May 12, 2009
Having Twitter followers does not mean people are listening to you: A real-life example
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Danny Glover is nearing 200,000 Twitter followers.
4 of his 5 updates say that people should follow @politicalrap.
Fewer than 650 have.
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How driven people are to have heaps of followers, even if they know almost all their followers won’t care about anything they say is very strange. What’s the point?
Just checked and ALL 5 of his updates point you there. One is just being sneaky with one of those teenyweeny urls.
I am noticing on Twitter that the more followers people have, the less interesting they get, a la Stephen Fry. (Here in England it is sacrilege to shoot down the Fry, so I fully expect the police to burst through the window as soon as I click ‘submit’. Farewell.)
Even less now….631..haha lol..
What aggravates me just about more than anything on Twitter is that the majority of the people who follow me are advertising something.
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The posting is embedded in this article on Twitter.
http://www.katu.com/news/44629877.html
I advertise my blog every once in a blue twitter. Other times I am like most of you and speak pointless updates into the nothingness void where some think followers reside.
Sounds to me like @mrdannyglover is actually @politicalrap in disguise. This is happening all the time now.
Also, huge difference between listening and obeying, huh? :)
When Twitter becomes a popularity contest and a marketing engine, it ceases to be capable of remaining the crucible for the magic that makes it a successful web venture.
Twitter is, on its face, completely stupid. And the way many people use it to micro-blog their daily life, is also stupid.
But it is a brilliant way to generation conversation and discussion. Its lousy at sustaining those conversations, but great at starting them.
But you can’t start a conversation with 1,000 people, let alone 200,000.
And while it may be possible to start a conversation here and there around something you want to market, if that’s all you ever try to start conversations about, you’re going to get ignored eventually.
The smaller the number of Twitter-followers, the more intrigued I am about the Tweeter. They are usually more interesting. Present company excluded.
Wow, Jim Marks, is your Twitter alias SourGrapes? :)
I only have 13 Twitter followers.
I still haven’t quite found my niche or purpose with Twitter…I quickly got bored of tweeting about my lunch habits.
I am turned off by the celebrity twitterers who race to accumulate ever growing numbers of drones followers. A.K. and O.W. stand out in my mind for this.
I’m also turned off by people who are just using the service as a means to advertise their blog/business/website. I block them if I see they never post anything but advertisements.
That said, Twitter can be a great resource, however. For instance, I have friends on Twitter who have websites about the Android operating system, which is what my G1 cellphone runs. I had some trouble with something I was doing, and just a few tweets netted me specific, helpful replies that got me over the hump. Twitter is brilliant for such things.
I experienced something similar when I had trouble with a WordPress issue. Because a Twitter friend retweeted my problem, within a half hour’s time, I had people from all over the country offering help. Some even gave me their phone numbers and invited me to call so they could walk me through the steps I needed to take to correct the issue.
I think Twitter’s success on a personal level all depends on how you use it.
LOL…that’s hysterical. Too bad he feels so important. Aren’t we all who are on twitter, facebook etc. so lame? Nobody really cares what you are doing now! What a waste of time! And I am one of them, so I’m talking about myself here…but I only have 2 followers on twitter, so I guess that says it all. This blog is the only place I actually want to hear what everyone says. Thanks. As for the rest of the noise out there, we truly are going “down in flames,” Reliant K.
ha ha ha. Half of the people that follow me are probably only advertising their website/blog. Half of them have either given up on twitter or don’t understand it. The half that do follow me sensible are either sleeping on the otherside of the planet or working.