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Alan Mairson — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:20:32 -0000

Belated thanks for your reply, Robert.

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xaml — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:41:14 -0000

@Alexis Martin Neely: "You've made mass unfollowing socially acceptable", "I suppose they aren't people that mattered". See, I think you're an idiot. So in the digital world, individuals don't matter? That would be in contrast to Scoble, quote "I only follow important people". Fucking dumbsack! The arrogance of what is falsely labeled "social network" couldn't in fact be less selfish. "Social" is not "society", even if your fucking lead bloggers keep on pushing it.

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HanhDBrown — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:54:44 -0000

I agree! I am going to take your advice .. it is about the quality not the quantity. Too much noise is allot of clutter in life which is a huge distraction. I'd bet you are more productive with your time and whom you really care to know about"what is going on"

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iget2work — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:58:12 -0000

Thanks for pointing me to this 'article'! I see your thought process.

To answer your questions above:
I'm choosing to follow everyone back except porn stuff. (No, I'm not a prude but don't really want it w/my morning coffee! hehe) Twitter gives me a sense of what's happening with all kinds of people, including the annoying ones who tweet about forex and making a zillion dollars by giving them 39.95! I like to see the ratio of BS to gold. I use tweetdeck (thanks to one of your videos) to let the stream flow by. The handful of people I actually know, I have sorted out for special viewing. Twitter, so far, is not too noisy for me. What i DO like, is an occasional deeper conversation (which you said on a panel somewhere!) ... which i can get either via e mail or, be-still my heart, the old-fashioned phone! My approach re: Twitter is the same now as it was when I started. I suppose if the flow went by so fast, I might change my mind, but I think there is a feature in tweetdeck where you can slow down the update of 'all friends' so you can actually read a thing or two.

What I like is an occasional surprise ... like when I think a tweeter is boring and then all of a sudden they throw something out that amuses me or interests me. I have a site devoted to 'work' http://www.iget2work.com but I tweet all kinds of things because I pitch tv shows, work with foster kids and RT things I like in the world. Thus, I have a large number of followers devoted to jobsearch but i also have followers that are entrepreneurs, IT geeks, moms, dog lovers and comedy peeps cuz of my bg in comedy shows. I find it invigorating to meet people I'd NEVER probably meet in real life and Twitter has helped a few people find my site who seem to be thankful for what we're doing.

Your videos have helped me understand a lot and you were the one I looked to in the beginning for answers. So thanks for that and keep up the amazing work you do!

Best to you, Robert.
Sue

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suzyinhollywood — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:50:10 -0000

I'm smart. Apparently smarter than you. I don't twitter and thus don't waste time thinking about such menial and ridiculous items like unfollowing a person eating peanut butter sandwiches.

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slippylane — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:15:43 -0000

Nobody unfollows or blocks The Bloggess. Except you, and William Shatner.

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James — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:43:08 -0000

You are SO not worth reading. *unsubscribe*.

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Paul Chaney — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:36:32 -0000

I'm with you Steven. Some people make an Olympic sport out of criticizing Robert. I ask, where were they when he was setting trends and breaking new ground. And to think that he's received little credit for his evangelism of Friendfeed (I mean, he put them on the map) is incredulous.

Yea, I'm a fan of Scoble, no doubt. Unapologetically so.

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George Siosi Samuels — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:26:14 -0000

Great stuff! I think these sort of things happen when young, online applications - or should I say their users - reach their next level of maturity. I'll probably end up doing the same soon enough!

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Jesse Stay — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:27:06 -0000

minou, I think Twitter has made it clear that they are referring to the process of quickly following and unfollowing people in rapid succession. They said on the developers list that bulk unfollowing is perfectly acceptable. If accounts are getting suspended it's not because of this.

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Jeffrey Paul — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:30:49 -0000

I've been going through and thinning out my following list as well, relatively painful but totally worth it to get a better spam-free twitter conversation.

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David Spark — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:15:59 -0000

Hey Robert, I was actually always amazed that anyone could follow more than 1000 people. How do you do it? And then when I talked to those people I realized that they didn't really follow all those people, they were just being polite by following them back, which I don't think is necessary. In many cases, those people who had a crazy high following account just had a search on their own name and were only reading tweets that were talking about them.

I'm now at the point where I feel I need to follow more people because I feel my friends tweets are getting really stale. :)

BTW, I think you might be interested in this post I wrote, "My personal Twitter policy. What's yours?" http://snurl.com/plnh4

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Bernard — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:08:50 -0000

I delete people who show up too many times a day regardless of content. I can only digest so much of this stuff...

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Scobleizer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:49:52 -0000

I just ran SocialToo. I didn't even know that unfollowing everyone is against the rules.

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minou30 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:29:12 -0000

Twitter recently started to suspend accounts that bulk unfollow. How were you able to do this without having your accounts suspended?

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Justin J. Bartz — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:32:27 -0000

This is a great approach you're taking to minimizing the "clutter" on Twitter. Fortunately, it's one that I thought about and planned before getting to that level. On any social networking website, many people (to increase their "reach" or their "marketability") want as many "friends" or "followers" as they can get, especially on Twitter. After Ashton Kutcher and CNN had a contest to see who would get the most followers, I think that's when marketers realized they must do the same, even though it's the wrong way of thinking. I don't follow anybody that I actually don't CARE about. This doesn't mean that I have to be friends with them, but it means that they have to have something relevant about them that I care about. This could be their short profile, or their recent Tweets, but it has to be there. Some companies like "following" somebody in return for a "follow" back, but why do that either? I don't want you to "follow" me if nothing I have to say is something you are interested in reading.

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John Button — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:06:16 -0000

Well, I'd have to say it works ... new to this stuff and almost missed that I had a 'Mention' - thanks to just setting up tweetdeck - that linked me here. So I certainly appreciate learning the ropes... Thanks!

When I saw your mention the first thought I had was about the 140 character limitation... no question it's hard to refer to something and express a thought about it and toss in a link in a short tweet... but using FriendFeed for the extended reference & comment seems like a good way to go ... if I had much to say...not alot - yet. ;o)

I've been using twitter mainly to learn about how all this tech & connectivity is being used and experimented with ...especially related to radio... but this stuff is taking on a life o fits own .. now I'm going to have to figure out how to weave FriendFeed into already overwhelmed world.

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Guest — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:38:18 -0000

It's August, shouldn't you be talking about 2011?

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Jennifer Jones — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:48:19 -0000

Robert, I think you make a lot of sense. I too have cut my followers recently and your strategy works as far as I am concerned.

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mattsmillion — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:56:59 -0000

I see your point but I wasnt one of the lucky people to be followed back...lol
twiter.com/mattsmillion

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simran — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:03:23 -0000

worth also following some #topics i believe... that way, even if a person is not on your list (say they tweet about various stuff, including their lunch, but also happen to be a very smart #security guru), when they tweet about #twitter-hack, you won't miss it :)

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garydale — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:13:29 -0000

I agree totally with what you said about the Twitter account being focused and not just some "fun guy" but at the same time if you look at who I follow you would think I am unfocused. Why? Because I use Twitter for work and also for information on the various things I am interested in. For instance, I follow lots of different people because I have very different interests. I like Arkansas Razorback and Arkansas State Red Wolf sports as well as Esperanto, the New Orleans Saints, rugby and history. I also follow people and news outlets who live in places that I used to live like Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Seattle, etc. And I follow people in all aspects of the book publishing industry for business purposes. So going by your above criteria you might not follow me.

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Maree — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:26:06 -0000

Why on earth would you follow 106,000 people?

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DJc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:44:55 -0000

Hate to rain on this love parade, but wouldn't an new 'inbox' account have achieved the same purpose without insulting 100,000 followers?

Tens of thousands entice people with a follow, then drop them - to make themselves look popular. I call them pho-celebs. Did you do the same?

I think you need to apologize to the nice fans at Twitter.

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Herschel — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:32:41 -0000

Robert,
I'm still hanging in with you on your blog. You got so lost with Friendfeed and Twitter in that by following you on FF and Twitter I got so much noise from your world so I had to disengage.

You do well to find new stuff, but I think you are like a child in a test-it-before you buy it toy store. Being on the bleeding edge you tend to overwhelm us slower folks.

You see, in my humble opinion I think you should slow down your video posts and post only the very best of what you see. You should then only post on the blog the very, very best of your experiences.

I think you got so lost with your audience and media that your message suffers. I long for the good ole days when you were at Microsoft. Your message was so tight and focused.

If anything, with your reputation, you should get a few other technology-finders, hire them, and have them cover sectors of the technology world with you. To be honest, all the technology sector is way to big for one man.

Hopefully you'll read this and find something of value as I've found your information in the past valuable.

Herschel