Comments on: How do you ‘follow’ 2500 people on Twitter?

By: “Follow, Then Filter”: from information stream to delta | Online Journalism Blog

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:43:50 +0000

[...] we were increasingly consuming information as a stream. Last January I blogged along those lines on why and how I followed 2,500 people on Twitter – why? I dip in and out rather than expecting to read everything. How? I used filters and [...]

By: Stephen West

Stephen West — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:22:52 +0000

i think that having a limit on followers is bad, i have reached my 2,000 followers limit and therefore cant folloe any more people, i am getting other people follow me and because i cant follow them back they anre unfollowing me, if you could make the first limit higher or remove limits that would be amazing but if you cant then could you explane to me how i can get more followers with out having to remove followers or having to follow anyone….
thanx stephen, 17

By: Chie

Chie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:29:58 +0000

I think it all depends on what you use Twitter for. I don’t agree there should be a “cap”, but it is up to individuals if they want to follow a policy of not “over-following” so they don’t get overwhelmed. A lot of people I follow, and even regularly engage with, won’t follow me back because they want to restrict to following only people they know, and that’s fine by me; I don’t take it personally. The only annoying part of that is I can’t ever DM them.

I find Seesmic more user-friendly than TweetDeck so I stick with it. At the time of writing I’m following about 400 people – not too many, but enough. To make tweet management easier, I split them into 10+ categories and I tend to read my tweets by category.

My top category by far (the one with highest number o tweeps) is “journalists”, which actually includes journalists, editors, writers, copywriters, PR people,bloggers, etc, because I want to know what’s going on in the industry I’m interested in. The “journos” column is permanently up on my Seesmic Desktop as I check it throughout the day. But I also have lists of “friends” (closest tweeps),”publishing” people,”inspirational” people, “eco” people…etc, and I catch up on their tweets by list.

On a very busy day I have to prioritise, so I may only glance over “journos” and “friends”. On calmer days, I will check each list one by one.

Some people get listed in two different categories, whereas others don’t get listed at all and stay in the “general” stream, which I glance at in-between scanning the journos’ tweets.

I also have a handful of “faves” – people I KNOW tweet gems all the time…. (You are one of them. ) So if I haven’t been online for a few days, I’ll specifically check those people’s tweets to see if I’ve missed anything I shouldn’t have.

I don’t know if I’ll ever dare follow people in their thousands, but, for now, the method above is working for me. Thank goodness the Web view of Twitter now allows you to put people in lists as well. I used to work as a PA, so catogorising, prioritising, etc is my natural way to organise my work.

By: Ligações do dia : Re-Formar

Ligações do dia : Re-Formar — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:30:47 +0000

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By: @juliandobson

@juliandobson — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:58:11 +0000

The great thing about Twitter is that you can use it in so many different ways – it merges public and private, work and leisure in a very intuitive fashion. Does it matter how many people you follow? Not really. What works for me is to follow a reasonable crowd of people, and from those select a group using Tweetdeck whose tweets I really don’t want to miss. That way I get to see what the people I particularly value are saying, but get a flavour of what the others are doing too.

By: Pt

Pt — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:49:16 +0000

But honestly, is tweeting really about the numbers? Maybe. I think the number of followers may be a source people use to determine who they follow, but of everyone I follow, I don’t have time to read what they twitter about. I glance once in a while, but honestly – there is a part of me that thinks that if a person spends a bunch of time tweeting, they will probably hit diminishing returns rather rapidly. How many people are really reading what you are tweeing, if you are not one of the already established starts before you tweeted? I think businesses should be in the twittershpere, but I dont think that very many can actually get much out of it. Its become a “me-too” strategy. Thoughts?

By: Two approaches to handling information overload and why they are both wrong, and right. : Kasper Sørensen

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:50:10 +0000

[...] sources are the most valuable, you should have quick access to all of them. Even if you follow 2500 people on twitter, you simply need 1 group with the 50 most important and you have cut noise significantly. You can [...]

By: @yacht_charters

@yacht_charters — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:47:18 +0000

I was grateful for the education (from @bobgarrett) that the way to follow more than 2000 people on twitter is to get 1800 followers, yourself. Once you get that many, you can again follow more than 200 people. Who knew!

By: Topeljungle

Topeljungle — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:16:16 +0000

Nice post! very interesting topic. keep on posting.

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