Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>]

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security curmudgeon wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Paul M. Moriarty wrote:
>
> : Cringely?  I agree.
> : 
> : http://twitter.com/cringely
> : 
> : He's what's referred to as a twitsnob.  1k followers but he only follows 
> : 11 ppl.
>
> Now that would be a neat set of statistics: the # of twitter users, and 
> how many each follow vs have following.

I have 243 followers and I'm only following 79 (a mix of security folks,
friends, and pastors from related churches)

On one of the Black SEO websites there is a thread about how you can use
Twitter to drive traffic to your ads on websites.  The fact that
everyone uses "tinyurl" or equivalent means people are accustomed to
going to any crap you send them, and the fact that its considered "rude"
by some people not to "follow back", means that the SEO crowd makes
money by having large followings.

My general rule of thumb with "follows" is to visit their page - see if
they post things I'm interested in, or just recite their lunch menu and
plane schedule - and then whether they are following dozens or
thousands.  If someone is following 1,000 people, they clearly aren't
reading what is posted, so they are probably just following me to bloat
their number, so I tend to block them.  If someone is following less
than 100, they might actually care what I think, but even then I only
"follow back" if they look interesting based on their posts.

I default to "device follow", so I get twittered to my phone - but then
when people go hugely off-topic for most of their posts (like Ryan
during baseball season, or Gadi during alcohol) I turn off the device
option.

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Gary Warner
Director of Research in Computer Forensics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
gar () cis uab edu            gar () askgar com
205.934.8620               205.422.2113
Blog = http://garwarner.blogspot.com/
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