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Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

data recovery — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:48:51 -0000

I am very much surprised that how twitter users get many followers

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

David Korn — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:46:27 -0000

Excellent. Thank you. Helps a lot, stuff that I have been finding but you say it all. Have a nice day, dk

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Dave Z — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:01:41 -0000

He freely admits having 'Ghost' tweeters. I can see "real" celebrities doing that, but I'm sorry he doesn't warrant it. I'm not interested in what his staff has to say.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Dale Dietrich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:54:23 -0000

Really? That blows. I assumed he was using some kind of automated tool to generate most of them but I had assumed that he at least controlled the tool.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Dave Z — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:15:13 -0000

Another reason to dump Guy is that he doesn't write his own tweets. What kind of BS is that?

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Mari — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:38:57 -0000

Interesting, Dale. I use Twitter in almost exactly the same way. Minor differences here and there, but my philosophy is the same.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Rutger Blom — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:10:40 -0000

Yes they, unfortunately, require your Twitter password. I'm also waiting for the day Twitter's follower notifications get as good as Topify's.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Dale Dietrich — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:22:30 -0000

Good points all.

Comes down to a question of which pool do you want to swim in, today's pool or what 'may' become tomorrows pool. And, how much time you have. I'd like to have the time to play in your ff pool too. I just don't. The benefits of a possible better tomorrow on ff don't, for me, outweigh the reach of today's twitter.

But, as I said, I do hope ff catches on. I'll happily move there and be a smaller fish than I otherwise would have been, if/when that day comes.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Dale Dietrich — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:48:07 -0000

Thanks Rutger, I checked out the topify video. I like the idea but don't like handing over my twitter ID and email address to third parties. It wasn't clear from the front page if they also require my Twitter password. Do they?

I do wish Twitter's email notification did what Topify does - especially including the profile. I'm surprised Twitter's new follower notification emails don't do that.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Rutger Blom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:06:39 -0000

Thank you for an interesting article. I started using topify.com some months ago. It's a service that manages new followers on Twitter. Works very well for me. Might be something for you too.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Davis Freeberg — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:46:36 -0000

That's what I get for commenting while chowing down on a burger, the sentence should have been I know that I won't get to everY tweet . . . Not sure about the capabilities of Tweetdeck since I haven't tried it out, but even if you can filter Twitter in this way, it still wouldn't be a competition in my book.

FF's killer app is the ability to comment on other's posts and have that conversation aggregated into one place. With Twitter, it's hard to just insert yourself randomly into a conversation with someone you don't know. On FF it's one of the best parts of the community. It allows everyone to benefit from the conversation instead of just the person it was directed @

The relaxed character limits are nice too especially because I tend to struggle keeping things brief. Being able to add a photo, embed a video or include an .mp3 of a podcast w/ a post is also pretty cool and allows for a richer media experience.

I think that influence on FF works differently then Twitter. With Twitter people need to know you outside the service for your Tweets to have any kind of reach. If you're the CEO of a startup or some exec or celeb enough people want to communicate with you that a single tweet can create a huge wave. With FF it's different. The conversations bump back up to the top everytime you like or comment something, so social interaction is rewarded even more than fame.

As FF grows up, what I see happening is that these super popular people are going to serve as hubs where new users will congregate and get to know each other around their posts. The larger your network, the better you can bring people into a conversation around the topics you care about most. With FF being as young as it is, 100 followers today will be worth 2,000 in the future. For those who missed cementing their influence on Twitter early on, I see FF as a mulligan.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Dale Dietrich — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:20:41 -0000

Davis:

I don't understand your sentence "I know that I won't get to ever Tweet or FF post, so I don't try and use it that way"?

The native topic restriction function in friendfeed can be had in twitter apps like Tweetdeck no?

The biggest and most obvious benefit of ff over twitter is the size of posts. The 144 character limit in Twitter drives me nuts. And, as you point out, you can start really good threaded conversations in friendfeed that you can't in twitter. I wish friendfeed started first because it is clearly superior.

You also made a good point in your emails to me that you can have more influence as a thought leader in ff than you can in twitter. You can be a bigger fish in a smaller pond. I completely agree with that too.

I haven't abandoned ff for sure. It's just put aside for now. I still dabble there. I use it mostly as the live feed whenever I watch one of LeoLaporte's Twit.tv live video podcasts. It serves as a terrific interactive conversation with those watching the same video podcast live.

But, alas, I only have so much time in the day and, for now, my time is spent on Twitter.

Re: My first 100 Twitter Followers – My Twitter Thoughts and Experience to Date

Davis Freeberg — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:08:54 -0000

Great observations Dale, as you mentioned I left Twitter for FriendFeed so my perspective is a little bit different, but in defense of following a ton of people let me point out how I use Friendfeed. First, I know that I won't get to ever Tweet or FF post, so I don't try and use it that way. This is what my RSS reader is for. When it comes to FF or Tweets, I see it as a live snapshot on things that are happening within my social circle. This means that I don't see everything, but I do tend to see the breaking news. I've even noticed that FF has been breaking news faster than Bloomberg feeds, which is saying a lot considering that people pay Bloomberg $1,500 a month for the quick access to news.

Beyond what's just happening now, I also like the search only your friends feature on FF. This allows me to follow 1,000 people whose opinion that I care about, but then restrict it to topics that I'm only interested in. If someone in my lifestream has something to say about Apple, it will probably put me to sleep, but if someone is talking about TiVo or DivX, you can bet that I care very much about the opinion they are expressing. By only following 50 - 100 people you don't get enough content to make these filters very useful. While you raise good points and I do think it would be better if we could distinguish between following someone and being their friend better, but at the same time, the firehose of content has advantages too.