Comments on: Keeping Your Twitter Community Healthy

By: John Herrington

John Herrington — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:21:07 +0000

Hi Mack- Interesting to know about 20 tweets per request and 70 requests per hour. That definitely presents a problem when you have a base like you do. One other site I use, that you probably know of is, http://terraminds.com/twitter/ I've found this to be extremely helpful in tracking down replies before I started using Twhirl.

By: John Guise

John Guise — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:06:42 +0000

Thanks for the tips Mack. I’ve stopped using Twitter for awhile due to being simply too busy again. I think you’ve given me a better tool to help manage things.
J.

By: mack collier

mack collier — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:15:55 +0000

Tanja what I am finding is that many of the people I am following on Twitter, are people I ‘met’ on Twitter. Either I had heard of them and wanted to follow them, or more likely they are people that I saw many of my friends following and talking to. The people I knew from say other blogs before I joined Twitter, is now a small portion.
I think when you start out and aren’t following anyone, you can pretty much add whoever you want. But after a while and there’s so many tweets coming at you, you have to decide if you still want to keep the guy/gal that doesn’t follow you and therefore never talks ‘to’ you. As I said, I’m finding now that the conversations happening in my Twitter stream are more relevant to me, because a higher percentage of the tweets are coming from people I know and am following.
It’s like any social tool, you have to find your own comfort zone with how you use it.

By: Dave Weinberg

Dave Weinberg — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:56:16 +0000

Great post. I have been considering upping my usage of Twitter and I think you (and the twitter article in one the mags I read) really have given me a push forward. Dave Weinberg http://Jewneric.com http://www.geniusrcket.com

By: Tanja

Tanja — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:43:59 +0000

thanks, I will try Twitter Karma! I was wondering about this myself, adding people left and right doesn’t automatically improve Twitter. To bad really, that means you might get stuck in the same circle of people over and over again…