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Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by diego on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:05AM (#606897)
It's not how many people you follow, it's how many tweets they produce. If you follow 500 people who tweet on average once every couple of days, that's 250 tweets per day. I'm sure you read more than that on HN. Or you could fill up your daily attention quota with a few accounts like scobleizer, techcrunch, jasoncalacanis, etc.
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Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by axod on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:13AM (#606903)
Good point, but it's also the selection criteria that makes little sense to me. I can understand people actually thinking "Ah Stephen Fry says some witty things, I think I'll follow him". I can understand that - being interested in a specific 'celeb'.

But when you're following 500, how have you decided that each one is useful/valuable. How can you be interested in "everything" that "500 people" say? Surely at that sort of stage it's better to be interested in particular subjects/keywords/hashtags rather than people.

I don't think I'll ever understand TBH.

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Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by diego on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:48AM (#606960)
You don't have to be interested in everything they say. Twitter is asynchronous. These are people who may say something potentially interesting when you are online, and you may answer at that point.

One way to see it is that you are creating your own irc channel with 500 people that you choose.

There may be reasons to be interested in everything 500 people say. They could be your employees and you want to make sure you record everything they tweet. They could be your customers. There are many use cases out there that we can't think of.

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