index.php?/arch...
I swear, my Twitter life got easier when I finally gave in to Twitterfox. I used to forget about the replies tab and the DM link. Kinda hard to ignore those now with TF.
good tip! I do the same thing :)
btw, the blog show 0 comments but there were 2 already here, now 3 with mine…does is this a disqus issue? i just installed it too – that would be a bummer
Yeah! I'm there twice!
Lmao! That made me laugh so hard.
I'm not sure what the problem is with that. I just noticed it yesterday myself. I have to contact Disqus tech support about it. I'm assuming there's a WP code that I need to change in my template??
The rule I have been following is follow back everyone who follows me, even if I don't really know them, except….(a) when they are following a massive number of people but few are following back (SPAM ALERT) or (b) when their feed seems to be a massive number of personal comments rather than a mix of personal comments, and comments relevant to my diverse interests (its not that hard to get me interested in something!).
The reply tab is a good tip even though I don't have that many followers right now!
@elliottng
Everyone seems to twittering nowadays. It is so cool.
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