Deciding Who To Follow On Twitter

DecisionsWith the relative success of a few of my posts relating to Twitter, FriendFeed, and RSSmeme (see ‘Personal Picks’ in the sidebar), has come the influx of Twitter followers, which I have no complaints about. However, I’m a pretty picky person when it comes to following people back. I don’t mean to be rude, but just because I’m relevant to you doesn’t necessarily mean you’re relevant to me.

Decisions, Decisions

Here are a few rules that I go by when deciding whether or not to follow someone back or follow anyone at all:

Just Follow Everyone, Corvida!

Yeah right! This is a no-no because I have over 150+ followers and it’s continuously growing. I want to keep my tweets relevant to my interest. Lately, I’ve been getting as many as 10 email notifications a day regarding someone new following me on Twitter. If I followed everyone, I’m sure the signal-to-noise ratio that I have now (and would love to maintain) would get out of control.

With that comes the question, how do you decide who to follow on Twitter? Leave your thoughts, comments, and suggestions in the comment section below!


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    I follow based on:

    What they have tweeted about over the last few days.... does it interest me to know more.
    Follower/following ratio -- more interested in people being selective about why they follow me (often I can tell who they via, for example)
    They've been tweeting interesting comments to someone I know
    I know them or follow their blog (like you!)

    Don't follow automatically if:
    they are only promoting a product
    they have no personal information available -- a company news bot for example
 

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